Tonight at 5 p.m., Winnipeg’s Jets host the Las Vegas Golden Knights in game one of the NHL Western Conference Final.
The original Jets played their hockey in the old Winnipeg Arena which was like a second home for filmmaker Guy Maddin's father and he brings that into play in his surrealist documentary, My Winnipeg (2007). The New York Times says My Winnipeg, "skates along an icy edge between dreams and lucidity, fact and fiction, cinema and psychotherapy." Hockey plays a role in the film that according to the filmmaker "melds personal history, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesizing." Maddin’s father, Charles “Chas” Maddin, was involved in the Winnipeg hockey scene for many decades and was general manager of the Winnipeg Maroons in 1964 when they became Canada’s Senior Men’s Hockey Champions after winning the Allen Cup in four straight games over the Woodstock Athletics. That season the amateur Maroons also played a series of highly competitive exhibition games against national squads from Russia, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the USA at the old Winnipeg Arena.
The trailer for Maddin's latest work about his hometown, Accidence, “packs at least a feature film’s worth of action into a sleek and compulsively rewatchable nine minutes,” says Variety. The short, made in one long take with collaborators Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, features music composed by Ensign Broderick. Almost a prairie ode to Hitchcock's Rear Window, Accidence, received its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February on a bill with The Green Fog (2017), another exploration of Hitchcockian themes.
