A documentary about a city’s history and the director’s personal history, created by the Canadian director Guy Maddin, who was commissioned to make a film about his hometown of Winnipeg. My Winnipeg is an autobiographical film that combines records, memories, and imagination; it is also a record of a city full of anecdotes that cannot be verified— Maddin described this film as a “docu-fantasia.” The director who aims to investigate the secrets of the frozen, black-and-white city of Winnipeg and his family falls asleep on the train. And thus begins a journey to Winnipeg that resembles the dream of a somnambulist. Fast and flashy editing, paranoid close-ups, staged poses, intense voiceovers, and psychodrama- like reenactments continue, and interestingly all the attempts by the film to return to the origin of the film age with primitive techniques and experiments in this digital age put My Winnipeg at the forefront of modern documentaries. (KANG Sowon)