Movies: Matthew Rankin

Self-portrait of the filmmaker seen through the mystical postmodern prism of Iranian cinema...

A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg's civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own low-budget, lo-fi TV advertising produced between 1975 and 1992....

A demented parody of the Canadian government....

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 somebody's chest. Immediately, Dave Barber agrees, submitting his bare flesh to Maddin's road ki...

Only the electrifying courage and love of Québec nationalism can save the citizens of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide....

Artistic rivalry infects the Winnipeg public service. Strong words are uttered, regretted, retracted....

On a moonlit street corner, a Parisian waif sits dejectedly on a doorstep, mournfully clutching a dogless leash....

A found-footage followup to Kubasa in a Glass...

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...

A man confronts painful memories of a love affair now over. But he is perplexed by the appearance of a disgusting creature that he just can't get rid of. But can one really release oneself from the abominable things that haunt us?...