Responding to an invitation-commission by the San Francisco FIlm Festival, one of the most imaginative contemporary filmmakers writes a love letter to the emblematic West Coast city, delivering his own take to the classic Alfred HItchcock masterpiece Vertigo. A truly visionary work about seeing and seeing again
The Green Fog
The Green Fog
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
- Editing: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
- Sound: John Gurdebeke
- Music: Jacob Garchik, Kronos Quartet
- Production: Extra Large Productions
- Producers: Evan Johnson, Guy Maddin
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color/B&W
- Production Country: USA, Canada
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 61΄
- Contact: The Festival Agency, info@thefestivalagency.com
- Awards/Distinctions: Golden Lady Harimaguada Best Film – Las Palmas FF 2018
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin is an installation artist, lecturer at Harvard, author, and filmmaker, the director or co-director of twelve feature-length movies, including The Forbidden Room (2015), My Winnipeg (2007), The Saddest Music in the World (2003). He has also mounted over 70 performances of his films worldwide featuring live elements – orchestra, sound effects, singing and narration. Since 2011 Maddin has collaborated with Galen and Evan Johnson under the banner of Development Ltd., their Winnipeg-based filmmaking collective.
Filmography
1992 Careful
1997 Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
2002 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2003 Cowards Bend the Knee
2003 The Saddest Music in the World
2007 My Winnipeg (doc)
2011 Keyhole
2014 Puberty (short, co-direction)
2015 The Forbidden Room (co-direction)
2017 The Green Fog (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)
1997 Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
2002 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2003 Cowards Bend the Knee
2003 The Saddest Music in the World
2007 My Winnipeg (doc)
2011 Keyhole
2014 Puberty (short, co-direction)
2015 The Forbidden Room (co-direction)
2017 The Green Fog (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)
Evan Johnson
Evan Johnson is a writer and filmmaker living in Winnipeg. He studied film and philosophy at the University of Manitoba and worked at Winnipeg's Rug Doctor chemical bottling plant before being discovered there by Guy Maddin. He co-directed his first feature, The Forbidden Room (2015), with Maddin, and since then has been writing/directing with Maddin and his brother.
Filmography
2014 Puberty (short, co-direction)
2015 The Forbidden Room (co-direction)
2017 The Green Fog (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)
2015 The Forbidden Room (co-direction)
2017 The Green Fog (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)
Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson is an filmmaker and designer based in Winnipeg, Canada. In 2012, he worked as production designer, title designer, and composer on The Forbidden Room, for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for production design/art direction. He has since gone on to co-direct Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015), The Green Fog (2017), Accidence (2017) and Stump the Guesser (2020) all with Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson.
Filmography
2017 The Green Fog (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2020 Thursday (short doc)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)
2018 Accidence (short, co-direction)
2020 Stump the Guesser (short, co-direction)
2020 The Rabbit Hunters (short, co-direction)
2020 Thursday (short doc)
2024 Rumours (co-direction)
