
Guy Maddin
Biography
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.
Acting (17 movies)

Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms
1982

The International Style
1983

Horse Brothers
2022

Louis Riel for Dinner
2014

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015

My Winnipeg
2008

Manuelle Labor
2007

The Amazed Spectator
2016

It Came from Kuchar
2009

Vinyl
2000

Trump Dreams
2017

Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
2017

Nostradamus
2000

97 Percent True
2008

Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
1997

J.T. LeRoy
2019

Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist
2021
Directing (64 movies)

The Cock Crew
1998

Brand Upon the Brain!
2007

My Winnipeg
2008

The Heart of the World
2000

Tales from the Gimli Hospital
1988

The Saddest Music in the World
2003

Cowards Bend the Knee
2003

My Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2002

Careful
1992

Keyhole
2011

Archangel
1990

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
1997
The Dead Father
1985

Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
2004

A Trip to the Orphanage
2004

Night Mayor
2009

Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
2009
Experiments in Terror 3
2009

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
1995

The Little White Cloud That Cried
2009

Invisible World
2013

Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality
2022

Sorrowful Shadow
2004

Preludes
2000

Rumours
2024

It's My Mother's Birthday Today
2008

Indigo High-Hatters
1991

The Forbidden Room
2015

Spanky: To the Pier and Back
2008
Elms
2014
Footsteps
2008
Only Dream Things
2012

Cold
2014

Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001
Once a Chicken
2015

Sinclair
2010

The Hall Runner
2014

Glorious
2008
Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
2002

Lullaby
2007

Hospital Fragment
1999

Colours
2014

Puberty
2014

Nude Caboose
2006

Odin's Shield Maiden
2007

Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton
2015

Workbook
2006

Seances
2016

Maldoror: Tygers
1998

The Green Fog
2018

FuseBoy
2005

Lines of the Hand
2015

Accidence
2018

The Hands of Ida
1995

Rooster Workbook
1997

Zookeeper Workbook
1997

It's a Wonderful Life
2001

Stump the Guesser
2020

The Rabbit Hunters
2020

Chimney Workbook
2005

Audition One
2005

Audition Two
2005

How to Take a Bath
2009