Guy Maddin

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.

Directed

1. Rumours (2024) — Director
2. My Winnipeg (2008) — Director
3. The Heart of the World (2000) — Director
4. The Forbidden Room (2015) — Director
5. The Saddest Music in the World (2003) — Director
6. Brand Upon the Brain! (2007) — Director
7. Archangel (1990) — Director
8. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) — Director
9. Keyhole (2011) — Director
10. Sissy-Boy Slap-Party (2004) — Director
11. Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) — Director
12. Cowards Bend the Knee (2003) — Director
13. Careful (1992) — Director
14. The Green Fog (2018) — Director
15. Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995) — Director
16. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) — Director
17. My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2006) — Director
18. Sorrowful Shadow (2004) — Director
19. Spanky: To the Pier and Back (2008) — Director
20. Hospital Fragment (1999) — Director
21. A Trip to the Orphanage (2004) — Director
22. Stump the Guesser (2020) — Director
23. Nude Caboose (2006) — Director
24. Odin's Shield Maiden (2007) — Director
25. Invisible World (2013) — Director
26. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair (2009) — Director
27. The Dead Father (1985) — Director
28. Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002) — Director
29. The Little White Cloud That Cried (2009) — Director
30. It's My Mother's Birthday Today (2008) — Director
31. Footsteps (2008) — Director
32. Only Dream Things (2012) — Director
33. Seances (2016) — Director
34. It's a Wonderful Life (2001) — Director
35. Night Mayor (2009) — Director
36. The Hall Runner (2014) — Director
37. The Rabbit Hunters (2020) — Director
38. Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015) — Director
39. Accidence (2018) — Director
40. Zookeeper Workbook (1997) — Director

Also appeared in

1. My Winnipeg (2008) — Narrator (voice)
2. J.T. LeRoy (2019) — Reader
3. The Vampire Lestat (2026) — 'The Voice of Failure' (voice)
4. Vinyl (2000) — Himself
5. Nostradamus (2000) — Waiter Joe
6. It Came from Kuchar (2009) — Self
7. Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight (1997) — Self - filmmaker
8. 97 Percent True (2008)
9. Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (2022) — Self
10. Louis Riel for Dinner (2014) — Narrator
11. Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms (1982) — Student
12. The International Style (1983) — Nurse
13. The Amazed Spectator (2016) — Himself
14. The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (2015)
15. Horse Brothers (2022) — Anton the Horse (voice)
16. Manuelle Labor (2007)
17. The Triangular Door — Narrator
18. Trump Dreams (2017)
19. Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group (2017)
20. Death of the Reel (2008) — Himself
21. Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist (2021) — Self
22. My Winnipeg: Live in Toronto (2008) — Himself