Brand Upon the Brain!

“I'm going to go I'm going to go Guy Maddin on this., this is I remember buying this film Brand Upon the Brain! At Kim's video in the East Village, circa two, who's counting?, this is like Guy Maddin is a freak. Just watching this black and white like Bizarro world that he creates., I've definitely ripped him off as well. It's wild. It's wild in that in that sort of like full dream state. What am I looking at? But you but it feels very intimate at the same time. You're like, oh, I kno...”

“Brand upon the Brain! By Guy Maddin. When I was in film school, I was just like ripping him off nonstop. His whole thing is that he makes these films that feel like these lost films from the silent era or like early sound days. This film I saw in theaters with a gang of foley artists and a live orchestra and different people narrating, and I saw it with Udo Kier narrating, and it was maybe the best experience I've ever had in a movie theater.”