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Name: Guy Maddin  
   
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Date of Birth: 28th February 1956
   
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
   
Profession: Director
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

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 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.

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)
  • The Brand Upon the Brain! (2005)

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)

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