Commissioned by the BBC to create a short film inspired by a favorite work of art, Canadian avant-garde filmmaker, Guy Maddin, selected The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity, a charcoal sketch by the leading French Symbolist, Odilon Redon (1840-1916). Redon’s piece was part of a series of illustrations he created for Charles Baudelaire’s French translations of the works of Edgar Allen Poe.
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