Guy Maddin Movies

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

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....

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...

Acclaimed Canadian artist Cliff Eyland looks back on his life after a successful double lung transplant.

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

Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect.

Guided by the spirit of “The Cuadecuc Manifesto” (coined by co-director Evan Johnson and inspired by Pere Portabella’s 1970...

Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators

Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

The scene is a small paper-producing factory presided over by the shiftless Ari and his long-suffering wife Taryn. Employees include Sybill and...

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

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

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

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...

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.

A tribute to underground filmmaker Jack Smith. The film centers around a graphic transsexual orgy.

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night continued.

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

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