Odin's Shield Maiden
d. Guy Maddin, 2007
Still haven't gotten around to watching any of Maddin's feature films, but his shorts continue to astound me. His latest, a 5-minute experiment titled Odin's Shield Maiden is quite beautiful if not all that thematically engaging. Essentially, it's a series of black-and-white shots of several women mourning the drowning of a guy named Mundi near the shore. The photography is, needless to say, stunning, and Maddin's lyrical rhythms are spot on. Still no Heart of the World (2001)--or even My Dad is 100 Years Old (2005)--but wonderful to watch, anyway.
