Matthew Rankin's The Twentieth Century is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting February 15, 2021 in the series Festival Focus: Berlinale.The Twentieth Century is my first feature. As with all my short films, directing this film was akin to willfully relaunching the Hindenberg knowing full well that it’s going to blow up. Like a rutting salmon hurling himself ridiculously upstream, yearning to actually Die in the moment of his most creative outpouring, the images I am chasing are so difficult that they might well exceed my reproductive competence. Such was my process on this movie. The resultant film is an unbridled surrealist epic, an insurgent attack upon the biopic form and a lament for 21st Century nihilism. It is also an encyclopaedic effort to irritate my fellow Canadians.The film takes as its subject the youthful obsessions of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King...
- 2/14/2021
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