Brand Upon the Brain!

Brand Upon the Brain! (2007) is a Canadian film by Guy Maddin you can watch online on iFILM. A man named Guy returns to the island where his parents ran an orphanage, called back by his dying mother to repaint the lighthouse. What he finds are memories he hasn't finished with.

Shot in silent-era black-and-white with live narration, the film moves through childhood trauma, a detective thread involving strange scars on the orphans' heads, a father conducting experiments underground, and a mother who surveys everything from her lighthouse perch. Isabella Rossellini plays the mother. Maddin built this as autobiography refracted through nightmare — it doesn't explain itself, and that's the point. Stream Brand Upon the Brain! (2007) online on iFILM.