Guy Maddin Movies

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...

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

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...

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.

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

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

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

The third in the series of experimental "horror" features, this collection features the shorts The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase (1999) by Cary...

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

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

short cine-essay by Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin

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...

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

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night continued.

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 three minute segment featuring the titular item

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

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