Maddin's first short film (as director, writer, producer, and cinematographer) was The Dead Father, a forty-minute black-and-white film about a young man whose father dies but continues to visit his family and disapprove of his son's life. Maddin began shooting The Dead Father in 1982 and finished the film in 1985.
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Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or father:
“Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how to be men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)