Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

Nacimiento : 1956-02-28, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Guy Maddin, CM OM (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films which has solidified his popularity and acclaim in alternative film circles. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada's most well-known and celebrated film-makers. Maddin has directed eleven feature films and numerous short films, in addition to publishing three books and creating a host of installation art projects. A number of Maddin's recent films began as or developed from installation art projects, and his books also relate to his film work. Maddin has been the subject of much critical praise and academic attention, including two books of interviews with Maddin and two book-length academic studies of his work. Maddin was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, in 2012.[2] Maddin is Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, 2015–16, at Harvard University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guy Maddin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Guy Maddin
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Películas

Horse Brothers
Anton the Horse (voice)
Two paranoid brothers are consumed with murderous fantasies after a horse convinces them that they are each others’ enemies. Starring Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, Forbidden Room) and Milos Mitrovic (Tapeworm, Stump the Guesser).
The Rabbit Hunters
Screenplay
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.)
The Rabbit Hunters
Director
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.)
Stump the Guesser
Writer
After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.
Stump the Guesser
Director
After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.
J.T. LeRoy Engañando a Hollywood
Reader
La trama sigue a JT LeRoy, una mujer que pretendió ser un hombre que se identifica como transexual, engañando a los ricos y famosos en Hollywood, el mundo de la moda y los círculos de la elite literaria. La joven Savannah Knoop se pasó seis años fingiendo ser el conocido autor Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy.
Accidence
Writer
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 unimportant.
Accidence
Director
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 unimportant.
The Green Fog
Director
A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada. Tales outlines the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the national filmmaking scene. Packed with rare archival footage, dynamic film excerpts, and hilarious interviews, this documentary traces the history of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group. We hear candid behind the scenes stories that illuminate the storied rise of acclaimed filmmakers like John Paizs (Crime Wave), Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, My Winnipeg) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (We’re Talking Vulva, Good Citizen, Betty Baker) and Caroline Monnet (Ikwe). Often mired in controversy, the Film Group has been acclaimed at film festivals around the world – attested to by several Toronto film luminaries in the film – for subversive, original filmmaking. This documentary continues that tradition of bold, exuberant work.
Trump Dreams
A dream-inspired stream-of-consciousness download charting the trace infection lines Trump’s presence provokes in the minds of many.
Seances
Director
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 conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of loss within film. All the sequences pay homage to lost silent films from the early day of cinema. Seances is nostalgic but it is also frequently hilarious. Part of the joy and sadness of Seances is that many possible narratives are created but they can be only viewed once before they disappear forever.
The Amazed Spectator
Himself
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?
El cuarto prohibido
Music
La tripulación de un submarino, una partida de temibles bandidos del bosque, un cirujano famoso y un batallón de niños soldados. Todos reciben más de lo que esperaban, ya que se abren camino hacia las ideas progresistas sobre la vida y el amor.
El cuarto prohibido
Writer
La tripulación de un submarino, una partida de temibles bandidos del bosque, un cirujano famoso y un batallón de niños soldados. Todos reciben más de lo que esperaban, ya que se abren camino hacia las ideas progresistas sobre la vida y el amor.
El cuarto prohibido
Director
La tripulación de un submarino, una partida de temibles bandidos del bosque, un cirujano famoso y un batallón de niños soldados. Todos reciben más de lo que esperaban, ya que se abren camino hacia las ideas progresistas sobre la vida y el amor.
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton
Director
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 look at Paul Gross’s new feature, Hyena Road. Shot on location at CFB Shilo near Brandon, Manitoba, and in Aqaba, Jordan, the film mixes deep contrast black-and-white expressionism with wry and raw western revisionism reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, as it summons unwieldy, psychedelic energy from the main event. [TIFF]
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
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 transposing the uncommon and the uncanny onto screens over-saturated with naturalistic imagery. A lover of primitive cinema, he has cunningly summoned the light-and-shadow techniques and experimentations of the Golden Age of film to resuscitate a unique cinematographic language which plays with the spectator’s unconscious by means of visual trickery as disturbing as it is absurd. In an attitude as playful at that Maddin’s films this documentary follows the mediumistic experiments of this master of illusion, filmed during the ‘’spirit’’ shootings he presented in Europe.
Once a Chicken
Director
Adaptation of Moholy-Nagy's unrealised Once a Chicken, made with the students at Béla Tarr's film factory.
Lines of the Hand
Director
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
Louis Riel for Dinner
Narrator
Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.
Colours
Director
short cine-essay by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson
Puberty
Director
short cine-essay by Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin
The Hall Runner
Director
A three minute segment featuring the titular item
Elms
Director
A short produced for the Criterion Collection's release of Guy Maddin's 'My Winnipeg'.
Cold
Director
Maddin’s frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and Cold, each representing a visual exploration of a specific theme.
Invisible World
Director
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
Only Dream Things
Director
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.
La casa de los horrores
Producer
Ghangster y el padre inútil, Ulysses Pick, se embarca en un viaje inusual a través de su casa.
La casa de los horrores
Screenplay
Ghangster y el padre inútil, Ulysses Pick, se embarca en un viaje inusual a través de su casa.
La casa de los horrores
Director
Ghangster y el padre inútil, Ulysses Pick, se embarca en un viaje inusual a través de su casa.
Sinclair
Director
A four minute film created for the opening of the TIFF Bell Lightbox
How to Take a Bath
Director
Legendary poet John Ashbery scripted this absurdist step-by-step guide to bathing, excerpted from Guy Maddin's feature THE FORBIDDEN ROOM and restored to its original form as a stand-alone film.
It Came from Kuchar
Self
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 budget" films and with their uniquely enchanting spirits.
Night Mayor
Director
Winnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his vast and beloved adopted land from coast to coast to coast.
Experiments in Terror 3
Director
The third in the series of experimental "horror" features, this collection features the shorts The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase (1999) by Cary Burtt, J.X. Williams' Satan Claus (1975), Jason Bognacki's Loma Lynda: The Red Door (2008), Terror! (2007) by Ben Rivers, Mike Kuchar's Born of the Wind (1961), and a collaboration from Guy Maddin and Marie Losier called Manuelle Labor (2007). While not featured in the program, an extra includes the short It Gets Worse (2008) by Clifton Childree.
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
Director
A woman sent is sent to an electric chair that reads the images of her mind.
The Little White Cloud That Cried
Director
The Little White Cloud That Cried, made in tribute to underground filmmaker Jack Smith, and described as: “Goddesses unharnessing the power of the sea and putting it into a whole new element as they engaged in orgiastic battles and whoopla.” —cinematical.com
Glorious
Writer
A story about an aging crime family patriarch.
Glorious
Director
A story about an aging crime family patriarch.
Footsteps
Cinematography
Short documentary revealing how the sound effects were created for Maddin's film "Brand Upon the Brain".
97 Percent True
Director
Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators
97 Percent True
Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators
Footsteps
Director
Short documentary revealing how the sound effects were created for Maddin's film "Brand Upon the Brain".
It's My Mother's Birthday Today
Director
Guy Maddin directed this short biopic on the castrato known as the Manitoba Meadowlark, Dov Houle, who performed on tour with the film “Brand Upon the Brain!”
Death of the Reel
Himself
Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect.
Spanky: To the Pier and Back
Director
Guy Maddin takes his dog Spanky out for his last walk with him at the lake.
My Winnipeg
Producer
Éste pseudo-documental surrealista es un homenaje de Guy Maddin a su ciudad natal: Winnipeg (Manitoba). (FILMAFFINITY)
My Winnipeg
Narrator (voice)
Éste pseudo-documental surrealista es un homenaje de Guy Maddin a su ciudad natal: Winnipeg (Manitoba). (FILMAFFINITY)
My Winnipeg
Writer
Éste pseudo-documental surrealista es un homenaje de Guy Maddin a su ciudad natal: Winnipeg (Manitoba). (FILMAFFINITY)
My Winnipeg
Director
Éste pseudo-documental surrealista es un homenaje de Guy Maddin a su ciudad natal: Winnipeg (Manitoba). (FILMAFFINITY)
Brand Upon the Brain!
Writer
A Guy lo invita su madre a pintar el faro de la isla Black Notch, donde se encuentra el orfanato en que se crió hace treinta años. Es la primera vez que vuelve a este lugar tan lleno de recuerdos para él: su hermana adolescente, su mojigata madre, su padre científico y su propia juventud carente de estímulos; un caleidoscopio de imágenes memorables: un aquelarre en el pantano, la misteriosa marca de nacimiento de su madre, códigos y lugares de encuentro secretos. Además hay dos detectives que tratan de esclarecer la causa de las heridas sufridas en la cabeza por los antiguos cuidadores de los enigmáticos y malévolos padres de Guy.
Brand Upon the Brain!
Director
A Guy lo invita su madre a pintar el faro de la isla Black Notch, donde se encuentra el orfanato en que se crió hace treinta años. Es la primera vez que vuelve a este lugar tan lleno de recuerdos para él: su hermana adolescente, su mojigata madre, su padre científico y su propia juventud carente de estímulos; un caleidoscopio de imágenes memorables: un aquelarre en el pantano, la misteriosa marca de nacimiento de su madre, códigos y lugares de encuentro secretos. Además hay dos detectives que tratan de esclarecer la causa de las heridas sufridas en la cabeza por los antiguos cuidadores de los enigmáticos y malévolos padres de Guy.
Odin's Shield Maiden
Cinematography
Odin's Shield Maiden
Director
Manuelle Labor
Director
A woman with an oddly hairy belly gives birth to a pair of hands in Marie Losier’s giddily inventive "portrait" of filmmaker Guy Maddin, done as a collaboration between the two iconoclasts. A longtime fan of Maddin, Losier (best known for other inventive portraits of underground film icons like Tony Conrad and George Kuchar) hoped to document him as well; "I hate my voice and face," Maddin replied, and sent her Super-8 footage of his hands instead. Losier interwove the footage into her own distinct tale, shot like a surrealist 1920s silent film. A must for fans of Losier, Maddin and ingenious cinema in general, MANUELLE LABOR was completed for the Berlin Film Festival (where Maddin was the guest of honor). - Jason Sanders A collaboration film by Marie Losier and Guy Maddin. Two sisters, five brothers, a doctor and two nurses and the miraculous birth of a pair of hands, but whose hands?
Manuelle Labor
A woman with an oddly hairy belly gives birth to a pair of hands in Marie Losier’s giddily inventive "portrait" of filmmaker Guy Maddin, done as a collaboration between the two iconoclasts. A longtime fan of Maddin, Losier (best known for other inventive portraits of underground film icons like Tony Conrad and George Kuchar) hoped to document him as well; "I hate my voice and face," Maddin replied, and sent her Super-8 footage of his hands instead. Losier interwove the footage into her own distinct tale, shot like a surrealist 1920s silent film. A must for fans of Losier, Maddin and ingenious cinema in general, MANUELLE LABOR was completed for the Berlin Film Festival (where Maddin was the guest of honor). - Jason Sanders A collaboration film by Marie Losier and Guy Maddin. Two sisters, five brothers, a doctor and two nurses and the miraculous birth of a pair of hands, but whose hands?
Lullaby
Director
The filmmaker sends the viewers off to sleep with this 9minute descent into the netherworld.
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Director
A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father
Nude Caboose
Cinematography
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!
Nude Caboose
Writer
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!
Nude Caboose
Director
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!
Workbook
Writer
Remix of previously unreleased material by Guy Maddin.
Workbook
Director
Remix of previously unreleased material by Guy Maddin.
Audition One
Director
Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.
Audition Two
Director of Photography
Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night continued.
Audition Two
Director
Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night continued.
Chimney Workbook
Director
Chimney Workbook draws on the same image pile as Rooster Workbook, but through different shots. The "tunnel" in Rooster Workbook is now identifiable as a chimney which a man seems somehow obsessed with or obsessed by.
FuseBoy
Director of Photography
The electric metre is broken, lets play with the fuses...
FuseBoy
Director
The electric metre is broken, lets play with the fuses...
Sorrowful Shadow
Director
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 and daughter.
A Trip to the Orphanage
Director
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 become while the singer sinks deeper into the melancholy.
Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
Camera Operator
Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.
Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
Editor
Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.
Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
Cinematography
Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.
Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
Writer
Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.
Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
Director
Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.
The Saddest Music in the World
Director
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
Cowards Bend the Knee
Writer
When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
Cowards Bend the Knee
Director
When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Director
En Londres están ocurriendo unos sucesos muy extraños. Lucy Westenra, una dama de la alta sociedad, padece una enfermedad que sólo el doctor Van Helsing puede curar: ha sido mordida por un vampiro. Éste es el comienzo de la lucha entre Van Helsing, los pretendientes de Lucy y el seductor vampiro extranjero.
Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
Director
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.
It's a Wonderful Life
Director
Videoclip para Sparklehorse realizado por Guy Maddin.
Preludes
Director
Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The full "Preludes" anthology was screened on the web in November 2000, and was given theatrical retrospectives at the TIFF Lightbox in the subsequent years.
The Heart of the World
Editor
Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.
The Heart of the World
Director of Photography
Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.
The Heart of the World
Writer
Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.
The Heart of the World
Director
Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.
Vinyl
Himself
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
Nostradamus
Waiter Joe
A medieval cult travels to the 20th century and kills people in an attempt to bring about the end of the world. The policeman must stop them by summoning the spirit of Nostradamus.
Hospital Fragment
Director
An impressionistic series of images inspired by "Tales From the Gimli Hospital".
The Cock Crew
Editor
The scene is a small paper-producing factory presided over by the shiftless Ari and his long-suffering wife Taryn. Employees include Sybill and Windy, pale young women who toil endlessly at the pulp vats, and the more mature Helen, who is past breeding age. As Ari sits astride his beloved chimney, a Care-Giving Woman appears and offers a rooster to Taryn. The crows of this beast cause ecstatic, erotic disquietude in anyone within ear-shot. The cottage becomes a tropical whirlwind of desire until Helen manages to drown the rooster in the bubbling pulp.
The Cock Crew
Writer
The scene is a small paper-producing factory presided over by the shiftless Ari and his long-suffering wife Taryn. Employees include Sybill and Windy, pale young women who toil endlessly at the pulp vats, and the more mature Helen, who is past breeding age. As Ari sits astride his beloved chimney, a Care-Giving Woman appears and offers a rooster to Taryn. The crows of this beast cause ecstatic, erotic disquietude in anyone within ear-shot. The cottage becomes a tropical whirlwind of desire until Helen manages to drown the rooster in the bubbling pulp.
The Cock Crew
Director
The scene is a small paper-producing factory presided over by the shiftless Ari and his long-suffering wife Taryn. Employees include Sybill and Windy, pale young women who toil endlessly at the pulp vats, and the more mature Helen, who is past breeding age. As Ari sits astride his beloved chimney, a Care-Giving Woman appears and offers a rooster to Taryn. The crows of this beast cause ecstatic, erotic disquietude in anyone within ear-shot. The cottage becomes a tropical whirlwind of desire until Helen manages to drown the rooster in the bubbling pulp.
Maldoror: Tygers
Director
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 makes increasingly desperate attempts to be noticed. It ends badly, with the creature dying, Delmas devoured by tigers, and Dol herself imprisoned in the tiger pit.
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Director
Peter Glahn is released after years of incarceration as a political prisoner and is now returning to his homeland, the mythical Mandragora where the sun never sets. On board the ship home, he meets the mysterious Juliana Kossel who vanishes after stealing his heart. Once he arrives on the island, he goes to the family ostrich farm run by his sister Amelia. He finds Amelia living with a farmhand named Cain Ball who fears that Peter's return will endanger the agreement he made with Amelia that will see him inherit the farm. Amelia has since fallen for the vain Dr. Isaac Solti who controls the island and has a hold on both Zephyr Eccles, the widow of a local fisherman, and Juliana, Peter's dream girl from the ship. Solti's true obsession is a recently discovered statue of Venus that possesses strange powers. All the characters meet at Solti's lab where the sexual tensions erupt.
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Interviews with Guy Maddin and his pals are included in this documentary about the Canadian film-maker's life and movies. Features clips from most of Maddin's films up to Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, including Careful and Archangel.
Zookeeper Workbook
Cinematography
Cortometraje surrealista con un guarda de zoo bigotudo como protagonista.
Zookeeper Workbook
Writer
Cortometraje surrealista con un guarda de zoo bigotudo como protagonista.
Zookeeper Workbook
Director
Cortometraje surrealista con un guarda de zoo bigotudo como protagonista.
Rooster Workbook
Producer
Cortometraje de contenido erótico que incluye imágenes de gallos y mujeres.
Rooster Workbook
Cinematography
Cortometraje de contenido erótico que incluye imágenes de gallos y mujeres.
Rooster Workbook
Writer
Cortometraje de contenido erótico que incluye imágenes de gallos y mujeres.
Rooster Workbook
Director
Cortometraje de contenido erótico que incluye imágenes de gallos y mujeres.
The Hands of Ida
Director
Repudiated TV movie directed by Guy Maddin. Rumored to have been destroyed "in a black magic ceremony."
Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
Screenplay
A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.
Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
Director
A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.
Careful
Production Design
In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.
Careful
Editor
In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.
Careful
Cinematography
In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.
Careful
Screenplay
In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.
Careful
Director
In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.
Indigo High-Hatters
Editor
The true story of a 1920s Canadian jazz band who play their every performance gagged and almost completely immobilized by thick cords which bind them hand and foot. The music they produce - from a full range of instruments, yet without recourse to the usual limbs and orifices - is a moving triumph of courage over self-imposed adversity.
Indigo High-Hatters
Cinematography
The true story of a 1920s Canadian jazz band who play their every performance gagged and almost completely immobilized by thick cords which bind them hand and foot. The music they produce - from a full range of instruments, yet without recourse to the usual limbs and orifices - is a moving triumph of courage over self-imposed adversity.
Indigo High-Hatters
Writer
The true story of a 1920s Canadian jazz band who play their every performance gagged and almost completely immobilized by thick cords which bind them hand and foot. The music they produce - from a full range of instruments, yet without recourse to the usual limbs and orifices - is a moving triumph of courage over self-imposed adversity.
Indigo High-Hatters
Director
The true story of a 1920s Canadian jazz band who play their every performance gagged and almost completely immobilized by thick cords which bind them hand and foot. The music they produce - from a full range of instruments, yet without recourse to the usual limbs and orifices - is a moving triumph of courage over self-imposed adversity.
Arcángel
Sound
Un combatiente de la I Guerra Mundial que ha perdido, además de una pierna, a su prometida durante la contienda, se dispone a desembarcar en Archangel, un apartado puerto ruso al que aún no ha llegado la noticia del fin de la guerra.
Arcángel
Art Direction
Un combatiente de la I Guerra Mundial que ha perdido, además de una pierna, a su prometida durante la contienda, se dispone a desembarcar en Archangel, un apartado puerto ruso al que aún no ha llegado la noticia del fin de la guerra.
Arcángel
Editor
Un combatiente de la I Guerra Mundial que ha perdido, además de una pierna, a su prometida durante la contienda, se dispone a desembarcar en Archangel, un apartado puerto ruso al que aún no ha llegado la noticia del fin de la guerra.
Arcángel
Cinematography
Un combatiente de la I Guerra Mundial que ha perdido, además de una pierna, a su prometida durante la contienda, se dispone a desembarcar en Archangel, un apartado puerto ruso al que aún no ha llegado la noticia del fin de la guerra.
Arcángel
Screenplay
Un combatiente de la I Guerra Mundial que ha perdido, además de una pierna, a su prometida durante la contienda, se dispone a desembarcar en Archangel, un apartado puerto ruso al que aún no ha llegado la noticia del fin de la guerra.
Arcángel
Director
Un combatiente de la I Guerra Mundial que ha perdido, además de una pierna, a su prometida durante la contienda, se dispone a desembarcar en Archangel, un apartado puerto ruso al que aún no ha llegado la noticia del fin de la guerra.
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Editor
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Cinematography
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Writer
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Director
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
The Dead Father
Writer
The patriarch of a troubled clan dies, but the resentment and yearning of the eldest son conspire to bring the errant father back for periodic visits in an only partially living state.
The Dead Father
Director
The patriarch of a troubled clan dies, but the resentment and yearning of the eldest son conspire to bring the errant father back for periodic visits in an only partially living state.
The International Style
Nurse
An amusing melange of '60s spy thrillers and other classics. Super secret agent Nick attempts to liberate a top secret microchip from the clutches of multimillionaire Quinton Frost. Paizs pokes fun at the jet set, the Cold War and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms
Student
The further adventure of Nick, Paizs' silent hero sets off to college where he meets Brock West (Winnipeg journalist and rocker Peter Jordon, aka Rocky Roletti). Unwittingly, Nick becomes involved in attempts to restore old campus hangout and the dirty political tricks swirling a hard fought student election. The film successfully weaves the tone of 40s college hijinx movies through the clever spoof of current electoral trends, suggesting how easily old fashioned ethics can turn into fashion.
Berlin
Director
Maddin's film incorporates found footage to provide a glimpse of wartime Berlin. Crowds of soldiers march in formation, play instruments and engage in training drills. Burning fires and a frantic pace contrast with the organized movements of the troops, perhaps foreshadowing the destructive events to come.
CLIFF: A PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Self
Acclaimed Canadian artist Cliff Eyland looks back on his life after a successful double lung transplant.