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THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
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A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.
The feature film The Forbidden Room stems from an ambitious interactive project the NFB, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson initiated back in 2012 called Seances. An installation, a film shoot and an interactive experience, Seances took as its inspiration the lost films of cinema history, but the result was an ecstatic hauting: lush, rapid and legion. Maddin's movie-ghosts burn bright, intermingle, and demand that you acknowledge both their absence and their multitude. The project began in 2012 at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris where Maddin shot 18 films, and culminated at the Phi Centre where the public was invited to attend the shoot that lasted for almost two weeks. A true act of cinematic spiritualism featuring several Montreal actors, Seances resulted in a total of 12 shorts filmed in front of a live audience over 13 days, from July 4 to 20, 2013. Seances will be released in 2015.
Synopsis
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
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