 a homage to the san francisco film per excellence alfred hitchcock s vertigo built by using footage from hundreds of different films set in this same city from hollywood classics to experimental pieces commercial hits and tv episodes don t miss the end credits festival for a powerful dive into high and low culture alike rather than organizing the materials as a poetic city symphony or a conventional documentary directors guy maddin evan johnson and galen johnson extract tropes and plot points from vertigo in order to sketch a narrative that examines how the phantoms of hitchcock s film permeate everything including chuck norris movies even if in an uncanny fashion watching the mad assemblage executed in the green fog one would think that there s something alien and otherworldly informing the fragmentary resonances the stuttering dialogues the wild reworkings embeddings repetitions and substitutions executed in this irreverent and hilarious remake of vertigo is it by chance that san francisco and science fiction share the same initials what is that green fog slipping through the images is it a shade from vertigo a trace of contamination the smoke of weed cristina alvarez lopez evan johnson galen johnson guy maddin  