Screen/Society: The Green Fog (2017) + Q&A w/ dir. Guy Maddin
"The Green Fog" (dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson; 2017, 62 min, English, Color/B&W)
Guy Maddin and the brothers Johnson team up for a 'parallel-universe version' of VERTIGO, deliriously recreating the legendary Hitchcock film from a variety of high, low, and long-forgotten Bay Area sources. THE GREEN FOG is a wickedly fun feat of cinematic scholarship, and an uncannily original film experience that promises to set brains a-buzzing.
-- Viewing link (goes live at 7PM on 10/1): https://www.twitch.tv/screensociety
-- Stay on our Twitch channel after the film for a live Q&A w/ Guy Maddin!
"It's not so much an assemblage as it is a conjuring. You don't just watch these clips - you see through and between them. The juxtapositions create vital, cosmic connections." - Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice
Director Statement:
Whether or not you've seen Hitchcock's VERTIGO, the sadistic master's internecine engagement with the male gaze, we want you to get lost in the mysteries and delights we found in making our own adaptation. Our medium is footage repurposed from movies and television shot exclusively in San Francisco. Our version, shaped for our own pleasure out of newly defamiliarized material, is more a VERTIGO "shape" that somewhat rhymes with, occasionally reconfigures, and sometimes flips like a fried egg the savagery and victimhood of the annihilating original. Sit back and let the emulsions, pixels and taxidermy dust wash over your eyeballs!
