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Cowards Bend the Knee

By Guy Maddin | 01:04:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/2003

Jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliff-hanger, Guy Maddins tremendous Cowards Bend the Knee is a Feuillade serial ultra-condensed and blenderised, as ghostwritten by Euripides. If fiction is sometimes barely disguised autobiography, Cowards is its mirror image, twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment: the mythomaniacal Maddin casts himself (actually, Darcy Fehr) as…

Odin’s Shield Maiden

By Guy Maddin | 00:04:30 | Experimental | 01/01/2007

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 accident.

It’s My Mother’s Birthday Today

By Guy Maddin | 00:05:30 | Experimental | 01/01/2008

This short biographical sketch of Dov Houle, the castrato know as the "Manitoba Meadowlark" who performed on tour withÂ Brand Upon the Brain,Â follows a man and his eggs, a birdcage, chirping birds, and dust-covered, chirping children, all shot in Houle's home during the 2008 NFL Super Bowl.

Isle of Hermaphrodites

By Noam Gonick | 00:03:32 | Documentary | 01/10/2010

The film focuses on the social ecology of Highway 59, the road to the Beaconia Research Station in Manitoba. It was shot on Super 8 film on a rainy day in late August, and the âscriptâ flew out of the truck on the third shot, but it didn't seem to matter. The soundtrack is by…

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By Coral Aiken | 00:20:00 | Experimental | 1/1/2004

A four part series exploring a photographer and the soundscape she inhabits. Shot in sequence on super 8.

Lockport, a Place for Lovers

By Mike Maryniuk | 00:02:30 | Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/2007

Catfish, a condemned waterslide park, foot-long hotdogs and a miniature Niagara Falls (the locks). Lockport is a place for lovers.

Odilon Redon: The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity (2008)

By Guy Maddin | 00:06:00 | Experimental | 01/01/2008

Keller, an old sub-aquatic locomotive engineer, and his son Caelum witness a train collision and rescue from its wreckage Berenice, an orphaned pre-adolescent girl-snail. Keller and Caelum adopt Berenice as a member of their family. Keller even names his beloved steam engine after his "daughter". When Berenice reaches puberty, both Keller and Caelum fall in…

Lode

By Deco Dawson | 00:13:00 | Experimental | 01/01/2000

Deep below the barren surface, two men agitate the infinitely satisfied bellows of the earth. Confined to a daily life of eat, sleep and labour, the workers seek to escape their persistent and remarkably similar visions.

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By Solomon Nagler | 00:05:52 | Experimental | 1/8/2004

Isolated dreams of broken cars falling through the horizon...

Purgatory

By Eric Falardeau | 00:16:30 | Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 01/05/2006

Purgatory is an atmospheric picture about self-hating, through graphic auto-mutilations, of a man facing his own purgatory.

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