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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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Picture Day

By Lasha Mowchun | 00:03:45 | Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 4/09/18

Picture Day is the worst. Sari needs to escape. But as a young girl with nowhere to go, she escapes into her imagination. In her imagination, she finds validation. There she is not just an awkward teenager, but an ice princess adored by all.

Dead Father, The

By Guy Maddin | 00:24:30 | Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/1985

A young man, whose father has died, experiences an array of post-mortal brushes with his dead father. This grey comedy takes the dark subject matter and produces humorous results.

Workbooks Collection (FuseBoy, Rooster, Zookeeper, Chimney, Audition 1, Audition 2)

By Guy Maddin | 00:23:30 | Experimental | 1/1/2005

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night. Featuring: FuseBoy (4:00), Rooster (3:54), Zookeeper (3:53), Chimney (3:52), Audition 01 (5:04), Audition 02 (2:33)

Hydro-LÃ©vesque

By Matthew Rankin | 00:16:00 | Experimental | 01/06/2008

November, 1976. As QuÃ©bec strides boldly towards independence, a supernatural vision of tragedy inspires a deaf-mute QuÃ©bÃ©coise Catholic nun to save the city of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide. Arriving just in time to find Winnipegâs polio-stricken mayor leading the citizens into self-destructive hysteria, the Holy Sister must prepare the way to salvation by filling…

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."

Fever of the Western Nile, The

By Deco Dawson | 00:08:00 | Experimental | 1/7/2003

Summer passings observed the enigmatic West Nile malady stel its way into the minds and forests of Winnipeg wanderers, casting its feverish amnesia spell; immobilizing wooded creatures collectively pleading to e cured and released of their infirmity. A caution wanderer disregards her own ailment to aid the others as best she can; however the forest…

It’s My Mother’s Birthday Today

By Guy Maddin | 00:05:30 | Experimental | 01/01/2008

This short biographical sketch of Dov Houle, the castrato know as the "Manitoba Meadowlark" who performed on tour withÂ Brand Upon the Brain,Â follows a man and his eggs, a birdcage, chirping birds, and dust-covered, chirping children, all shot in Houle's home during the 2008 NFL Super Bowl.

strawboy

By Daniel Eskin | 00:11:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/12/2003

Set in the world of dreams and fantasy, a young boy attempts to solve his mother's murder while confined to a staircase. Ultimately a story of a boy emerging from childhood and accepting responsibility, "strawboy" examines those often hazy borders between fantasy and reality, and those between early life and adulthood.

Odilon Redon: The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity (2008)

By Guy Maddin | 00:06:00 | Experimental | 01/01/2008

Keller, an old sub-aquatic locomotive engineer, and his son Caelum witness a train collision and rescue from its wreckage Berenice, an orphaned pre-adolescent girl-snail. Keller and Caelum adopt Berenice as a member of their family. Keller even names his beloved steam engine after his "daughter". When Berenice reaches puberty, both Keller and Caelum fall in…

Sombra Dolorosa

By Guy Maddin | 00:07:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/2004

In this Maxi-Mexi-Melancolour short, the widow Paramo attempts to prevent further familial tragedy - her daughter Dolores wants to join her father, the recently deceased Don Paramo, in death - by taking on El Muerto, Death himself, in the wrestling ring. While the widow struggles in the ring with her undefeatable opponent, Doloroes jumps into…

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