A 12-minute fever dream where a crime family strips bare—literally, emotionally, spiritually.
Direction
Maddin's signature faux-silent-film aesthetic cranked to eleven.
Production
Deliberately artificial sets that feel like haunted dollhouses.
Acting
Louis Negin's naked ghost commits fully to the bit.
Director
Guy Maddin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot for the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival's 'Preludes' program, where directors created short films from audience suggestions.
Maddin's entire filmography interrogates Canadian identity through fractured memory—this is his mob movie as collective nightmare.
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