Guy Maddin
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Guy Maddin is a Canadian director born in Winnipeg, celebrated for wildly stylized films that recreate and distort the visual grammar of silent and early sound cinema. Careful and The Saddest Music in the World established his deliberately archaic visual style, employing scratched film stock, exaggerated melodrama, and expressionist lighting to construct a dreamlike, nostalgic alternate cinematic history. My Winnipeg, blending documentary and fantastical autobiography into a surreal love letter to his hometown, became one of his most acclaimed and personal works. Brand Upon the Brain! and The Forbidden Room extended his maximalist, collage-like visual excess drawing on pulp melodrama and silent-era technique. Maddin's singular, deliberately archaic visual style recreating and distorting early cinema has made him one of the most distinctive formal experimentalists in contemporary world cinema.
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Guy Maddin is a Canadian director born in Winnipeg, celebrated for wildly stylized films that recreate and distort the visual grammar of silent and early sound cinema. Careful and The Saddest Music in the World established his deliberately archaic visual style, employing scratched film stock, exaggerated melodrama, and expressionist lighting to construct a dreamlike, nostalgic alternate cinematic history. My Winnipeg, blending documentary and fantastical autobiography into a surreal love letter to his hometown, became one of his most acclaimed and personal works. Brand Upon the Brain! and The Forbidden Room extended his maximalist, collage-like visual excess drawing on pulp melodrama and silent-era technique. Maddin's singular, deliberately archaic visual style recreating and distorting early cinema has made him one of the most distinctive formal experimentalists in contemporary world cinema.
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The Forbidden Room
2015
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Keyhole
2011
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Rumours
2024
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The Saddest Music in the World
2003
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Brand Upon the Brain!
2007
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Archangel
1990
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The Rabbit Hunters
2020
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2002
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
1997
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Nude Caboose
2006
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My Winnipeg
2008
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Cowards Bend the Knee
2003
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital
1988
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Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
2009
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Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
1995
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The Little White Cloud That Cried
2009
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Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
2004
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Careful
1992
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Hospital Fragment
1999
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Stump the Guesser
2020
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Night Mayor
2009
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It's a Wonderful Life
2001
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The Hall Runner
2014
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A Trip to the Orphanage
2004
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Zookeeper Workbook
1997
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The Heart of the World
2000
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Odin's Shield Maiden
2007
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Accidence
2018
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How to Take a Bath
2009
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Sorrowful Shadow
2004
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It's My Mother's Birthday Today
2008
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Rumours
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2024
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Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality
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2022
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The Rabbit Hunters
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2020
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Stump the Guesser
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2020
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Accidence
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2018
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The Forbidden Room
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2015
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Lines of the Hand
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2015
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The Hall Runner
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2014
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Colours
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2014
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Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Guy Maddin and where are they from?
Guy Maddin is 70 years old, born on February 28, 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada.
What are the most famous roles of Guy Maddin?
Guy Maddin is best known for directing Rumours, My Winnipeg, The Heart of the World.
How many movies has Guy Maddin directed?
Over a 41-year career (since 1985), Guy Maddin has directed or written 51 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Guy Maddin's first movie?
The career of Guy Maddin began with Nightingale ().
What is Guy Maddin's most recent movie or series?
Guy Maddin's most recent release is Rumours, which premiered on July 1, 2024.
Guy Maddin
1956-02-28 · Winnipeg, Canada
Guy Maddin CM OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films which has solidified his popularity and acclaim in alternative film circles. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada's most well-known and celebrated film-makers. Maddin has directed eleven feature films and numerous short films, in addition to publishing three books and creating a host of installation art projects. A number of Maddin's recent films began as or developed from installation art projects, and his books also relate to his film work. Maddin has been the subject of much critical praise and academic attention, including two books of interviews with Maddin and two book-length academic studies of his work. Maddin was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, in 2012.