Guy Maddin Movies

short cine-essay by Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin

Film created for inclusion on "Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse", a collection of short films built around the music of indie rock band Sparklehorse.

A dream-inspired stream-of-consciousness download charting the trace infection lines Trump’s presence provokes in the minds of many.

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

An adaptation of an unrealized script by Jean Vigo (Les lignes de la main), starring his late daughter, the critic, programmer, and actress Luce Vigo

A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini...

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on...

Adaptation of Moholy-Nagy's unrealised Once a Chicken, made with the students at Béla Tarr's film factory.

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...

Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect.

A surreal short film featuring a zookeeper with a large moustache.

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...

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night continued.

Repudiated TV movie directed by Guy Maddin. Rumored to have been destroyed "in a black magic ceremony."

A jovial shirtless man attempts to rouse a contingent of lethargic dancers to life in NUDE CABOOSE. His highjinks really get the deadbeats bustin'...

Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators

The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

A tale of lust and bestiality set in a zoo. Delmas, the zookeeper, is obsessively in love with a bizarre carrion-creature, while his daughter Dol...

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