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This year, Guy Maddin set a record when his latest visage, the gangster-spookhouse drama Keyhole , made TIFF’s Canada Top Ten beadroll . It was Maddin’s sixth time making the Canada’s Top Ten ranks, which has become something of a timeless honour. But Maddin’s placement, on both the features and shorts lists, seems to check the vitality of short filmmaking in Canada.
Here, short films aren’t solely calling cards directors leave en route to producing features. (Though, certainly, this does come off; like with that aesthetically and conceptually bloated short Patch Borough short from TIFF 2011 that is set to become an aesthetically and conceptually slender item face .) But, whether because of government subsidy, the NFB, the Oscar noms for animated, or the cultural grasp of filmmakers like Guy Maddin, short films have become an integral part of Canada’s cultural material. Well, the cinema part of it, anyways.
Source: A.V. Club New York