Manuelle Labor 17 years old

A woman with an oddly hairy belly gives birth to a pair of hands in Marie Losier’s giddily inventive "portrait" of filmmaker Guy Maddin, done as a collaboration between the two iconoclasts. A longtime fan of Maddin, Losier (best known for other inventive portraits of underground film icons like Tony Conrad and George Kuchar) hoped to document him as well; "I hate my voice and face," Maddin replied, and sent her Super-8 footage of his hands instead. Losier interwove the footage into her own distinct tale, shot like a surrealist 1920s silent film. A must for fans of Losier, Maddin and ingenious cinema in general, MANUELLE LABOR was completed for the Berlin Film Festival (where Maddin was the guest of honor). - Jason Sanders A collaboration film by Marie Losier and Guy Maddin. Two sisters, five brothers, a doctor and two nurses and the miraculous birth of a pair of hands, but whose hands?

Credits

Manuelle Labor Cast

Name	Character
Guy Maddin He was 50, now 68 years old
Marie Losier She was 35, now 52 years old
Juliana Francis She was 39, now 56 years old

Manuelle Labor Crew

Name	Department
Guy Maddin as Director. He was 50 (now 68) years old	Directing
Marie Losier as Director. She was 35 (now 52) years old	Directing