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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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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…

R Seymore Goes North

By Rhayne Vermette | 00:03:24 | Animation | 01/01/2011

Precluding his destination, that morning, the sky receded into a peculiar darkness. Boarding the northern train, Mr. Seymore drifts through the murky turbulences of the night.

Dreams of Mourning

By Warren Nightingale | 00:05:00 | Animation, Experimental | 1/6/2004

A man wakes, only to find himself inside a painted landscape - a moving Monet. The dreamscape is in constant flux, nature reshapes and reforms around him, in conflict, like his desire to free himself of his surreal confinement. Will he be lost forever in this never ending fancy of disappear like a faded memory?

Muskeg Special

By Gregory Zbitnew | 01:54:00 | Documentary | 1/5/2007

'Muskeg Special' was one of the first 'official' Winnipeg Film Group productions back in 1979 when a group of intrepid independents ventured North with a 16mm Arriflex and the curiosity to discover what life was like in small communities along the Hudson Bay Rail line. That summer also marked the 50th Anniversary of completion of…

Great Divide, The

By Bryan Besant | 00:03:24 | Experimental | 01/05/2008

The Great Divide was created as a collaboration with Japanese artist Katsuyuki Hattori, and performed live as part of a video concert. The work is composed of video footage of the Arlington Bridge which sprawls over the often debated train yard and grain transportation depot which segregates the North End of Winnipeg from the rest…

Beep It

By Gregory Zbitnew | 00:08:35 | Documentary, Experimental | 01/01/2007

'Beep it! Beep it!' provides a 'behind-the-scenes' look at the production of 'Muskeg Special', which was filmed in communities along the Hudson Bay Rail Line in Northern Manitoba during the summer of 1979. To synchronize the sound recorded on reel-to-reel tape with images on the 16mm movie camera, an electronic 'beeper' was used to mark…

Nude Caboose

By Guy Maddin | 00:02:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/2006

A jovial shirtless man attempts to rouse a contingent of lethargic dancers to life in NUDE CABOOSE. His highjinks really get the deadbeats bustin' out until something unusual catches his eye. Dance floor seduction distilled into a fateful moment!

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