Movies: Guy Maddin

A woman sent is sent to an electric chair that reads the images of her mind....

It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no...

Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators...

A jovial shirtless man attempts to rouse a contingent of lethargic dancers to life in NUDE CABOOSE. His highjinks really get the deadbeats bustin' out until something unusual catches his eye. Dance floor seduction distilled into a fateful moment!...

A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash....

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting....

Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love’s darker aspects....

After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister....

Widow Paramo has lost her husband in the plague. Their daughter Dolores is considering suicide with El Muerto preparing himself to welcome her into the darkness. Paramo must triumph over Death in the boxing ring if she wishes to save both her husband...

A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini in the year of the centennial celebration of his birth.)...

Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of the digital age, this heretical director hailing from the snowy plains of Canada has spent 25 years ...

An impressionistic series of images inspired by "Tales From the Gimli Hospital"....

While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains. The music is touched by sadness and the emotions of the characters are no different. Nearer they beco...

Guy Maddin takes his dog Spanky out for his last walk with him at the lake....

A group of drowned men arise from Lake Winnipeg to individually visit the homes of lonely women. home. After various passionate trysts, the men grab trinkets and jewellery from the women's homes and and return to the waters of the lake....

A story about an aging crime family patriarch....

Only Dream Things was part of an installation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery for its centennial in 2012. Collects an assortment of Guy Maddin's own home films from his own youth with many paint on film techniques and digital effects....

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are ...

A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block. Strange things are transpiring of each of them on loop. As the eye attempts to take them all in, the murder soon seems entirely un...

Guided by the spirit of “The Cuadecuc Manifesto” (coined by co-director Evan Johnson and inspired by Pere Portabella’s 1970 experimental cult documentary, Cuadecuc, vampir), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton is a strange, stirring behind-the-scenes loo...