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Guy Maddin

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  • Writer
  • Cinematographer
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Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Herdis Maddin (a hair-dresser) and Charles "Chas" Maddin (grain clerk and general manager of the Maroons, a Winnipeg hockey team). Maddin studied economics at the University of Winnipeg, working as a bank manager, house painter, and photographic archivist before becoming a film-maker. Maddin produced his first film in 1985, and since then his distinctive style of recreating and renovating silent film conventions and international critical acclaim have made him one of Canada's most celebrated directors. In 2003, Maddin also expanded his career to become an author and an installation artist.
BornFebruary 28, 1956
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Guy Maddin at an event for My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005)
Guy Maddin at an event for My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005)
Isabella Rossellini and Guy Maddin at an event for My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005)
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Guy Maddin at an event for The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Isabella Rossellini and Guy Maddin at an event for The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Isabella Rossellini, Guy Maddin, and Mark McKinney at an event for The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Guy Maddin at an event for The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Guy Maddin at an event for The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

Known for

The Heart of the World (2000)
The Heart of the World
7.6
Short
  • Director
  • 2000
The Forbidden Room (2015)
The Forbidden Room
6.1
  • Director
  • 2015
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
The Saddest Music in the World
7.0
  • Director
  • 2003
My Winnipeg (2007)
My Winnipeg
7.6
  • Director
  • 2007

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Director

  • Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality
  • Isabella Rossellini in The Rabbit Hunters (2020)
    The Rabbit Hunters
  • Stump the Guesser (2020)
    Stump the Guesser
  • Accidence (2018)
    Accidence
  • The Green Fog (2017)
    The Green Fog
  • Maria de Medeiros in Seances (2016)
    Seances
  • Lines of the Hand
  • Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015)
    Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton
  • Once a Chicken (2015)
    Once a Chicken
  • The Forbidden Room (2015)
    The Forbidden Room
  • The Hall Runner
  • Cold
  • Elms
  • Colours
  • Puberty

Writer

  • Isabella Rossellini in The Rabbit Hunters (2020)
    The Rabbit Hunters
  • Stump the Guesser (2020)
    Stump the Guesser
  • Accidence (2018)
    Accidence
  • Maria de Medeiros in Seances (2016)
    Seances
  • The Forbidden Room (2015)
    The Forbidden Room
  • Invisible World (2012)
    Invisible World
    • (segment Gato Colorido)
  • Keyhole (2011)
    Keyhole
  • Night Mayor (2009)
    Night Mayor
  • Glorious
  • My Winnipeg (2007)
    My Winnipeg
  • The Art of Seduction (2006)
    The Art of Seduction
  • Nude Caboose (2006)
    Nude Caboose
  • Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
    Brand Upon the Brain!
  • A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
    A Trip to the Orphanage
  • Sombra dolorosa (2004)
    Sombra dolorosa

Cinematographer

  • Night Mayor (2009)
    Night Mayor
  • Spanky: To the Pier and Back
  • Footsteps
  • Death of the Reel (2008)
    Death of the Reel
  • Odin's Shield Maiden (2007)
    Odin's Shield Maiden
  • The Art of Seduction (2006)
    The Art of Seduction
  • Nude Caboose (2006)
    Nude Caboose
  • FuseBoy
  • Audition Two (2005)
    Audition Two
  • A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
    A Trip to the Orphanage
  • Sombra dolorosa (2004)
    Sombra dolorosa
  • Sissy-Boy Slap-Party (2004)
    Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
  • Darcy Fehr and Melissa Dionisio in Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
    Cowards Bend the Knee
  • Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002)
    Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
  • Fleshpots of Antiquity

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Personal details

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    • February 28, 1956
    • Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
    • Kim MorganDecember 11, 2010 - ?
  • "Survival" (1985), as Concerned Citizen Stan (1985)
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Biographical Movie
    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Interview
    • 7 Articles

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  • Trivia
    Maddin's father Chas was blinded in one eye when his mother held him close to her as an infant and an open brooch pierced his eyelid. A similar event occurs in Maddin's third feature film, Careful.
  • Quotes
    I've never bought that cliché that you should never take people out of the narrative, take people out of that dramatic illusion. I'm more of a person who loves his grandmother. I'm thinking when a grandmother sits at the foot of your bed and tells you a bedtime story, you get absorbed into the story, you notice her style of telling a story. Some parts you should tell badly, other parts charmingly. You're totally sucked into the story. You've been scared, moved, engaged, and then every now and then you notice your grandmother has a dental whistle or a nose hair or that she's getting pretty wrinkly and that she's sitting on your foot, and then you go back into the story. I'm one of those filmmakers that likes to show the grandmother.
    • Films often imitate the visual look and special effects of the silent film era

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