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Guy Maddin
BornJanuary 28 1956 (1956--) (age 51)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died
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OccupationFilm director, producer and screenwriter.
InfluencesLuis Buñuel
Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter and director of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his fondness for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films.

While Maddin strives to recreate the styles and moods of early film melodramas, Weimar Republic German silent films, and 1920s Soviet agit-prop, his own distinct personal style lies in his use of clichés, psychosexual situations, bizarre stories and humor. It is this self-conscious and surreal merging of early film-making techniques with a post-modern sensibility that give Maddin's films their distinct style.

His film education came not with any formal training at a trade school, but with endless weekends of watching films with close friends John Paizs and Steve Snyder. Soon realizing that Paizs was making films and Snyder was teaching production at the University of Manitoba, Maddin eventually decided that he needed to put his own knowledge to work and step behind the camera.

Maddin's first film was the 1986 short The Dead Father. His first feature film was Tales from the Gimli Hospital.

His latest work Brand Upon the Brain was made in collaboration with The Film Company.

In 2007, Maddin became the first artist-curator of the UCLA Film Archives. In this position, he performs the programming for their new "Curated by..." series.[1]

As of fall 2007, Maddin will be teaching film at the University of Manitoba. Also in 2007, Maddin's documentary My Winnipeg won the Best Canadian Feature award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Feature films

Year Title Other notes
1988Tales from the Gimli Hospital
1990Archangel
1992Careful
1997Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
2002Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's DiarySilent
2003Cowards Bend the KneeSilent
2003The Saddest Music in the World
2006Brand Upon the Brain!Silent
2007My Winnipeg

Short films

  • Nude Caboose (2006)
  • My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2006, A portrait of Roberto Rossellini, where he is depicted as a giant pillow tummy. Starring his daughter Isabella Rossellini)
  • Sissy Boy Slap Party (II) (2004)
  • Sombra Dolorosa (2004)
  • A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
  • Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002)
  • The Heart of the World (2000)
  • Fleshpots of Antiquity (2000)
  • Hospital Fragment (1999)
  • Maldoror: Tygers (1998)
  • The Cock Crew or Love-Chaunt of the Chimney (1998)
  • The Hoyden or Idylls of Womanhood (1998)
  • The Hands of Ida (1995)
  • Imperial Orgies or The Rabbi of Bacharach (1996)
  • Sissy Boy Slap Party or The Coming Terror (1995)
  • Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995, Toronto International Film Festival award winner)
  • Sea Beggars or The Weaker Sex (1994)
  • The Pomps of Satan (1993)
  • Indigo High-Hatters (1991)
  • Tyro (1990)
  • BBB (1989)
  • Mauve Decade (1989)
  • The Dead Father (1986)

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Luis Buñuel

Born February 22, 1900
Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, Spain
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, is a black-and-white 1988 psychodrama which incorporates elements of surrealism, black comedy, and expressionism.
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, is a black-and-white 1988 psychodrama which incorporates elements of surrealism, black comedy, and expressionism.
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