Guy Maddin
Born: 1956-02-28 in Winnipeg, Canada
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- The Vampire Lestat as 'The Voice of Failure' (voice)
- City Wide Fever ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Rumours ... (Director)
2022
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self
- Horse Brothers as Anton the Horse (voice)
- Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality ... (Director)
2021
- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror ... (Graphic Designer)
- Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist as Self
2020
- The Rabbit Hunters ... (Screenplay)
- Stump the Guesser ... (Writer)
2019
- J.T. LeRoy as Reader
2018
- The Green Fog ... (Director)
- Accidence ... (Writer)
2016
- Seances ... (Director)
- The Amazed Spectator as Himself
2015
- The Forbidden Room ... (Director)
- Lines of the Hand ... (Director)
- Once a Chicken ... (Director)
- The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
- Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton ... (Director)
2014
- Louis Riel for Dinner as Narrator
- Elms ... (Director)
- Cold ... (Director)
- The Hall Runner ... (Director)
- Puberty ... (Director)
- Colours ... (Director)
2013
- Invisible World ... (Director)
2012
- Only Dream Things ... (Director)
2011
- Keyhole ... (Screenplay)
2010
- Sinclair ... (Director)
2009
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
- Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair ... (Director)
- The Little White Cloud That Cried ... (Director)
- Night Mayor ... (Director)
- How to Take a Bath ... (Director)
- Experiments in Terror 3 ... (Director)
2008
- My Winnipeg as Narrator (voice)
- Footsteps ... (Cinematography)
- Death of the Reel as Himself
- My Winnipeg: Live in Toronto as Himself
- Glorious ... (Director)
- 97 Percent True
- It's My Mother's Birthday Today ... (Director)
- Spanky: To the Pier and Back ... (Director)
2007
- Brand Upon the Brain! ... (Director)
- Manuelle Labor
- Berlin ... (Director)
- Lullaby ... (Director)
- Odin's Shield Maiden ... (Director)
2006
- Nude Caboose ... (Director)
- My Dad Is 100 Years Old ... (Director)
- Workbook ... (Director)
2005
- FuseBoy ... (Director)
- Audition Two ... (Director)
- Audition One ... (Director)
- Chimney Workbook ... (Director)
2004
- Sissy-Boy Slap-Party ... (Director)
- Sorrowful Shadow ... (Director)
- A Trip to the Orphanage ... (Director)
2003
- The Saddest Music in the World ... (Director)
- Cowards Bend the Knee ... (Director)
2002
- Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary ... (Director)
- Fancy, Fancy Being Rich ... (Director)
2001
- It's a Wonderful Life ... (Director)
- Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse ... (Director)
2000
- Preludes ... (Director)
- Nostradamus as Waiter Joe
- The Heart of the World ... (Writer)
- Vinyl as Himself
1999
- Hospital Fragment ... (Director)
1998
- The Cock Crew ... (Writer)
- Maldoror: Tygers ... (Director)
1997
- Twilight of the Ice Nymphs ... (Director)
- Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight as Self - filmmaker
- Zookeeper Workbook ... (Writer)
- Rooster Workbook ... (Producer)
1995
- Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity ... (Director)
- The Hands of Ida ... (Director)
1992
- Careful ... (Production Design)
1991
- Indigo High-Hatters ... (Director)
1990
- Archangel ... (Director)
1988
- Tales from the Gimli Hospital ... (Director)
1985
- The Dead Father ... (Director)
1983
- The International Style as Nurse
1982
- Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms as Student