Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Guy Maddin and released in 1995.[1] The film stars Jim Keller and Caelum Vatnsdal as Keller and Caelum, a father and son who compete for the affections of Berenice (Brandy Bayes), a woman they have rescued from a train crash.

Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
Directed byGuy Maddin
Produced byDiane Freeman
Keith Griffiths
Written byGuy Maddin
StarringJim Keller
Caelum Vatnsdal
Brandy Bayes
CinematographyTerry Reimer
Production
company
Guy Maddin Productions
Release date
1995
Running time
4 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film was commissioned by the BBC as part of a series in which filmmakers were asked to create short films inspired by other artists. Maddin chose French painter Odilon Redon, focusing in particular on The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, one of the charcoal illustrations Redon did for the first published French translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.[2]

The film had its theatrical premiere at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] where it received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film award jury.[4]

References
  1. David Church, Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin. University of Manitoba Press, 2009. ISBN 9780887553547. Chapter "Thoroughly Modern Maddin" by David L. Pike, pp. 96-118.
  2. William Beard, Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin. University of Toronto Press, 2010. ISBN 9781442610668. pp. 363-365.
  3. Geoff Pevere, "Canada's radical cinema". The Globe and Mail, September 9, 1995.
  4. "Audiences back Antonia's Line at Toronto festival". Ottawa Citizen, September 18, 1995.


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