{"id":7621,"date":"2011-10-03T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2011-10-03T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:21:17","slug":"the-eye-like-a-strange-balloon-mounts-toward-infinity-a-film-by-guy-maddin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/10\/03\/the-eye-like-a-strange-balloon-mounts-toward-infinity-a-film-by-guy-maddin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity: A Film by Guy Maddin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"435\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=29062120&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0&amp;group_id=\" \/><embed width=\"580\" height=\"435\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=29062120&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0&amp;group_id=\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Canadian filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user4895266\">Guy Maddin<\/a> made this short film which is inspired by an 1882 illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Odilon_Redon\">Odilon Redon<\/a> that was in turn inspired by the writing of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_Allan_Poe\">Edgar Allan Poe<\/a>.\u00a0 It has a kind of wild sinister fantasy about it that fascinates me.\u00a0 I like the way Maddin builds little sets that end up looking almost like illustrations.\u00a0 He also does a quick visual quote of a great old French film called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%27Atalante\">L&#8217;Atalante<\/a> by Jean Vigo.\u00a0 This is a frightening and beautiful dream film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/EyeRedon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"EyeRedon\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/EyeRedon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin made this short film which is inspired by an 1882 illustration by Odilon Redon that was in turn inspired by the writing of Edgar Allan Poe.\u00a0 It has a kind of wild sinister fantasy about it that fascinates me.\u00a0 I like the way Maddin builds little sets that end up looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,114,109,81,1458,1639],"tags":[625,1822,2084],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-illustration","category-science-fiction","category-short-films","category-silent-film-2","tag-edgar-allen-poe","tag-guy-maddin","tag-odilon-redon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7625,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions\/7625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}