SUN OCT 6, 2024 12:00 PM THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD / BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! $17.00 Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Aero Theatre sponsored by NEON | Beyond Fest 2024 Q&As with filmmaker Guy Maddin and cinematographer Ben Kasulke. Moderated by Scott Foundas. Program begins with short “The Heart of the World” This event has passed Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP. * All fields are required First Name * Last Name * Email * Quantity * Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILMS: “The Heart of the World,” 2000, Dir. Guy Maddin, 6 Mins, Canada A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth’s core to save humanity. FORMAT: DCP THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, 2003, Dir. Guy Maddin, 99 Mins, IFC Films, Canada Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression in 1933, eccentric Baroness Lady Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) launches a campaign to find the saddest music in the world, and before long musicians from all over the globe are making their way to her Winnipeg home to try and win a prize of $25,000. When failed Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) and his amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros) arrive, they find themselves getting embroiled in the bizarre competition. FORMAT: DCP BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!, 2006, Dir. Guy Maddin, 99 Mins, Canada, USA This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin’s mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Guy Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother. FORMAT: DCP