- Country: USA
- Genres: Fantasy, Short
- Release: 2007-02-02
- Director: Marie Losier
- Writers: Marie Losier
- Language: English
- Stars: Juliana Francis , Marie Losier , Guy Maddin
- Runtime: 10 min
- Awards: 1 nomination
- AKA: Manuelle Labor , Manuelle Labor (United States of America)
- Plot:
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
- IMDB:tt1553031
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