Seances (film)

Seances is an upcoming interactive project by filmmaker and installation artist Guy Maddin and The National Film Board of Canada, combining a film shoot, an experience and an installation, which will subsequently become an interactive work. Maddin began the project in 2012 in Paris, France, shooting footage forfilms at the Centre Georges Pompidou this installation was titled Spiritismes, the French word for seances, leading to press confusion about the project title and continued shooting footage for an additionalfilms at the Phi Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The film shoots themselves were presented as art installation projects, during which Maddin, along with the cast and crew, held a sance during which Maddin invited the spirit of a lost photoplay to possess them.

Maddin began with the idea of shooting adaptations of lost films and originally conceived the project as making titlefortitle remakes of specific lost films but altered this plan in favour of producing original material as the project developed. Maddin completedfilms to show as installation loops for Noah Cowan and the Toronto International Film Festivals Bell Lightbox theatre for this 2010 Hauntings project.At the SXSW 2012 festival, Maddin announced that he had begun production on the Seances project, for which he would shoot one hundred short films within a hundredday span, at locations in Canada, France, and the United States. However, Maddin abandoned this approach to the project to focus more fully on original script creation, partnering with writers Evan Johnson and Robert Kotyk, with additional writing by Maddins wife Kim Morgan and American poet John Ashbery. ........

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