Maddin served as a 2011 Director-in-Residence, led a master class with students, and, screened a selection of shorts from his project Hauntings, an ambitious recreation and re-imagining of 1,024 lost and unrealized films by classic directors. Motivated since childhood by a preternatural affection for the ideas of haunting and remembrance, Maddin immediately connected with the destroyed and dashed works. The idea that these films were gone really tortured me, Maddin said, so I set out to create echoes from a future that was never allowed to happen.