Guy Maddin Movies

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".

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

A story about an aging crime family patriarch.

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

short cine-essay by Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

A three minute segment featuring the titular item

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

short cine-essay by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson