“MY WINNIPEG [is] one of my favorite pieces of ‘poetic cinema,’ cinema which, to use Maya Deren’s words, ‘is preoccupied with the ‘depths and qualities’ of a moment. Films which estrange us of ‘real’ reality, while invoking recognizably true human concerns—mourning, desire, recollection, dread, precarity, etc.–while remaining riddled with gaps and uncertainties and strung with webs of correspondence.”
—C. Rees

Guy Maddin channels the ghosts of silent cinema and the real and imagined specters of his hometown. An impressionistic, psychogeographical map through the “heart of the continent” and its director, this is a “documentary” by one of cinema’s greatest poets. Join us on Thursday, December 10, for a conversation with poet C. Rees about the film, poetic cinema, and how it influenced their debut collection, NOCTUARY. Presented in 35mm.

ABOUT C. REES
C. Rees (they/them) is a queer poet and bookseller whose work contends with contamination and complicity, emergent ecologies, hauntings, and porousness. Their first poetry collection, NOCTUARY, will be published by Host Publications in 2026. C. was raised in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Lenni-Lenape land, and currently lives in Austin, TX, on Comanche, Lipan Apache, Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, and Jumanos land. They hold an MFA in Poetry from the New Writers Project at UT Austin. They are ideologically and materially committed to a free Palestine.