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Night Mayor
Description
Winnipeg, 1939. A Bosnian immigrant to Canada, Nihad Ademi, conceives of a way
to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of
his vast and beloved adopted land from coast to coast to coast. From his
tenement apartment-cum-laboratory, with the help of his large and eager
family, Nihad perfects his device and prepares to bring Canada – or at least
images of Canada, from the fighting beaver on – to its own people. From
directly in the centre of the country, a startling broadcast emanates like
ripples in a formerly placid pond.
Incredibly, due to the unfathomable powers of the Northern Lights, the device
begins projecting images that do not even exist – images plumbed first from
the depths of Nihad Ademi’s subconscious mind, and presently from the group
consciousness of the whole citizenry of Canada.
However, all of this does not rest easy with the government. They stage a raid
on Nihad’s laboratory in an effort to prevent the dissemination of unregulated
patriotic imagery. The climactic donnybrook between cops and family leads to
the tragic suspension of this remarkable method of broadcast, and relegates
Nihad Ademi to the footnotes of Canadian history.
2009, 13 min 53 s
Awards
Grand Prize of the Lab Competition- with a cash prize of 3500 euros
International Short Film Festival
February 4 to 12 2011, Clermont-Ferrand - France
Best Experimental Short
South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW)
March 12 to 20 2010, Austin - USA
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