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Picture Day

By Lasha Mowchun | 00:03:45 | Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 4/09/18

Picture Day is the worst. Sari needs to escape. But as a young girl with nowhere to go, she escapes into her imagination. In her imagination, she finds validation. There she is not just an awkward teenager, but an ice princess adored by all.

Dead Father, The

By Guy Maddin | 00:24:30 | Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/1985

A young man, whose father has died, experiences an array of post-mortal brushes with his dead father. This grey comedy takes the dark subject matter and produces humorous results.

Workbooks Collection (FuseBoy, Rooster, Zookeeper, Chimney, Audition 1, Audition 2)

By Guy Maddin | 00:23:30 | Experimental | 1/1/2005

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night. Featuring: FuseBoy (4:00), Rooster (3:54), Zookeeper (3:53), Chimney (3:52), Audition 01 (5:04), Audition 02 (2:33)

Hydro-LÃ©vesque

By Matthew Rankin | 00:16:00 | Experimental | 01/06/2008

November, 1976. As QuÃ©bec strides boldly towards independence, a supernatural vision of tragedy inspires a deaf-mute QuÃ©bÃ©coise Catholic nun to save the city of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide. Arriving just in time to find Winnipegâs polio-stricken mayor leading the citizens into self-destructive hysteria, the Holy Sister must prepare the way to salvation by filling…

Barber Gull Rub

By Matthew Rankin | 00:02:24 | Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 01/05/2008

Winnipeg Film Group. 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 somebodyâs chest. Immediately, Dave Barber agrees, submitting his bare flesh to Maddinâs road kill and to film history.(This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film…

Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair

By Guy Maddin, Isabella Rossellini | 00:07:00 | Experimental | 01/01/2008

A diva (Isabella Rossellini) is tied to a wooden 'lectric chair. The power is slowly increased, sparks fly playfully, smoke curls upwards. The star becomes ecstatic. Her petite mort rÃªverie produces excitingly strange images - from objects of desire to melancholy flashbacks.

Glorious

By Guy Maddin | 00:12:19 | Experimental | 01/11/2008

A weakening ganglord regains the grip over his children when he is visited by the ghost of his father. The ghost then collects his "generational fees."

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.

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…

Dead Father, The

By Guy Maddin | 00:24:30 | Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/1985

A young man, whose father has died, experiences an array of post-mortal brushes with his dead father. This grey comedy takes the dark subject matter and produces humorous results.

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