Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)

Archangel (1990)

Cowards Bend The Knee (2003)

Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)

Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)

Sombra Dolorosa (2004)

Archangel (1990)

Odin’s Shield Maiden (2006)

This year our Advent Calendar features intertitles from the films of Guy Maddin. Here at Hooting Yard, we revere Maddin, the finest living film director and a true original. Many of his short films are available on YouTube, and you are urged to go and watch them at once. His feature films make pretty much everything else in the cinema look impossibly dull and formulaic. Maddin is prolific – I could quite easily have chosen twenty-five different intertitles for this calendar. Perhaps next year …

Today’s intertitle is from Odin’s Shield Maiden (2006).

Two Red Brow Finches. Their brows are red.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Rainbow Bee Eater. A pair of them, in fact.

Gosh, look! A Mistletoe Bird!

This, apparently, is a Nutmeg Mannikin

The Intermediate Egret

A Forest Kingfisher