Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. A film companion by Guy Maddin. This is the Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cineaste planant, and it is not the Winnipeg of tourist brochures. When the iconoclastic auteur of The Saddest Music in the World decided to tackle the subject of his hometown, it could only have become a Odocu-fantasia, a melange of personal history, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesizing. At the heart of the film MY WINNIPEG is Maddin's voiceover, told in his infamous purplish prose. With the book, venture deeper into the mind of Maddin with marginal digressions, stills, outtakes, childhood photos, animations, diary entries, collages, archival images and nascent treatments. There is a hand-drawn map of Maddin's personal landmarks.
