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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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Oú est Maurice?

By Alek Rzeszowski, Matthew Rankin | 00:04:30 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/8/2006

An aggrieved Francophiliac pet-owner has lost her beloved dog along the absurd and surreal banks of the River Seine. When a debonair Parisianoid crooner arrives with seductive intent, she soon discovers the dog of her dreams as muted French Presidents monitor the strange romance. Lurid Francophilia!

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.

Dead Mothers Kitchen Floors

By Arlea Ashcroft | 00:03:30 | Experimental | 01/08/2008

A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies. Shot in one take, on a single cartridge of super8 film, Dead Mothers Kitchen Floors was originally shot for the One Take Super 8 Event for WNDX, Winnipeg's Festival of Film and Video Art.

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.

Devil Wears a Paper Hat, The

By Curtis L. Wiebe | 00:16:30 | Animation, Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 01/04/2009

An imaginative young girl is pursued by a paper-clad gunslinger through a wintery world inhabited by living paper-birds and a moving, mysterious tree-man.

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