Directing · b. 1956 · Winnipeg, Canada

Guy Maddin

Biography

Guy Maddin CM OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films which has solidified his popularity and acclaim in alternative film circles. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada's most well-known and celebrated film-makers. Maddin has directed eleven feature films and numerous short films, in addition to publishing three bo...

Directed
Rumours 2024 Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality 2022 Stump the Guesser 2020 The Rabbit Hunters 2020 The Green Fog 2018 Accidence 2018 Seances 2016 The Forbidden Room 2015 Once a Chicken 2015 Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton 2015 Lines of the Hand 2015 Elms 2014 Cold 2014 The Hall Runner 2014 Colours 2014 Puberty 2014 Invisible World 2013 Only Dream Things 2012 Keyhole 2011 Sinclair 2010 Night Mayor 2009 Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair 2009 Experiments in Terror 3 2009 The Little White Cloud That Cried 2009 How to Take a Bath 2009 My Winnipeg 2008 It's My Mother's Birthday Today 2008 Spanky: To the Pier and Back 2008 Footsteps 2008 Glorious 2008 Brand Upon the Brain! 2007 Berlin 2007 Lullaby 2007 Odin's Shield Maiden 2007 My Dad Is 100 Years Old 2006 Nude Caboose 2006 Workbook 2006 FuseBoy 2005 Audition One 2005 Chimney Workbook 2005 Audition Two 2005 Sissy-Boy Slap-Party 2004 A Trip to the Orphanage 2004 Sorrowful Shadow 2004 The Saddest Music in the World 2003 Cowards Bend the Knee 2003 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary 2002 Fancy, Fancy Being Rich 2002 Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse 2001 It's a Wonderful Life 2001 The Heart of the World 2000 Preludes 2000 Hospital Fragment 1999 The Cock Crew 1998 Maldoror: Tygers 1998 Twilight of the Ice Nymphs 1997 Rooster Workbook 1997 Zookeeper Workbook 1997 Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity 1995 The Hands of Ida 1995 Careful 1992 Indigo High-Hatters 1991 Archangel 1990 Tales from the Gimli Hospital 1988 The Dead Father 1985
Cinematography
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair 2009 Night Mayor 2009 Spanky: To the Pier and Back 2008 Odin's Shield Maiden 2007 Nude Caboose 2006 Audition Two 2005 FuseBoy 2005 Sorrowful Shadow 2004 A Trip to the Orphanage 2004 Cowards Bend the Knee 2003 The Heart of the World 2000 Hospital Fragment 1999
Acting
Horse Brothers Anton the Horse (voice) 2022 Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist Self 2021 J.T. LeRoy Reader 2019 Trump Dreams 2017 Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group 2017 The Amazed Spectator Himself 2016 The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin 2015 Louis Riel for Dinner Narrator 2014 It Came from Kuchar Self 2009 Death of the Reel Himself 2008 97 Percent True 2008 Manuelle Labor 2007 Vinyl Himself 2000 Nostradamus Waiter Joe 2000 Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight Self - filmmaker 1997 The International Style Nurse 1983 Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms Student 1982
Other Credits
City Wide Fever Executive Producer 2025 Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Graphic Designer 2021
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