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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Guy Maddin

Guy MADDIN (1956, Canada) did not attend film school. He studied Economics at the University of Winnipeg and then earned his living as a house painter. During the late 1970s and early ’80s he cultivated his interest in cinema. His first feature, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, appeared in 1988 and became a midnight-movie classic. In 1995, Maddin became the youngest winner of the Telluride Silver Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Together with Isabella Rossellini, he directed Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair (2008). He has also made installation works and published several books.

Filmography

The Dead Father (1985, short), Tales From the Gimli Hospital (1988, short), Mauve Decade (1989, short), BBB (1989, short), Archangel (1990), Tyro (1990, short), Indigo High-Hatters (1991, short), Careful (1992), The Pomps of Satan [a.k.a. Through a Man’s Eyeglass] (1993, short), Sea Beggars, or The Weaker Sex (1994, short), The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Towards Infinity (1995, short), Sissy-Boy Slap-Party [a.k.a The Coming Terror] (1995, short), Imperial Orgies or The Rabbi of Bacharach (1996, short), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997), The Hoyden [a.k.a. Idylls of Womanhood] (1998, short), The Cork Crew, or Love-Chaunt of the Chimney (1999, short), Maldoror: Tygers (1999, short), Hospital Fragments (1999, short), Fleshpots of Antiquity (2000, short), The Heart of the World (2000), DRACULA – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002, short), Cowards Bend the Knee (2003, install), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), A Trip to the Orphanage (2004, short), Sombra dolorosa (2004, short), My Dad is 100 Years Old (2005, short), Brand Upon the Brain! (2006), Nude Caboose (2006, short), Odin’s Shield Maiden (2007, short), My Winnipeg (2007, doc), Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair (2009 install, co-dir), Night Mayor (2009, short), The Little White Cloud That Cried (2009, short), Sinclair (2010, short), Keyhole (2011), Mundo Invisível/Invisible World (2012, co-dir), Only Dream Things (2012, short), The Hall Runner (2014, short), Puberty (2014, short), Elms (2014, short), Colours (2014, short), Cold (2014, short), The Forbidden Room (2015, co-dir), Once a Chicken (2015, short), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015, co-dir), Seances (2016, instal), The Green Fog (2017), Accidence (2018, co-dir).

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Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin at IFFR

  • Hospital Fragment

    An impressionist series of images, inspired by Tales From the Gimli Hospital.

    • main programme short

  • My Dad Is 100 Years Old

    Charming homage by Isabella Rossellini and Guy Maddin to the great Italian film maker Roberto Rossellini.

    • Cinema Regained

  • Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair

    Guy Maddin’s contribution to ‘Urban Screens’ features his unique signature. In this seven-minute film a diva (Isabella Rossellini) is tied to a wooden

    • Signals: Size Matters

  • Odin’s Shield Maiden

    A beautiful elegy to a drowned fisherman by Maddin in the film language so characteristic of him.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • The Heart of the World

    A riveting ‘montage of attractions’ of the styles of silent cinema; two clans fighting for a throbbing heart. Produced for the Toronto Film Festival 1

    • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  • Fancy, Fancy Being Rich

    Silent, surreal film about drunken sailors hunting women, based on a kitsch opera aria.

    • Guy Maddin focus

  • DRACULA – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary

    Maddin’s dizzying – but true to life – ballet version of Bram Stoker’s book is a strange mix of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr. F

    • Guy Maddin focus

  • The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity

    Two steam-train drivers, father and son, are after a girl; she leaves with a Zeppelin pilot.

    • Guy Maddin focus

  • Tales from the Gimli Hospital

    As the plague rages through the idyllic toen of Gimli, the patients Einar and Gunnar find out that both of them have made love to Gunnar’s deceased wi

    • Guy Maddin focus

  • Archangel

    This ecstatic and moving melo-noir-drama is inhabited by amnesiacs, who are plagued by obsessions, mustard-gas attacks or both. Maddin also treats the

    • Guy Maddin focus