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Cate Blanchett & Guy Maddin On The Experience of Artistic Flow, The Late David Lynch’s ‘Eraserhead’ & Their Paths Into The Film Industry — Rotterdam
Cate Blanchett and Guy Maddin shared about their paths into the film industry as well as their experiences of "flow" in making art, while at Rotterdam film fest, just after a festival screening of their film 'Rumours.'
So I was talking and I had these recurring dreams for years, and so my father’s actual death receded in time enough that I couldn’t quite remember his voice properly while I was awake.” Maddin shared that he also drew inspiration from Greek tragedies in his work — singling out “Electra” by Euripides as one that left a particularly sharp impression on him. Maddin shared that he calls the state of flow he sometimes feels in making art a kind of “narcotic tingle,” referring to some of Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov’s writings in this line of thought.
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