Manuelle Labor (2007)

• 55%
• 2007
• Juliana Francis
• Marie Losier
• Guy Maddin

A woman with an oddly hairy belly gives birth to a pair of hands, Marie Losier s giddily inventive "portrait" du réalisateur Guy Maddin, done as a collaboration between the two iconoclasts. A longtime fan of Maddin, Losier (best known for other inventive portraits of underground film icônes like Tony Conrad and George Kuchar) hoped to document him as well; "I hate my voice and face," Maddin replied, and sent her Super-8 footage of his hands instead. Losier interwove the métrage into her own distinct tale, shot like a surréaliste 1920s silent film. A must for fans of Losier, Maddin and ingenious cinema en general, MANUEL de LABORATOIRE was completed for the Berlin Film Festival (where Maddin ce que the guest of honor). - Jason Sanders collaboration A film by Marie Losier and Guy Maddin. Two sisters, five brothers, a doctor and two nurses and the miraculous birth of a pair of hands, but whose hands?