Guy Maddin’s “Night Mayor”
“Criterion favorite Guy Maddin continues to make his own kind of music with his latest, Night Mayor, a fourteen-minute work that the National Film Board of Canada website has been so kind as to post in its entirety. In the movie, made for the NFB’s seventieth anniversary, a mad inventor tries to harness the heavenly ethers of the aurora borealis and distill them into music and motion pictures. Naturally, this results in a film of psychotropic, collagelike beauty, one that vividly illustrates its own concept of ‘ordinary things combined and made miraculous.’”
