- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- February 28, 1956
- Place of Birth
- Winnipeg, Canada
Guy Maddin
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…
Filmography
tvThe Vampire Lestat
2026 · 'The Voice of Failure' (voice)
movieCity Wide Fever
2026 · Executive Producer
movieRumours
2024 · Director, Story
movieHaunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality
2022 · Director
tvSunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Self
movieHorse Brothers
2022 · Anton the Horse (voice)
movieWoodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Graphic Designer
movieCliff: A Portrait of an Artist
2021 · Self
movieThe Rabbit Hunters
2020 · Screenplay, Director
movieStump the Guesser
2020 · Writer, Director
movieJ.T. LeRoy
2019 · Reader
movieAccidence
2018 · Writer, Director
movieThe Green Fog
2018 · Director
movieTrump Dreams
2017
movieTales from the Winnipeg Film Group
2017
movieSeances
2016 · Director, Writer
movieThe Amazed Spectator
2016 · Himself
movieThe Forbidden Room
2015 · Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Producer
movieBring Me the Head of Tim Horton
2015 · Director
movieThe 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Once a Chicken
movieOnce a Chicken
2015 · Director
movieLines of the Hand
2015 · Director
movieLouis Riel for Dinner
2014 · Narrator
movieThe Hall Runner
2014 · Director
movieColours
2014 · Director
moviePuberty
2014 · Director
Elms
movieElms
2014 · Director
movieCold
2014 · Director
movieInvisible World
2013 · Director
Only Dream Things
movieOnly Dream Things
2012 · Director
movieKeyhole
2011 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
movieSinclair
2010 · Director
movieHow to Take a Bath
2009 · Director
movieThe Little White Cloud That Cried
2009 · Director
movieIt Came from Kuchar
2009 · Self
movieNight Mayor
2009 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Experiments in Terror 3
movieExperiments in Terror 3
2009 · Director
movieSend Me to the 'Lectric Chair
2009 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
movieGlorious
2008 · Director, Writer
movieSpanky: To the Pier and Back
2008 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
movieMy Winnipeg: Live in Toronto
2008 · Himself, Director, Producer
movie97 Percent True
2008
Footsteps
movieFootsteps
2008 · Cinematography, Director
movieIt's My Mother's Birthday Today
2008 · Director
movieMy Winnipeg
2008 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Death of the Reel
movieDeath of the Reel
2008 · Himself
movieBerlin
2007 · Director
movieBrand Upon the Brain!
2007 · Director, Writer
movieOdin's Shield Maiden
2007 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
movieManuelle Labor
2007
movieLullaby
2007 · Director
movieMy Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006 · Director
movieNude Caboose
2006 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
movieWorkbook
2006 · Director, Writer
movieAudition One
2005 · Director
movieAudition Two
2005 · Director, Director of Photography
movieChimney Workbook
2005 · Director
movieFuseBoy
2005 · Director, Director of Photography
movieSorrowful Shadow
2004 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
movieSissy-Boy Slap-Party
2004 · Director, Camera Operator, Cinematography, Writer, Editor
movieA Trip to the Orphanage
2004 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
movieThe Saddest Music in the World
2003 · Director, Writer
movieCowards Bend the Knee
2003 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
movieFancy, Fancy Being Rich
2002 · Director
movieDracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2002 · Director
movieSonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001 · Director
movieIt's a Wonderful Life
2001 · Director
moviePreludes
2000 · Director
movieThe Heart of the World
2000 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
movieVinyl
2000 · Himself
movieNostradamus
2000 · Waiter Joe
movieHospital Fragment
1999 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
movieThe Cock Crew
1998 · Writer, Editor, Director
movieMaldoror: Tygers
1998 · Director
movieTwilight of the Ice Nymphs
1997 · Director
movieGuy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
1997 · Self - filmmaker
movieRooster Workbook
1997 · Producer, Writer, Cinematography, Director
movieZookeeper Workbook
1997 · Writer, Cinematography, Director
movieOdilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
1995 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Hands of Ida
1995 · Director
movieCareful
1992 · Production Design, Editor, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
movieIndigo High-Hatters
1991 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
movieArchangel
1990 · Director, Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography, Editor, Sound
movieTales from the Gimli Hospital
1988 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
The Dead Father
movieThe Dead Father
1985 · Director, Writer
movieThe International Style
1983 · Nurse
movieOak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms
1982 · Student
movieThe Triangular Door
— · Narrator
Nightingale
movieNightingale
— · Director, Writer