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Cowards bend the knee
Uniform Title
Cowards bend the knee (Motion picture)
Title
Cowards bend the knee [videorecording] / Zeitgeist Films and the Power Plant present ; written and directed by Guy Maddin ; produced by Philip Monk.
Edition
Standard format.
Published
New York : Zeitgeist Films, 2005, c2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Notes
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation released in 2003.
Special features: audio commentary by Guy Maddin ; Love-Chaunt workbooks ; behind-the-scenes for The brand upon the brain ; photo archive ; artistic statement ; chracter sketches ; missing script excerpt ; essay "A note on hands".
Photographer, Guy Maddin ; editor, John Gurdebeke.
Silent with English intertitles.
Summary
Guy Maddin, hockey player for the Winnipeg Maroons, takes his pregnant girlfriend to a beauty salon that moonlights as an abortion clinic and leaves her (mid-procedure) for the salon owner's daughter. He then discovers that his new girlfriend can't be with a man until she avenges her father's murder.
Variant and related titles
Also known as: Blue hands
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 14, 2005
Credits
Photographer, Guy Maddin ; editor, John Gurdebeke.
Cast
Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Tara Birtwhistle, Henry Mogatas.
System details note
DVD; region 1.
Audience
Not rated.
Videorecording number
Z1068 Zeitgeist
Subjects
Also listed under
Power Plant (Art gallery)
Zeitgeist Films.
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