Guy Maddin
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| Born | February 28, 1956 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Occupation | Film director, producer and screenwriter. |
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.
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[edit] Feature films
| Year | Title | Other notes |
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| 1988 | Tales from the Gimli Hospital | |
| 1990 | Archangel | |
| 1992 | Careful | |
| 1997 | Twilight of the Ice Nymphs | |
| 2002 | Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary | Silent |
| 2003 | Cowards Bend the Knee | Silent |
| 2003 | The Saddest Music in the World | |
| 2006 | Brand Upon the Brain! | Silent |
| 2007 | My Winnipeg |
[edit] 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)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia
- Bravo!FACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent): four of Guy Maddin's shorts available for viewing online
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
- Winnipeg's avant-garde auteur Guy Maddin comes in from the cold (2004)
- Maddin's production diary for The Saddest Music in the World
- CBC Digital Archives - Prairie Visionaries: Guy Maddin and the Winnipeg Film Group
- Interview with Guy Maddin about "The Saddest Music in the World"
- Guy Maddin on The Hour
- DVD Review of Maddin's 1992 Film Careful at Alternative Film Guide
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