Guy Maddin Movies

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 deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini...

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

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...

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night continued.

An adaptation of an unrealized script by Jean Vigo (Les lignes de la main), starring his late daughter, the critic, programmer, and actress Luce Vigo

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

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

Short documentary revealing how the sound effects were created for Maddin's film "Brand Upon the Brain".

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

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

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

A three minute segment featuring the titular item

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

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

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

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

The shield maiden of Gimli yearns for the drowned fisherman Mundi while her acolytes in mourning aid her in this fact-based account of a tragic...

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

Maddin's film incorporates found footage to provide a glimpse of wartime Berlin. Crowds of soldiers march in formation, play instruments and engage...