Burrowing Inward: Short Films by Jacques Drouin and Guy Maddin

This selection of works from the Walker’s Ruben/Bentson Film and Video Study Collection showcases two short pieces about artists entering the worlds depicted in their art. In Canadian Jacques Drouin’s brilliant pinscreen animation Mindscape (1976, 8 minutes), a painter saunters through the landscape on his canvas. Fellow Canadian Guy Maddin’s Odilon Redon (or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity) (1995, 5 minutes) plays with the imagery of Redon’s famous drawing as a steam train hurtling about in a surreal scenario populated with grotesque and seductive characters.