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Guy Maddin: First Floor: Hauntings I
13 Apr – 5 May 2012
Installation view. Photo: Anders Sune Berg
To kick off First Floor, the phantoms of film history will be occupying Overgaden in a presentation of the internationally-acclaimed video artist and experimental film director, Guy Maddin.
Guy Maddin is Canadian, and has been presented at museums and film festivals all over the world. With this installation at Overgaden, his works are being shown for the first time in an art context in Denmark.
Overgaden is presenting Hauntings I (2010), a site-specific installation consisting of eleven short films. Distributed across the first floor, the work will take shape as a three-dimensional collage in which the viewer can move among and around the visual ghosts comprised by the films. Maddin draws his visual inspiration from the early silent films, as well as from surrealist and symbolist painting. The captivating aesthetics of spinning film reels and flickering images have become Maddin’s stylistic signature, in interaction with absurd scenarios and exalted melodramas.