“Nobody dies of love, do they?”
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. Poets, painters, philosophers, songwriters, and scribes have long attempted to put love into words or music or images, with varying degrees of success. In the comparatively brief history of the moving image, putting that emotion in motion has usually been the purview of filmmakers and actors. Few others get the opportunity to meaningfully weigh in on this subject on screen, least of all the title designer.
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. 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.
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. Images and type melt into one another, a pageant of quivering torsos, bright shining stars, and beating hearts all pulsing to the rhythm. It’s a messy fusion, a raucous combination of elements that feels both jarring and familiar, as it should. Like a love song or a sonnet, these titles are a welcome reminder of things that are and things that were. A fitting place to start.
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. What have you been up to creatively since then?
Galen: We finished off Seances and put it online. We also did a behind-the-scenes documentary about Hyena Road called Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton. Then a found footage remake of Vertigo called The Green Fog, and a 10 minute short called Accidence. And I helped Bill Morrison with the Dawson City: Frozen Time titles.
Galen: We also banded together with a few…
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