Brand upon the Brain!
Brand upon the Brain! (2006) is an avant-garde silent film directed by Guy Maddin and shot in Seattle with local actors. Maddin directed the film from a script co-written with George Toles, shooting over nine days and editing over three months, on an estimated budget of $40,000.
Plot
Guy Maddin (played by Erik Steffen Maahs as an adult, and Sullivan Brown as a child), returns to Black Notch, a deserted island on which stands a lighthouse that was his family home, an orphanage run by his parents, to slap a fresh coat of paint on the lighthouse. The film is divided into twelve chapters, each of which is a flashback that Guy's ancestral house-painting has brought to the fore of his memory.
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author | Guy Maddin |
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director | Guy Maddin |
editor | John Gurdebeke |
keywords | abandon adopt back to life bury connect contemplating suicide deserted island domineering mother eat family home flood foster care jumper cable meet murder paint spin the bottle twin brother young girl |
musicBy | Jason Staczek |
producer | Amy Jacobson |
productionCompany | Seattle Classic Films |
theme | avant-garde and experimental race silent |