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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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By Murray Toews | 00:01:27 | Animation, Experimental | 15/11/2009

A solitary artist- the embodiment of a malfunctioning synaptic brain cell, sets off on an exploration of his random drawings, armed only with a pencil and paper.

Winged Victory

By Victoria Prince | 00:07:40 | Animation, Experimental | 1/3/2006

Step right up Ladies and Gentlemen, Step right up! Presenting Winged Victory, an over-the-Big-Top experimental, silent-era-styled, hand-processed, scratch animation. Set in a Circus Ring, a Chicken Lady dreams of being the main stage flying trapeze act. Constantly taunted and teased by scratch-animated clowns and a whip-wielding Ringmaster, there is only one way for her to…

Praying Mantis Up Skirt

By Allison Bile, Jennifer Bisch | 00:02:15 | Animation, Experimental | 01/10/2007

A band of insects wreak havoc over the prairies and silly praying mantis canât seem to keep up.

Cattle Call

By Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk | 00:03:30 | Animation, Documentary, Experimental | 01/09/2008

Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create…

Barber Gull Rub

By Matthew Rankin | 00:02:24 | Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 01/05/2008

Winnipeg Film Group. Deep in the winter of 1986. Guy Maddin is in the process of filming Tales from the Gimli Hospital and needs to rub a dead seagull on somebodyâs chest. Immediately, Dave Barber agrees, submitting his bare flesh to Maddinâs road kill and to film history.(This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film…

Belt Buckle / Quonset Hut

By Terry Mialkowsky | 00:01:30 | Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/2009

A picture and sound love poem to Saskatchewan. Standing firm against the harsh prairie wind and sun, determined and proud: the belt buckle and the quonset hut.

Glorious

By Guy Maddin | 00:12:19 | Experimental | 01/11/2008

A weakening ganglord regains the grip over his children when he is visited by the ghost of his father. The ghost then collects his "generational fees."

Devil Wears a Paper Hat, The

By Curtis L. Wiebe | 00:16:30 | Animation, Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 01/04/2009

An imaginative young girl is pursued by a paper-clad gunslinger through a wintery world inhabited by living paper-birds and a moving, mysterious tree-man.

International Style, The

By John Paizs | 00:37:38 | Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/1984

An amusing melange of 60's spy thrillers and other classics. Super secret agent Nick attempts to liberate a top secret microchip from the clutches of multimillionaire Quinton Frost. Paizs pokes fun at the jet set, the Cold War and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Primiti Too Taa

By Colin Morton, Ed Ackerman | 00:02:45 | Animation, Experimental | 1/11/1986

A delightful animated poem made with only a typewriter and simple vocal messages, based on the 1920s sound poem Ursonate (Sonata in Primitive Sounds) by the German avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters. The human voice provides the music while words and syllables dance in this short film, which has won several international awards, including a Bronze…

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The Winnipeg Film Group is located on Treaty 1 Territory and on the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples and in the homeland of the Métis Nation. We offer our respect and gratitude to the traditional caretakers of this land.

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