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Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993) (2006)

Genre : Documentary, Comedy

Runtime : 52M

Director : Matthew Rankin, Walter Forsberg

Synopsis

A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg's civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own low-budget, lo-fi TV advertising produced between 1975 and 1992.

Actors

Bea Broda
Bea Broda
Self

Crews

Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin
Director
Walter Forsberg
Walter Forsberg
Director

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