A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block. Strange things are transpiring of each of them on loop. As the eye attempts to take them all in, the murder soon seems entirely unimportant.
현란한 흑백 화면의 사용이 특징인 가이 매딘 감독이 고향인 위니펙을 소재로 만든 다큐 판타지. 감독이 성장하며 겪었던 도시의 역사와 개인적인 경험이 맞물려 전개되는데, 무채색의 꿈을 보는 듯한 모호한 화면들로 이루어져 있다. 빠른 화면전환과 히스테리컬한 클로즈업은 긴장감을 고조시키고, 때때로 등장하는 신화적인 장면들은 도시의 역사를 좇는 다큐멘터리임에도 불구하고 장르적 경계를 모호하게 만든다.
* 2007 토론토영화제 최우수캐나다영화상
(제9회 전주국제영화제)
A serial killer preys on prostitutes from the mean streets of a small, mid-west city as the police turn a blind eye. With an insatiable sexual appetite, the killer brutalizes his victims and leaves their bodies at Moon Lake outside of town. A voice inside the killer's head commands him to kill, his victims beg for death. John Martin Crawford is only too happy to oblige. But Moon Lake happens to be a spiritual holy ground for the local Native Americans, and soon the victims' ghosts are haunting both family members and complete strangers in desperate pleas for justice so their souls may rest. A supernatural story that reminds us the dead are not powerless.
A medieval cult travels to the 20th century and kills people in an attempt to bring about the end of the world. The policeman must stop them by summoning the spirit of Nostradamus.
The Exquisite Corpse is an exciting and unique collaborative film project, involving a group of eleven filmmakers contributing different segments in one movie. The linkage of the individual segments was achieved by applying an old game used by Surrealist artists in the 1920's to explore the collective imagination. That game, called "Exquisite Corpse", was first applied in literary form by a group of poets each supplying one line of the total poem. In drawing, a group of artists would take turns drawing one part of a human figure, without seeing what the others had contributed.
