Guy Maddin Movies

A sexually-charged short film which includes images of roosters and women.

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

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

Legendary poet John Ashbery scripted this absurdist step-by-step guide to bathing, excerpted from Guy Maddin's feature THE FORBIDDEN ROOM and...

A story about an aging crime family patriarch.

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...

A three minute segment featuring the titular item

The electric metre is broken, lets play with the fuses...

Guy Maddin directed this short biopic on the castrato known as the Manitoba Meadowlark, Dov Houle, who performed on tour with the film “Brand...

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night continued.

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.

Widow Paramo has lost her husband in the plague. Their daughter Dolores is considering suicide with El Muerto preparing himself to welcome her into...

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...

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

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

short cine-essay by Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin

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

Unravelling across eight three-dimensional collages and true, explores the surreal paper worlds, in the process exploring the hidden layers that...

Maddin’s frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a...