Guy Maddin Movies

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

The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

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

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

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

A story about an aging crime family patriarch.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

short cine-essay by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson

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

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

Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators

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