36. Guy Maddin on 'Rumours' and the Collapsing World Order

Guy Maddin, director of My Winnipeg, The Saddest Music in the World, and Brand Upon the Brain is a filmmaker who seemingly operates by no rules and often merges the surreal, the traditional, and the experimental. The idea of discomfort at the merger of traditional ideas with the inexplicable, of the familiar with the bizarre, is both true of his style and also the substance of his latest film, Rumours—which he directed with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson. Available now on video on demand, the film follows a G-7 meeting between leaders from the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the U.K in the midst of an apocalyptic event that leaves them alone in the woods, having to fend for themselves without any of their systems of support. This week's show is a conversation with Maddin about both the construction of the movie but also its context as an artifact of a world in transition, whether its leaders want to admit it or not.

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