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Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux

Sat, Nov 19 / 5pm & 7pm
Sun, Nov 20 / 7:30pm
Wed, Nov 23 / 9pm
Sat, Nov 26 / 5:30pm
Sun, Nov 27 / 3:30pm
Dir. Guy Maddin
1988, Canada, 64 min
New 4K Restoration

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux is the 4k restoration (including the replacement of a long-lost scene) of the 1988 cult classic about blistering lust and seething envy during a 19th-century epidemic ravaging Gimli, a small Icelandic-Canadian fishing village on the shores on Lake Winnipeg.

Plays with

Barber Gull Rub
Dir. Matthew Rankin
2008, Canada, 3 min
Deep in the winter of 1986. Guy Maddin is in the process of filming Tales from the Gimli Hospital and needs to rub a dead seagull on somebody’s chest. Immediately, Dave Barber agrees, submitting his bare flesh to Maddin’s road kill and to film history.

Reviews

An original and insinuating black comedy from Winnipeg, Canada, where something very strange seems to be going on. The pastiche is nearly perfect, played with an utter sincerity that makes it impossible to tell just where the jokes are coming from.
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
There are moments of jaw-dropping inspiration, and many that are just impenetrably odd. But this is immensely winning for the rawness alone.
- Time Out
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