SPIRITISMES
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson

Showing in the Phi Centre’s second-floor exhibition space, this cinematic installation consists of footage loops from the film’s principal photography sessions. Beautiful, abstract and ectoplasmic, these atmospheric visual projections feature actors who move, stretch and seemingly torture and pleasure themselves in a silent void; a paranormal afterlife, explains the film’s director Guy Maddin. Co-directed by Evan Johnson, The Forbidden Room tells interconnected tales of a submarine crew,...