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Article Email the authorEmail the author  "I kind of like poking
around in my own little cesspool and every now and then making a
film," Canada's Guy Maddin recently told The New York Times. And
if by "cesspool" he means his mind - all those memories and
fantasies, dreams and nightmares - then that's a pretty good
description of what Maddin does. Like David Lynch, he's more
interested in the unconscious mind than the conscious mind, and
that includes what we might call cinema's unconscious mind, all
those weird snippets of film that come slithering to the surface
when you delve into the movie past. Maddin particularly loves
the years just before and after