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
2025
- 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 ... (Director)
2019
- J.T. LeRoy as Reader
2018
- Accidence ... (Writer)
- The Green Fog ... (Director)
2016
- Seances ... (Director)
- The Amazed Spectator as Himself
2015
- The Forbidden Room ... (Writer)
- Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton ... (Director)
- Once a Chicken ... (Director)
- Lines of the Hand ... (Director)
- The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2014
- Puberty ... (Director)
- Colours ... (Director)
- Cold ... (Director)
- Elms ... (Director)
- The Hall Runner ... (Director)
- Louis Riel for Dinner as Narrator
2013
- Invisible World ... (Director)
2012
- Only Dream Things ... (Director)
2011
- Keyhole ... (Screenplay)
2009
- Night Mayor ... (Director)
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
- The Little White Cloud That Cried ... (Director)
- How to Take a Bath ... (Director)
- Experiments in Terror 3 ... (Director)
- Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair ... (Director)
2008
- Footsteps ... (Cinematography)
- My Winnipeg as Narrator (voice)
- Glorious ... (Director)
- 97 Percent True
- Death of the Reel as Himself
- Spanky: To the Pier and Back ... (Director)
- It's My Mother's Birthday Today ... (Director)
2007
- Lullaby ... (Director)
- Brand Upon the Brain! ... (Director)
- Manuelle Labor
- Odin's Shield Maiden ... (Director)
2006
- Workbook ... (Writer)
- My Dad Is 100 Years Old ... (Director)
- Nude Caboose ... (Director)
2005
- FuseBoy ... (Director)
- Chimney Workbook ... (Director)
- Audition Two ... (Director)
- Audition One ... (Director)
2004
- Sorrowful Shadow ... (Director)
- A Trip to the Orphanage ... (Director)
- Sissy-Boy Slap-Party ... (Director)
2003
- The Saddest Music in the World ... (Director)
- Cowards Bend the Knee ... (Director)
2002
- Fancy, Fancy Being Rich ... (Director)
- Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary ... (Director)
2001
- It's a Wonderful Life ... (Director)
- Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse ... (Director)
2000
- Preludes ... (Director)
- Vinyl as Himself
- Nostradamus as Waiter Joe
- The Heart of the World ... (Director)
1999
- Hospital Fragment ... (Director)
1998
- Maldoror: Tygers ... (Director)
- The Cock Crew ... (Director)
1997
- Rooster Workbook ... (Director)
- Zookeeper Workbook ... (Writer)
- Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight as Self - filmmaker
- Twilight of the Ice Nymphs ... (Director)
1995
- The Hands of Ida ... (Director)
- The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity ... (Director)
1992
- Careful ... (Editor)
1991
- Indigo High-Hatters ... (Editor)
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