Guy Maddin

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**Guy Maddin**

Born:	February 28, 1956 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Occupation:	Film director, producer and screenwriter.

Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a writer and director of both features and short films. His most distinctive quality is his fondness for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films.

While Maddin strives to recreate the styles and moods of early film melodramas, Weimar Republic German silent films, and 1920s Soviet agit-prop, his own distinct personal style lies in his use of clichés, psychosexual situations, bizarre stories and humor. It is this self-conscious and surreal merging of early film-making techniques with a post-modern sensibility that give Maddin's films their distinct style.

Maddin's first film was the 1986 short The Dead Father. His first feature film was Tales from the Gimli Hospital.

His latest work The Brand Upon the Brain was made in collaboration with the Seattle-based The Film Company, the US's first non-profit film studio. It shares a building space with the Northwest Film Forum.

[edit] Feature films

The Brand Upon the Brain (2006)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003, starring Isabella Rossellini and Mark McKinney)
Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
Careful (1992)
Archangel (1990)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

[edit] Short films

[Nude Caboose][1] (2006)
My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2006, A portrait of Roberto Rossellini, where he is depicted as a giant, pillow tummy. Starring his daughter Isabella Rossellini)
Sissy Boy Slap Party (II) (2004)
Sombra Dolorosa (2004)
A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002)
The Heart of the World (2000)
Fleshpots of Antiquity (2000)
Hospital Fragment (1999)
Maldoror: Tygers (1998)
The Cock Crew or Love-Chaunt of the Chimney (1998)
The Hoyden or Idylls of Womanhood (1998)
The Hands of Ida (1995)
Imperial Orgies or The Rabbi of Bacharach (1996)
Sissy Boy Slap Party or The Coming Terror (1995)
Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995, Toronto International Film Festival award winner)
Sea Beggars or The Weaker Sex (1994)
The Pomps of Satan (1993)
Indigo High-Hatters (1991)
Tyro (1990)
BBB (1989)
Mauve Decade (1989)
The Dead Father (1986)