Galen: I think the producers saw The Forbidden Room at Sundance and liked the opening title sequence so they tracked me down and asked if I’d be interested.
How did you first become involved in the project? It’s an anthology film – six short stories from some very exciting filmmakers from all over the world. You've been busy! So let’s talk about Madly. Image set: "Coming Attractions" posters by The Long Weekend collective Or even better, that someone with more talent and money will adapt them into hit movies! View 7 images It’s my hope that we’ll eventually be able to adapt them into movies. Galen: We also banded together with a few other artists to make these fake movie posters for the Contact Photography Festival. And I helped Bill Morrison with the Dawson City: Frozen Time titles.
Then a found footage remake of Vertigo called The Green Fog, and a 10 minute short called Accidence. We also did a behind-the-scenes documentary about Hyena Road called Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton. Galen: We finished off Seances and put it online. What have you been up to creatively since then? When we last spoke The Forbidden Room had just bowed at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and the interactive project Seances was still in the works. Like a love song or a sonnet, these titles are a welcome reminder of things that are and things that were. It’s a messy fusion, a raucous combination of elements that feels both jarring and familiar, as it should. Images and type melt into one another, a pageant of quivering torsos, bright shining stars, and beating hearts all pulsing to the rhythm. With a generous hand from the inimitable sounds of PJ Harvey, Madly’s title sequence attempts to do just that: encapsulate that explosive, unquantifiable thing. To introduce this multilingual, multi-part tale of love, infatuation, and romance, the global co-production turned to Canadian title designer Galen Johnson ( The Forbidden Room) to create a title sequence that would capture the feeling, the idea of love – and act as the connective tissue to tie the entire piece together. Madly is an international anthology film bringing together six stories of love – in many different forms – from six very different filmmakers: Gael García Bernal, Anurag Kashyap, Natasha Khan, Sebastián Silva, Sion Sono, and Mia Wasikowska. Few others get the opportunity to meaningfully weigh in on this subject on screen, least of all the title designer. In the comparatively brief history of the moving image, putting that emotion in motion has usually been the purview of filmmakers and actors. Poets, painters, philosophers, songwriters, and scribes have long attempted to put love into words or music or images, with varying degrees of success. upcomingregionalsection.cms?parentid=61017241&genere=*:* /upcomingregionalsection.What is that you’re feeling? The love of another – be it a person or a god – is one of the primary drivers of creative output in this world.
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