Guy Maddin
|
|
Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Winnipeg 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 Soviet 1920s agit-prop, his own distinct personal style lies in his use of cliches, psychosexual situations, bizarre stories, and humor. It is this self-conscious and surreal merging early film-making techinques 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.
Feature films
- Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
- Archangel (1990)
- Careful (1992)
- Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
- Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
- Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
- The Saddest Music in the World (2003, starring Isabella Rossellini and Mark McKinney)
Short films
- 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)
External links
- Winnipeg's avant-garde auteur Guy Maddin comes in from the cold (2004) (http://www.citypages.com/databank/25/1209/article11862.asp)
- Maddin's production diary for The Saddest Music in the World (http://villagevoice.com/issues/0319/maddin.php)