Editing Guy Maddin

{{Short description|Canadian director, screenwriter and author (born 1956)}}
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'''Guy Maddin''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|OM|size=100%}} (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, [[cinematographer]], [[film editor]] and [[installation artist]].<ref name="autogenerated1" /> He is known for his fascination with lost [[Silent film|Silent-era films]] and for incorporating their aesthetics into his own work.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/maddin-explores-the-then-and-now/article13286553/|title=How Guy Maddin's Seances uses lost silent films to explore our personal ghosts|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref> Maddin was appointed to the [[Order of Canada]], the country's highest civilian honour, in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/theatre/2012/06/29/order-of-canada/|title=Three Manitobans receive the country's highest honour|publisher=CBC News |access-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref>

Maddin began serving as a visiting lecturer at [[Harvard University]]'s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/people/guy-maddin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104212210/https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/people/guy-maddin|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 4, 2019|title=Guy Maddin {{!}} Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies|date=November 4, 2019|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/guy-maddin-i-wanted-to-cure-myself-of-myself-1.2461720|title=Guy Maddin: 'I wanted to cure myself of myself'|last=Clarke|first=Donald|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>

== Life and career ==
[[File:Guy Maddin (Berlin Film Festival 2011).jpg|thumb|Maddin at the sixty-first Berlin International Film Festival (2011)]]

=== Early life (1956–84) ===
Guy Maddin was born on February 28, 1956,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.screenslate.com/articles/metaphysical-edging-guy-maddin | title=Metaphysical Edging with Guy Maddin|date=March 1, 2021|author= Golum, Caroline|work=Screen Slate}}</ref> in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,<ref>{{cite book|title=501 Movie Directors|editor-first=Steven Jay|editor-last=Schneider|publisher=Cassell Illustrated|location=London|year=2007|page=568|isbn=9781844035731|oclc=1347156402}}</ref> to Herdis Maddin (a hairdresser) and Charles "Chas" Maddin (grain clerk and general manager of the Maroons, a Winnipeg hockey team). Maddin has three older siblings: Ross (b. 1944), Cameron (1946–63), and Janet (b. 1949). Maddin attended [[Winnipeg School Division|Winnipeg public schools]]: the Greenway School (elementary school), General Wolfe (junior high school), and the [[Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute]] (high school). In February 1963, his brother Cameron killed himself on the grave of his girlfriend, who had died in a car crash.<ref name="ChurchDavid" />

Maddin studied economics at the [[University of Winnipeg]], graduating in 1977.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} That same year, Maddin's father died suddenly after a [[stroke]],<ref name="ChurchDavid" /> and Maddin married Martha Jane Waugh. Their daughter, Jilian, was born in 1978, and Maddin and Waugh divorced in 1979.<ref name="Holm">Holm, D.K., ed. ''Guy Maddin: Interviews''. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 2010. Print.</ref>

After graduating, Maddin held a variety of odd jobs, including bank manager, house painter, and photo archivist. Maddin began to take film classes at the [[University of Manitoba]].<ref name="ChurchDavid">Church, David, ed. ''Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin''. Winnipeg: U of Manitoba P, 2009. Print.</ref> There, Maddin met film professor Stephen Snyder, who held regular film screenings of titles from the school's film library at his home. Maddin attended, as did some early collaborators, including his friend John Boles Harvie, the future star of Maddin's first film, and filmmaker [[John Paizs]].<ref name="vimeo">{{cite web|url=http://vimeo.com/11870294|title=''Waiting for Twilight''|author=Noam Gonick|year=1997|work=Documentary|access-date=November 21, 2012}}</ref> Maddin appeared as an actor in two of Paizs' short films, as a student in ''[[Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms]]'' (1982) and as a transvestite, homicidal nurse in ''[[The International Style]]'' (1983).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534665/|title=Guy Maddin |publisher=Internet Movie Database (IMDB)|access-date=November 21, 2012}}</ref> Maddin drew early inspiration from the films of John Paizs, as well as experimental shorts by Stephen Snyder.<ref name="ChurchDavid" /> Other early influences included ''[[L'Age d'Or]]'' by [[Luis Buñuel]] (in collaboration with [[Salvador Dalí]]) and ''[[Eraserhead]]'' by [[David Lynch]]. Maddin has stated that these films, along with the work of Paizs and Snyder, "were movies that were primitive in many respects. They were low budget, they used nonactors or nonstars, they used atmospheres and ideas, and were unbelievably honest, frank, and, therefore, exciting to me. They made moviemaking seem possible to me."<ref name="Holm" /> Maddin also met film professor George Toles, who became Maddin's cowriter on many of his future films. Maddin's core group of friends from this period, who played various roles in the production of his early film projects, were known as "the Drones" and included Harvie, Ian Handford, and Kyle McCulloch (now a writer for [[South Park]]).<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum">Vatnsdal, Caelum. ''Kino Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin''. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2000. Print. {{ISBN|1-894037-11-1}}</ref>

Maddin joined the [[Winnipeg Film Group]] around this time, and also became friends with producer Greg Klymkiw, with whom he began making a [[cable access]] television show, ''Survival'' (c. 1985–87). ''Survival'' was a satirical talk show centred around, as its opening credits noted, how "we must survive the inevitable social/economic collapse and/or [[nuclear holocaust]]". The show became a cult hit in Winnipeg and excerpts were re-released on the compilation DVD ''Winnipeg Babysitter''. Maddin plays a masked character on the show named "Concerned Citizen Stan".<ref>''Winnipeg Babysitter: An Incomplete, Local History of 1980s Public Access Television''. Curated and presented by Daniel Barrow. Videopool. DVD.</ref>

=== ''The Dead Father'' and ''Tales from the Gimli Hospital'' (1985–88) ===
Maddin's first short film (as director, writer, producer, and cinematographer) was ''[[The Dead Father (film)|The Dead Father]]'', a 25-minute black-and-white film about a young man whose father dies but continues to visit his family and disapprove of his son's life. Its budget is estimated at [[CA$]]5,000 ({{Inflation|CA|5000|1985|fmt=eq|cursign=[[Canadian dollar|CA$]]}}).<ref name="autogenerated1">Beard, William. ''Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin''. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. Print. {{ISBN|978-1442610668}}</ref> Maddin began shooting ''The Dead Father'' in 1982 and finished the film in 1985.<ref name="Holm" /> Spurred by the work of Snyder and Paizs, and together with Harvie and Handford, Maddin decided to begin making films and founded a film company called "Extra Large Productions" (they first decided on the name "Jumbo Productions" and went to get a jumbo pizza to celebrate, but changed the name when the pizzeria in Gimli, Manitoba, only served "extra large" pizzas).<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

Maddin cast John Harvie in the lead role as the son, and University of Manitoba medical professor Dr. Dan P. Snidal as the dead father. ''The Dead Father'' (1985) was shot in black-and-white on sixteen-millimetre film. The style of the film owes much to the work of the [[Surrealism|Surrealists]], with Maddin citing [[Luis Buñuel]] and [[Man Ray]] as its main influences.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" /> Critics{{who|date=March 2025}} cite, as an example of Maddin's dream-like tone, the climactic scene of the film, where the son attempts to resolve his relationship with his dead father by uncovering his corpse (hidden to sleep at night in some nearby brush) and attempting to devour his father using a large spoon—since the dead father awakens, the son cannot finish eating him and must instead pack his body away into a trunk in the family's attic.<ref>Kozak, John. ''Isolation in the 1980s: A historical collection from the Winnipeg Film Group''. Winnipeg Film Group. DVD notes.</ref> Although Maddin did not feel that the film's Winnipeg premiere had gone well, John Paizs convinced him to submit the film to the Toronto Film Festival and the festival accepted the film. At the festival Maddin met [[Atom Egoyan]], [[Jeremy Podeswa]], [[Norman Jewison]], and began to form connections with Canadian filmmakers across the national scene.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

Maddin next began work on his feature film debut, ''[[Tales from the Gimli Hospital]]'' (1988), also shot in black-and-white on sixteen-millimetre film. Kyle McCulloch starred in the film as Einar, a lonely fisherman who contracts smallpox and begins to compete with another patient, Gunnar (played by Michael Gottli) for the attention of the young nurses. Maddin had himself endured a recent period of male rivalry and noticed that he found himself "quite often forgetting the object of jealousy" and instead becoming "possessive of my rival".<ref name="vimeo" /> The film was originally titled ''Gimli Saga'' after the amateur history book produced locally by various Icelandic members of the community of   [[Gimli, Manitoba|Gimli]] (Maddin himself is Icelandic by ancestry).<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

Maddin's aunt Lil had recently retired from hairdressing, and allowed Maddin to use her beauty salon (also Maddin's childhood home) as a makeshift film studio (Lil appears in the film briefly as a "bedside vigil-sitter in one quick shot [taken] just a couple of days before she died" at the age of 85.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" /> After Maddin's mother sold the house/studio, Maddin completed the remaining shots of the film at various locations, including his own home, over a period of eighteen months. Maddin received a grant from the Manitoba Arts Council for CA$20,000 ({{Inflation|CA|20,000|1988|fmt=eq|cursign=[[Canadian dollar|CA$]]}}), and often cites that figure as the film's budget, although he has also estimated the actual budget to have been between CA$14,000 and CA$30,000.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

Although ''Tales from the Gimli Hospital'' upset some of the residents of Gimli, who believed that the film made light of the historical smallpox epidemic that ravaged the community, and was rejected by the [[Toronto Film Festival]], it nevertheless became a cult success and established Maddin's reputation in independent film circles.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" /> The film garnered the attention of [[Ben Barenholtz]], who had successfully distributed other cult films such as the [[John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]] film ''[[Pink Flamingos]]'' and David Lynch's debut feature ''[[Eraserhead]]''. ''Tales from the Gimli Hospital'' consequently succeeded on the festival circuit and screened for a full year as a midnight movie at a theatre in New York's [[Greenwich Village]].<ref name="vimeo" /> Maddin received a [[Genie award]] nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

=== ''Archangel'', ''Careful'', and ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' (1989–97) ===
Maddin's second feature, ''[[Archangel (1990 film)|Archangel]]'' (1990), fictionalizes in a general sense historical conflict related to the [[October Revolution|Bolshevik Revolution]] occurring in the Arkhangelsk (Archangel) region of Russia, a basic concept presented to Maddin by John Harvie.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" /> Boles, a Canadian soldier suffering from amnesia, arrives in the town of Archangel as World War I is ending (due to the Bolshevik uprising, it appears as if the townspeople have, like Boles, contracted amnesia and "forgotten" that the war is over). Boles confuses the warrior-woman Veronkha with his lost love Iris and pursues her throughout the fighting. Fellow "drone" Kyle McCulloch stars as Boles. The film marks Maddin's first formal collaboration with fellow screenwriter George Toles.

Maddin shot ''Archangel'' in black-and-white, on 16&nbsp;mm film, on a budget of CA$430,000.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Maddin modeled the film on the style of a [[part-talkie]], an early cinema genre. Film critic [[J. Hoberman]] praised the film, and noted that such stylistic approaches were typical of Maddin's growing body of work: "Maddin's most distinctive trait is an uncanny ability to exhume and redeploy forgotten cinematic  conventions."<ref>Hoberman, J. "Forgotten". ''Village Voice'' (July 23, 1991).</ref> ''Archangel'' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and in 1991 was awarded Best Experimental Film by the National Society of Film Critics.

Maddin's third feature, ''[[Careful (1992 film)|Careful]]'' (1992), was styled after another early cinema genre, the German mountain picture (or [[Mountain film|Bergfilm]]) — a surprising choice, given that (as filmmaker Caelum Vatnsdal has noted), "Winnipeg's highest peak is, in fact, an artificial hill that had been created by laying sod over a garbage dump."<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" /> Maddin was ordered by the producers to shoot in colour, and so ''Careful'' became Maddin's first colour film, shot on 16&nbsp;mm film with a budget of CA$1.1 million ({{Inflation|CA|1,100,000|1992|fmt=eq|cursign=[[Canadian dollar|CA$]]}}).<ref name="autogenerated1" /> the colour style of the film emulated the two colour Technicolor movies of the early 1930s. Kyle McCulloch again starred, alongside other Maddin regulars such as Brent Neale and Ross McMillan. At one point, [[Martin Scorsese]] had agreed to act in the film, as Count Knotkers, but bowed out to complete ''[[Cape Fear (1991 film)|Cape Fear]]''. Maddin pursued casting hockey star [[Bobby Hull]], but ended up casting [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]].<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

''Careful,'' also cowritten by George Toles, is set in the mountain town of Tolzbad, where the townspeople are forced to repress their behaviour pathologically, since the slightest expression of emotion can trigger a devastating avalanche. Brothers Grigorss (McCulloch) and Johann (Neale) seem secure of bright futures as butlers, but Johann becomes incestuously obsessed with their widowed mother (driving him away from his fiancé and towards a dramatic suicide). Grigorss, who is in love with Klara, begins to work for Count Knotkers, who also harbours love for Grigorss' mother. Klara convinces Grigorss to duel the Count, resulting in the death of his mother, Klara's father, Klara, and finally Grigorss himself. ''Careful'' premiered at the New York Film Festival and, although it was not a commercial success elsewhere, "single-handedly saved a struggling art-house cinema in Missoula, Montana" where "sell-out crowds had filled the house twice every night for two weeks".<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

For his next feature film, written by Toles, Maddin attempted to make an operetta called ''The Dikemaster's Daughter'' "set in a nineteenth-century Holland populated almost entirely by opera singers and dike-building navvies" about "a short-lived romance between the titular daughter and a fey opera singer". The singer is killed and the daughter is forced to marry a dike-builder who is also killed. A local alchemist then constructs an automaton copy of the latter, which the daughter succeeds in having implanted with two hearts (of both her opera singer love and her dike-builder husband) and a lever that switches control of the mechanical body between the two hearts. The movie was to feature [[Christopher Lee]] and [[Leni Riefenstahl]], but [[Telefilm]] Canada "declared the project a 'lateral move'" for Maddin and the movie could not secure enough funding, so was aborted.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

Maddin consequently flirted with the idea of moving to Los Angeles to become a director-for-hire. He met with Claudia Lewis, who worked for [[Fox Searchlight]], but Maddin found himself dispirited with the projects he was offered: "I remember one was a love story set in a TB sanatorium. The only thing odd or bizarre about it was the very off-putting sight of people horking up blood and phlegm into little paper cups, and these paper cups would accumulate in volume until there were moonlit paper cups of phlegm floating on a lake, and it was supposed to be very beautiful, but it was nauseating. I'm making it sound better than it was, actually."<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" /> Maddin also directed the TV film ''The Hands of Ida'' (which he "later repudiated") and married Elise Moore in 1995 (the marriage ended in 1997),<ref name="Holm" /> and directed the short film ''[[Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity]]'' (which was commissioned by the [[BBC]] and won a Special Jury Citation at the Toronto International Film festival).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=odilonredon&mode=filmmaker|title=Guy Maddin|publisher=Zeitgeist Films|access-date=November 21, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603072340/http://zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=odilonredon&mode=filmmaker|archive-date=June 3, 2012}}</ref> In 1995, Maddin also became the youngest recipient ever of the Telluride Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/maddin/|title=Guy Maddin|magazine=Senses of Cinema|access-date=November 21, 2012}}</ref>

Maddin's fourth feature, also scripted by Toles and inspired by the novel ''Pan'' by [[Knut Hamsun]], ended up being ''[[Twilight of the Ice Nymphs]]'' (1997), his second in colour and his first shot in [[35 mm movie film|35&nbsp;mm]], on a budget of CA$1.5 million ({{Inflation|CA|1,500,000|1997|fmt=eq|cursign=[[Canadian dollar|CA$]]}}).<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Set in the fictional land of Mandragora, where the sun does not set, a newly released convict returns to his family's ostrich farm and is embroiled in a host of romantic complications involving a heavy-breasted statue of Venus. ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' featured [[Shelley Duvall]] and [[Frank Gorshin]]; The film's star, [[Nigel Whitmey]], had his name removed from the film's credits after Maddin chose to remove Whitmey's voice from the film and replace it with Ross McMillan's.

As seen in [[Noam Gonick]]'s documentary ''Waiting for Twilight'', Maddin was dissatisfied with the film-making process due to such creative interference from his producers, saying "just close the mausoleum lid on me" since he was possibly done making films.<ref name="vimeo" /> Maddin then entered a relatively "fallow period" although he continued to make short films, music videos (including the video for the song "It's a Wonderful Life" by [[Sparklehorse]]), and advertisements.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

=== ''The Heart of the World'', ''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary'', ''The Saddest Music in the World'' (1998–2003) ===
During his break from making feature films, Maddin began teaching film classes at the University of Manitoba, where he met and encouraged the younger filmmaker [[Deco Dawson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2012/book-reviews/into-the-past-the-cinema-of-guy-maddin-by-william-beard-and-playing-with-memories-essays-on-guy-maddin-edited-by-david-church/|title=''Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin'' by William Beard; and ''Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin'' edited by David Church|access-date=December 21, 2012}}</ref> After being impressed with Dawson's short films, Maddin hired Dawson to work on a short film for the Toronto International Film Festival — Maddin was one of a number of directors (including [[Atom Egoyan]] and [[David Cronenberg]]) commissioned to make four-minute short films that would screen prior to the various feature films at the 2000 festival.<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" /><ref name="Canada Council for the Arts">{{cite web|url=http://www.canadacouncil.ca/aboutus/artistsstories/MediaArts/lh127922673794312080.htm|title=Guy Maddin: Imagining 'entirely original worlds'|publisher=Canada Council for the Arts|access-date=December 12, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601094857/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/aboutus/artistsstories/MediaArts/lh127922673794312080.htm|archive-date=June 1, 2013}}</ref> After hearing rumours that other directors were planning films with a small number of shots, Maddin decided that his film would instead contain over a hundred shots per minute, and enough plot for a feature-length film. Maddin then wrote and shot ''[[The Heart of the World]]'' (2000) in the style of [[Russian constructivism]], taking the commission at its literal face value, as a call to produce a propaganda film. The plot of ''The Heart of the World'' concerns two brothers, Osip and Nikolai, who compete for the love of the same woman: Anna, a state scientist studying Earth's core. Anna discovers that the heart of the world is in danger of a fatal heart attack (which would mean the end of the world), and the brothers compete amongst the public panic. Nikolai is a mortician and tries to impress Anna with assembly-line embalming, while Osip is an actor playing Christ in the [[Passion Play]] and tries to impress Anna through his suffering. Anna is instead seduced by an evil capitalist, but has a change of heart and strangles the plutocrat, then slides down into the heart of the world, where she manages to save the world from destruction by transforming into cinema itself, the world's "new and better heart — Kino!"<ref>''The Guy Maddin Collection''. Dir. Guy Maddin. Zeitgeist Video, 2002. DVD.</ref> ''The Heart of the World'' won a 2001 [[Genie Award]] for Best Short, and the 2001 U.S. National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film (the same award Maddin had won in 1991 for ''Archangel'').<ref name="Canada Council for the Arts" />

The success of ''The Heart of the World'' marked the beginning of a productive period for Maddin, who produced five feature films within the following eight years. Maddin's next feature deepened but also ended his collaboration with Deco Dawson, who was credited as "Editor and Associate Director" on ''[[Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary]]'' (2002). Maddin and Dawson had a falling out in the wake of the production and have not worked together again (Dawson nevertheless spoke kindly of Maddin's following feature, ''The Saddest Music in the World''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/historic/31385949.html|title=Maddin-dawson split plays like a film tragedy|date=September 19, 2003 |access-date=December 22, 2012}}</ref> ''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary'' was budgeted at $1.7-million<ref name="autogenerated1" /> and produced for the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) as a dance film documenting a performance by the [[Royal Winnipeg Ballet]] adapting [[Bram Stoker]]'s novel ''[[Dracula]]''. Maddin elected to shoot the dance film in a fashion uncommon for such films, through close-ups and using jump cuts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?p=6131|title=Brilliant Inaccuracies|author=Jonathan Rosenbaum|access-date=December 22, 2012}}</ref> Maddin also stayed close to the source material of Stoker's novel, emphasizing the [[xenophobia]] in the reactions of the main characters to Dracula (played by Zhang Wei-Qiang in Maddin's film). The resulting film was greeted with critical acclaim, with an 84% average rating<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/dracula-pages-from-a-virgins-diary|title=Metacritic Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]] }}</ref> on [[Metacritic]] and an 85% "Fresh" rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dracula_pages_from_a_virgins_diary/|title=Rotten Tomatoes|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film 3½ stars out of 4, writing that "so many films are more or less alike that it's jolting to see a film that deals with a familiar story, but looks like no other." ''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary'' won first prize (Prague D'Or) at the 2002 Golden Prague Television Festival, two 2002 [[Gemini Awards]] for Best Canadian Performing Arts Show and Best Direction, and a 2002 International [[Emmy]] for Best Performing Arts. Originally a television feature, ''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary'' was released theatrically in 2003.<ref>''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary''. Dir. Guy Maddin. Zeitgeist, 2004. DVD.</ref>

Maddin's next feature, ''[[The Saddest Music in the World]]'' (2003) was budgeted at $3.8-million<ref name="autogenerated1" /> (a large budget in Canadian terms) and shot over 24 days.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-05-06/film/sad-songs-say-so-much/1/|title=Sad Songs Say So Much: Prosthetics and Process: A Shooting Journal|author=Guy Maddin|access-date=December 12, 2012}}</ref> The film was Maddin's first collaboration with [[Isabella Rossellini]], who subsequently appeared in a number of Maddin's films, and cocreated a film with him about her father [[Roberto Rossellini]]. The film also starred [[Mark McKinney]] (of the comedy troupe [[Kids in the Hall]]), [[Maria de Medeiros]], [[David Fox (actor)|David Fox]], and [[Ross McMillan]]. Maddin and cowriter Toles based the film on an original screenplay written by [[Booker Prize]]-winning novelist [[Kazuo Ishiguro]], from which they kept "the title, the premise and the contest – to determine which country's music was the saddest" but otherwise re-wrote.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jonathanball.com/guy-maddin-and-george-toles-interview/|title=Guy Maddin and George Toles interviewed about writing The Saddest Music in the World|first=Jonathan|last=Ball|date=October 19, 2012}}</ref> The action of ''The Saddest Music in the World'' centres around a contest run by Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntley (Rossellini) to discover which country has the saddest music in the world. Chester Kent (McKinney), a failed Broadway producer, returns home to Winnipeg and competes with his father Fyodor (Fox) and brother Roderick (McMillan) to win the contest and its $25,000 prize. It's discovered that Chester's girlfriend, Narcissa (de Medeiros) was Roderick's wife but forgot this due to amnesia resulting from the death of their son (Roderick keeps his son's heart in a jar that travels with him). Chester reunites with Port-Huntley, his former lover, who lost her legs in a car accident. Fyodor, who is in love with Port-Huntley, has built prosthetic legs for her out of glass (and filled with beer), which she loves although she spurns Fyodor, leading to his drunken death. As the contest proceeds, things end tragically. ''The Saddest Music in the World'' won a number of awards, including three Genie Awards (Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Achievement in Editing, and Best Achievement in Music, Original Score) and Maddin was also nominated for Best Achievement in Direction. Maddin received the same nomination from the Directors Guild of Canada, who awarded the film Outstanding Achievement in Production Design, Feature Film, and Maddin won the Film Discovery Jury Award for Best Director at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

=== ''Cowards Bend the Knee'', ''Brand Upon the Brain!'', ''My Winnipeg'' (2003–07) ===
While in pre-production on ''The Saddest Music in the World'', Maddin directed ''[[Cowards Bend the Knee]]'' (2003), shooting entirely on Super-8mm film<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acmi.net.au/fo_maddin_cowards.aspx|title=Cowards Bend the Knee|publisher=[[Australian Centre for the Moving Image]] (ACMI)|access-date=December 21, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618225634/http://www.acmi.net.au/fo_maddin_cowards.aspx|archive-date=June 18, 2012}}</ref> with a budget of $30,000.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Developed as a series of short films, commissioned as part of an installation art project by Toronto art gallery The Power Plant that was curated by Philip Monk, these 10 short films, collected together, constituted a short feature, so that Maddin ended up completing and releasing two feature films in 2003.<ref name="Maddin, Guy 2003">Maddin, Guy. ''Cowards Bend the Knee''. Toronto: The Power Plant, 2003. Print.</ref> ''Cowards Bend the Knee'' is the first in Maddin's "autobiographical 'Me Trilogy'" of feature films starring protagonists named "Guy Maddin", the second being ''[[Brand Upon the Brain!]]'' (2006) and ''[[My Winnipeg]]'' (2007).<ref name="autogenerated2">Wershler, Darren. ''Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg''. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. Print. {{ISBN|978-1-44261134-4}}</ref> ''Cowards Bend the Knee'' concerns the murderous exploits of a young "Guy Maddin" (played by [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0991671/ Darcy Fehr]), a hockey player whose forgets his beloved as she dies through complications during an illegal abortion. Guy becomes entwined in a love affair with the daughter of the abortionist, who compels him to murder her mother to revenge the death of her father. Guy meanwhile falls in love with the ghost of his dead lover, not recognizing her, and competes with his own father for her affection. Maddin based the film's premise loosely on the story ''[[The Hands of Ida]]'' and Euripedes's play ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]''. Critic J. Hoberman of ''The Village Voice'' called the film "Maddin's masterpiece", noting that the film "not only plays like a dream but feels like one".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-09-20/screens/hardcore-hallucination-an-experimental-peep-show/|title=Hardcore Hallucination: An Experimental Peep Show|author=J. Hoberman|access-date=December 22, 2012|archive-date=September 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054718/http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-09-20/screens/hardcore-hallucination-an-experimental-peep-show/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Maddin was next approached by the Seattle-based not-for-profit film production company called The Film Company and offered a budget to make any film he wanted, with complete freedom as long as he shot it in Seattle with local actors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifc.com/fix/2006/10/guy-maddins-brand-upon-the-bra|title=Guy Maddin's ''Brand Upon the Brain!''|publisher=IFC FIX|access-date=December 21, 2012}}</ref> Maddin ended up producing ''Brand Upon the Brain!'' (2006), from a script cowritten by Toles, shooting the film over nine days and editing it over three months<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/856ddc00-20be-11dc-8d50-000b5df10621.html#axzz2FuoP8mCQ|title=Maddest movies in the world|author=Nigel Andrews|access-date=December 22, 2012}}</ref> with an estimated budget of $40,000.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> The plot concerns "Guy Maddin" (played by Erik Steffen Maahs as an adult, and Sullivan Brown as a child), whose domineering mother runs a lighthouse orphanage on an island where she and her husband perform scientific experiments upon the children in an effort to extend her youth. ''Brand Upon the Brain!'' was shot as a silent film, and premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was accompanied by a live orchestra, singer, an interlocutor (in the style of Japanese ''[[benshi]]''), and [[Foley (filmmaking)|Foley]] artists. The film was toured across North America in a similar fashion, with a host of celebrity narrators including [[Crispin Glover]] and [[John Ashbery]]. The film's normal theatrical run featured narration by [[Isabella Rossellini]].<ref>''Brand Upon the Brain!'' Dir. Guy Maddin. Produced by The Film Company, 2006. DVD distributed by Criterion Collection, 2008.</ref> In 2006, Maddin was presented with two lifetime achievement awards, the Persistence of Vision Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Manitoba Arts Council's Award of Distinction. Roger Ebert wrote, of the film and Maddin's work in general, that "For me, Maddin seems to penetrate to the hidden layers beneath the surface of the movies, revealing a surrealistic underworld of fears, fantasies and obsessions."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brand-upon-the-brain-2007|title=''A mind-bender from Guy Maddin''|author=Roger Ebert|access-date=December 20, 2012|work=Chicago Sun-Times}}</ref>

Maddin's next feature stemmed from a commission to produce a documentary film about his hometown of Winnipeg, for which Maddin's producer directed "Don't give me the frozen hellhole everyone knows that Winnipeg is." Taking what he described as a "docufantasia" approach that melded "personal history, civic tragedy, and mystical hypothesizing",<ref>Maddin, Guy. ''My Winnipeg''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009. Print.</ref> Maddin produced ''My Winnipeg'' (2008), with a budget of $500,000.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Maddin re-cast Darcy Fehr in the role of "Guy Maddin" and structured the documentary around a metafictional plot whereby "Guy Maddin" attempts to "film his way out" of the frozen city. Maddin rents out his former home and hires actors to play his family (including [[Ann Savage (actress)|Ann Savage]] as his mother) in the recreation of pivotal scenes from his memories of youth. Along the way, Maddin documents facts, rumours, and fabricated myths about Winnipeg, including the demolition of the Winnipeg hockey arena (during the period after the sale of the [[Winnipeg Jets]] had left the city without a national hockey team), an epidemic of sleepwalking, the ghosts of frozen horse heads returning every winter when the rivers freeze over, and [[If Day]] (an actual historical event when a faked Nazi invasion of the city was mounted during World War II to promote the sale of war bonds). ''My Winnipeg'' received the award for Best Canadian Feature Film from the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Best Documentary from the 2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Canadian Film from the 2008 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, and Best Experimental Documentary from the 2009 International Urban Film Festival, Tehran.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} In 2007, Maddin also became the first artist-curator of the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faraheim.com/guy-maddin|title=Guy Maddin biography}}</ref>

=== ''Keyhole'', ''Hauntings'', ''Seances'', ''The Forbidden Room'' and ''The Green Fog'' (2008–2017) ===
Maddin soon received two other career awards, the Filmmaker on the Edge Award at the 2009 [[Provincetown International Film Festival]] and the 2010 Canada Council for the Arts Bell Award in Video Art for lifetime achievement in the field. Maddin then returned to installation art with a commission to celebrate the opening of the Bell Lightbox cultural centre in Toronto, producing an installation series titled ''Hauntings'' based on the concept of reimagining lost films from the silent film era that are known to have existed or been planned by influential filmmakers, but either destroyed or not produced.<ref name="John Semley">{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/essential/specialcommissions/guy|title='Guy Maddin Haunts the Lightbox With His Cinematic Spooks'|author=John Semley|date=September 13, 2010|publisher=Torontoist|access-date=December 21, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910115341/http://tiff.net/essential/specialcommissions/guy|archive-date=September 10, 2011}}</ref> In December 2010, Maddin married the L.A. film critic Kim Morgan, and they separated in 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Maddin-to-marry-LA-film-critic-111275259.html|title=Maddin to marry L.A. film critic|author=Randall King|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=December 10, 2012}}</ref>

Maddin shot his tenth feature film, ''[[Keyhole (film)|Keyhole]]'' (2011), digitally rather than his usual method of shooting on sixteen-millimetre or Super-8.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://keyhole-movie.tumblr.com/page/4|title=Guy Maddin's Keyhole: A Post Production Diary|author=Matt Cahill|access-date=December 21, 2012}}</ref> Filming began in [[Winnipeg]] on July 6, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|last=King|first=Randall|date=June 12, 2010|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/movies/maddin-movie-part-of-local-film-boom-96204184.html|title=Maddin movie part of local film boom|work=[[Winnipeg Free Press]]|access-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref> The film screened at the 2011 [[Toronto International Film Festival]]<ref name="TIFF">{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/keyhole|title=TIFF Special Presentation|work=TIFF.net|access-date=January 9, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116040718/http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/keyhole|archive-date=January 16, 2012}}</ref> and the 2011 [[Whistler Film Festival]], where it won the Best Canadian Film Award.<ref name="Whistler Film Festival">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/keyhole-takes-best-canadian-film-award-at-whistler-film-festival|title="Keyhole" Takes Best Canadian Film Award at Whistler Film Festival |work=[[indiewire]]|date=December 5, 2011 |access-date=January 9, 2012}}</ref> In 2012, ''Keyhole'' screened at the [[South by Southwest]] Film Festival,<ref name="South by Southwest">{{cite web|url=http://www.soundonsight.org/south-by-southwest-2012-lineup-features-65-world-premieres/|title=South By Southwest 2012 Lineup Features 65 World Premieres|work=Sound on Sight| author= RICKY|access-date=March 1, 2012}}</ref><ref name="South By Southwest Film Festival">{{cite web|url=http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12376 |title=SX Schedule – Keyhole | work= SX Schedule|access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref> the [[Independent Film Festival of Boston]],<ref name="Independent Film Festival of Boston">{{cite web | url=http://www.iffboston.org/2012/filmlist.php/ | title=Independent Film Festival of Boston 2012 Lineup | work=www.iffboston.org | access-date=March 29, 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203091539/http://www.iffboston.org/2012/filmlist.php | archive-date=December 3, 2012}}</ref> the [[Wisconsin Film Festival]],<ref name="Wisconsin Film Festival">{{cite web|url=http://guide.wifilmfest.org/|title=Wisconsin Film Festival 2012 Lineup |work=www.wifilmfest.org| access-date=March 29, 2012}}</ref> [[Fantasporto]],<ref name="Fantasporto">{{cite web|url=https://www.dn.pt/inicio/artes/interior.aspx?content_id=2235530&seccao=Cinema|work=[[Diário de Notícias]]|title=Fantasporto gets debut of Portuguese Conjugal Morality|access-date=February 27, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020170834/http://www.dn.pt/inicio/artes/interior.aspx?content_id=2235530&seccao=Cinema|archive-date=October 20, 2014}}</ref> and the [[Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlin">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/extremely-loud-and-flowers-of-war-among-first-5-berlin-competition-titles|title=Berlin Announces 10 Titles|work=[[indiewire]]|date=December 19, 2011 |access-date=January 9, 2012}}</ref> The film was released theatrically in 2012.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.fangoria.com/index.php/home/all-news/1-latest-news/6688-guy-maddins-keyhole-release-details|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122192538/http://www.fangoria.com/index.php/home/all-news/1-latest-news/6688-guy-maddins-keyhole-release-details|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 22, 2013|title=Guy Maddin's ''Keyhole'' Release Details|magazine=Fangoria|access-date=December 22, 2012}}</ref> ''Keyhole'' stars [[Jason Patric]] as Ulysses Pick, a gangster who leads his gang to break into his former home and odysseys through the haunted house (in a plot inspired by Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]''), searching room-by-room to find his wife Hyacinth [[Isabella Rossellini]]. The film was cowritten by Maddin and Toles and also stars [[Udo Kier]], [[Brooke Palsson]], [[David Wontner]], [[Louis Negin]], and [[Kevin McDonald]] from the comedy troupe [[Kids in the Hall]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Brown|first=Todd|date=March 4, 2011|url=http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/03/exclusive-first-look-at-guy-maddins-keyhole.php|title=Exclusive First Look At Guy Maddin's ''Keyhole''|work=[[Twitch Film]]|access-date=July 26, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831145649/http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/03/exclusive-first-look-at-guy-maddins-keyhole.php|archive-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref>

Also in 2011, Maddin participated in [[Performa (performance festival)|Performa]] 11 with [http://archive.performa-arts.org/archive/11b-pc-0003 ''Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed''] '','' an ambitious live performance that reframes the original 1988 film. Maddin and the composer Matthew Patton gathered a group of musicians to compose and perform the new score which centered on Icelandic musician [[Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir]].

In 2012, Maddin produced another installation for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, ''Only Dream Things'', for which he recreated his childhood bedroom and produced a short film by manipulating his family's home movies.<ref name="CBC Manitoba SCENE">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/homepage-promo/2012/09/29/post-42/|title='Guy Maddin brings his childhood to the Winnipeg Art Gallery'|publisher=CBC Manitoba SCENE|access-date=December 21, 2012}}</ref><ref name="The Globe and Mail">{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/guy-maddins-haunting-tapestry-of-memory/article4591799/|title='Guy Maddin's haunting tapestry of memory'|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|access-date=December 21, 2012|location=Toronto|date=October 5, 2012}}</ref>

Maddin expanded the approach of his ''Hauntings'' installation into another film/installation project, ''[[Seances (film)|Seances]]'', which combines "a film shoot, an experience and an installation, which will subsequently become an interactive work".<ref name="Seances Guy Maddin">{{Cite web|url=http://phi-centre.com/en/events/id/Seances|title=Seances Guy Maddin|date=2013|publisher=PHI|access-date=December 6, 2014}}</ref> Maddin started shooting ''Seances'' in 2012 in Paris, France at the [[Centre Georges Pompidou]] and continued shooting at the Phi Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<ref name="Seances Guy Maddin" /> The film shoots themselves were presented as art installation projects, during which Maddin, along with the cast and crew, held a "séance" during which Maddin "invite[d] the spirit of a lost photoplay to possess them".<ref name="MaddinGuy" /> ''Seances'' will be launched online by the [[National Film Board of Canada]] in 2015, in an interactive web project that allows users to  randomly generate a combination of the 100 short films, "connected together into a paranormally eerie, semi-coherent whole." The number of films will ensure "hundreds of billions of unique permutations".<ref name="MaddinGuy" /><ref name=Ball /><ref name=Woods>{{cite news|last=Woods|first=Allan|title=Guy Maddin's performance art installation Seances begins filming in Montreal|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/07/04/guy_maddins_performance_art_installation_seances_begins_filming_in_montreal.html|access-date=July 10, 2013|newspaper=[[Toronto Star]]|date=July 4, 2013}}</ref><ref name="RomneyJonathan">Romney, Jonathan. "A Canadian in Paris". ''Sight & Sound'' (May 2012).</ref>

Maddin and [[Evan Johnson (filmmaker)|Evan Johnson]] also co-directed and shot, concurrently, a feature film titled ''[[The Forbidden Room (2015 film)|The Forbidden Room]]'', with the same writers. Although often misreported as the same project, ''The Forbidden Room'' "is a feature film with its own separate story and stars" while "''Seances'' will be an interactive Internet project."<ref name=Ball>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jonathanball.com/guy-maddin-on-the-forbidden-room-and-writing-melodrama/|title=Guy Maddin on The Forbidden Room and Writing Melodrama |date=December 5, 2014|last=Ball|first=Jonathan|work=Dr. Jonathan Ball: Writing the Wrong Way (interview with Guy Maddin)|access-date=December 6, 2014}}</ref> ''The Forbidden Room'' is Maddin's eleventh feature film, with its world premiere in January 2015 at the [[Sundance Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/spotlight-midnight-and-new-frontier-films-announced-for-2015-festival|title=Sundance Institute Announces Spotlight, Park City and Midnight, New Frontier for 2015 Sundance Film Festival |date=December 4, 2014|publisher=Sundance Institute (blog)|access-date=December 6, 2014}}</ref>

Maddin's next feature film, ''[[The Green Fog]]'' (2017), premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 16, 2017. The film features a score by composer Jacob Garchik, performed by [[Kronos Quartet]], and is a collage-film, "a scene-by-scene reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock's ''Vertigo'' {{sic|comprised |hide=y|entirely of}} Bay Area film footage from a variety of sources — '50s noir, experimental films, '70s prime-time TV, and more."<ref name="SFStation">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfstation.com/the-green-fog-with-guy-maddin-kronos-quartet-sffilm-festival-closing-night-party-e2312833|title=THE GREEN FOG with Guy Maddin + Kronos Quartet &#124; SFFILM Festival Closing Night + Party |date=April 16, 2017|publisher=SFStation |access-date=June 17, 2017}}</ref><ref name="IndieWire">{{cite news|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/vertigo-remake-guy-madden-the-green-fog-interview-1201805968/|title='Vertigo' Revisited: Guy Maddin Explores Hitchcock's Classic With Found Footage — SF International Film Festival &#124; IndieWire |date=April 15, 2017|work=IndieWire |access-date=June 17, 2017}}</ref>

== Installations ==
Maddin's installations generally include short films screened in unusual fashions, and draw on both his autobiography and on the history of cinema.

=== ''Cowards Bend the Knee'' (2003) ===
Maddin was commissioned by The Power Plant gallery in Toronto and, in an installation curated by Philip Monk, produced a series of ten short films.<ref name="Maddin, Guy 2003" /> The exhibition premiered at the 42nd [[International Film Festival Rotterdam]] from January 22 to February 2, 2003, where the catalogue described it as "A firstofitskind, tenpart peephole installation jampacked with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a neverending cliffhanger."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/cowards-bend-the-knee/|title='Cowards Bend the Knee'|publisher=International Film Festival Rotterdam|access-date=December 21, 2012}}</ref> Each six-minute film is viewed through a peephole and together present a fictionalised autobiography, whose main character (named "Guy Maddin") is embroiled in illegal abortion, murderous intrigue, sexual rivalry, and hockey. The installation was also exhibited at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto from March 22 to May 25, 2003.<ref name="Maddin, Guy 2003" /> A literary screenplay for the film was also published by the gallery, and the short films were collected together as a feature film (released theatrically and to DVD).

=== ''Hauntings'' (2010) ===
Maddin was commissioned to produce an installation for the opening of the [[Toronto International Film Festival]]'s [[Bell Lightbox]], a cultural centre and skyscraper, and configured eleven screens to show a series of original short films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/essential/specialcommissions/guy|title='Hauntings I & II'|publisher=Toronto International Film Festival|access-date=December 21, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910115341/http://tiff.net/essential/specialcommissions/guy|archive-date=September 10, 2011}}</ref> The films consisted of reimagined "lost" films by famous directors that have been lost, destroyed or unrealized. Maddin stated in the press that "I've been literally haunted by the idea that there are these really intriguing titles by some of my favourite filmmakers that I'd never get to see [... and] I told myself years ago that the only way I'd get to see any version of these is if I made the adaptation myself."<ref name="John Semley" /> The installation was also exhibited at Winnipeg's Platform Gallery from September 2 to October 2, 2011, for the WNDX Festival of Moving Image<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wndx.org/hauntings/|title='Guy Maddin's Hauntings'|date=September 2, 2011 |publisher=WNDX Festival of Moving Image|access-date=December 21, 2012}}</ref> and at Concordia University's FOFA (Faculty of Fine Arts) Gallery from June 1–10, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/GuyMaddinsHauntingsI.htm|title='Guy Maddin's Hauntings I'|publisher=FOFA|access-date=December 21, 2012}}</ref>

=== ''Only Dream Things'' (2012) ===
For a 2012 installation at the [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]], Maddin re-created his teenage bedroom.<ref name="CBC Manitoba SCENE" /> On the wall of the re-created bedroom screens a 19-minute short film Maddin produced by digitally distressing his family's home movies.<ref name="The Globe and Mail" />

=== ''Seances'' (2012–2015) ===
Expanding the approach of his ''Hauntings'' installation, Maddin's ongoing film/installation project, [[Seances (film)|Seances]]. The film shoots were open to the public and streamed online, and thereby presented as live art installation projects, during which Maddin, along with the cast and crew, held a séance "invit[ing] the spirit of a lost photoplay to possess them".<ref name="MaddinGuy">Maddin, Guy, Evan Johnson and Robert Kotyk. ''Séances: Project Manual''. Designed by Galen Johnson. Cinema Atelier Tovar, 2012.</ref> The cameras used to record the shoots also live-streams their video online. Other writers on the project include [[Evan Johnson (filmmaker)|Evan Johnson]], Robert Kotyk, film critic Kim Morgan, and US poet [[John Ashbery]]. In 2015, the Maddin and [[National Film Board of Canada]] will release "''Seances'' [as] an interactive Internet project".<ref name="Ball" />

== Books by Maddin ==

=== ''From the Atelier Tovar: Selecting Writings'' (2003) ===
Maddin's first book (followed the same year by ''Cowards Bend the Knee'') contains selected "journalism, treatments for films made and unmade and [. . .] selection[s] from the director's [. . .] personal journals" and also "candid photos and unpublished storyboards".<ref>Maddin, Guy. ''From the Atelier Tovar: Selecting Writings''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003. Print.</ref> The book is introduced by film critic [[Mark Peranson]] and published by [[Coach House Books]].

Maddin's journalism features reviews of a variety of films, from ''Minority Report'' to ''The Seven Samurai'', an article on the making of Maddin's feature ''[[The Saddest Music in the World]]'', and writing on Bollywood melodramas. The book contains four film treatments, for the short films ''[[The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Towards Infinity]]'', ''Maldoror:Tygers'', and the feature film ''[[Careful (1992 film)|Careful]]''. The longest treatment is for an unmade film called ''The Child Without Qualities'', an autobiographical work that reads like an experimental short story. This unfinished short film's title alludes to the title of [[Robert Musil]]'s unfinished novel ''[[The Man Without Qualities]]''.

=== ''Cowards Bend the Knee'' (2003) ===
Maddin wrote a treatment for the feature film ''[[Cowards Bend the Knee]]'', which he published as a book through The Power Plant, the public art gallery in Toronto that commissioned the installation art show that both served as Maddin's first major foray as an installation artist and for which Maddin produced the series of film "chapters" that collectively make up the feature film.

The book contains a foreword by [[Wayne Baerwaldt]] (then-Director of The Power Plant) and an introduction by Philip Monk, who also edited the book and curated Maddin's installation. The main text is followed by an interview with Guy Maddin conducted by [[Robert Enright]]. The book also contains stills from the film and a list of credits for the film.

Most of the text is Maddin's treatment for the film, which follows the same plot. In the words of Baerwaldt, the story is a fictional "autobiography [that] features a diabolical plot surrounding a coward on a mission [named Guy Maddin] that resembles a cycle of dark spectacles dressed up as, among other things, lewd seduction, Canadian hockey, murder, amputations, hair design, general mayhem, fetish attractions and heartfelt loss."<ref name="Maddin, Guy 2003" />

In the interview with Enright, Maddin notes that the book's genesis began with Maddin's intention to clarify the narrative of his films, since <blockquote>"it is a source of continuing frustration that people would say --- and it was always a compliment --- we really like your films, they're so [[non-narrative film|non-narrative]]. So I thought, damnit, I'm going to get a story that people are going to recognize, something that has legs. I started reading Greek tragedy, ''Electra'', ''Medea'' and stuff like that, and basically I just took some premises from these super-durable stories. The things I end up layering around these rock-solid premises are invariably pure autobiography [. . .] once I slipped away what little remained of Euripides, what was left was some core sample of me."<ref name="Maddin, Guy 2003" /></blockquote>

Maddin's book treatment is written in a highly literary fashion that is not typical of screen treatments, so that the text reads like a literary work rather than a blueprint for the film: "It is the night before the [Winnipeg] Maroons' first game against the Soviets. Meta and Guy lie in bed, in the midst of a particularly spectacular recital of what could be called THE LIMBO-DANCE OF SELF-PITY --- a verbal choreography performed by lovers who manipulate each other through complicated displays of insincere self-loathing. Participants enter the Limbo in hopes of restructuring the unspoken terms of their relationship."<ref name="Maddin, Guy 2003" />

=== ''My Winnipeg'' (2009) ===
Maddin also released a book titled ''My Winnipeg'' (Coach House Books, 2009).<ref>Maddin, Guy. ''My Winnipeg''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009.</ref> Maddin's book contains the film's narration as a main text surrounded by annotations, including outtakes, marginal notes and digressions, production stills, family photos, and miscellaneous material.

The book contains a "Winnipeg Map" by artist [[Marcel Dzama]] featuring such fictional attractions as "The Giant Squid of the Red [River]", various poster designs for the film, and short articles about working with Maddin by [[Andy Smetanka]], [[Darcy Fehr]], and Caelum Vatnsdal. Maddin also includes an angry e-mail from an ex-girlfriend, collages and notebooks pages, and an X-ray of the dog Spanky from the film.

The book also includes an interview with Maddin's mother Herdis, conducted by [[Ann Savage (actress)|Ann Savage]], and an interview with Maddin conducted by [[Michael Ondaatje]].

== Books about Maddin ==

=== William Beard: ''Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin'' ===
William Beard, a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.efs.ualberta.ca/People/Faculty/WilliamBeard.aspx|title=Faculty page at U of Alberta|access-date=January 5, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116071859/http://www.efs.ualberta.ca/People/Faculty/WilliamBeard.aspx|archive-date=November 16, 2012}}</ref> authored a critical book focused on Maddin's work up until 2010, focusing chapter-by-chapter on Maddin's feature films and also discussing his short film work.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Beard previously published books focused on filmmakers [[Clint Eastwood]] and [[David Cronenberg]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/william_beard/Books.htm|title=Books page at William Beard's site|access-date=January 5, 2013}}</ref>

=== David Church: ''Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin'' ===
David Church, a film historian affiliated with Indiana University, edited a collection of essays about Maddin's work through 2009. The book contains both new and previously published essays by critics and scholars, including William Beard, Dana Cooley, Donald Masterson, David L. Pike, Steven Shaviro, Will Straw, Saige Walton, and others. Essays by several of Maddin's friends and collaborators, including George Toles, Stephen Snyder, and Carl Matheson, are also included.<ref name="ChurchDavid" />

=== D.K. Holm: ''Guy Maddin: Interviews'' ===
[[D. K. Holm]] edited a collection of interviews with Maddin, selected from various sources, including the more comprehensive interview book by Vatnsdal. Holm also selects excerpts from Maddin's DVD commentaries.<ref name="Holm" />

=== Caelum Vatnsdal: ''Kino Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin'' ===
[[Caelum Vatnsdal]], a director, producer, author, and actor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buffalogalpictures.com/about_us/caelum_vatnsdal/|title=Bio page at Buffalo Gal Pictures website|access-date=January 6, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321211211/http://www.buffalogalpictures.com/about_us/caelum_vatnsdal/|archive-date=March 21, 2013}}</ref> (who has appeared in a number of Maddin's films, most notably in [[The Heart of the World]]), published a book of interviews with Maddin discussing his filmography film-by-film (the book covers Maddin's career up to 2000).<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />

=== Darren Wershler: ''Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg'' ===
[[Darren Wershler]], a Canadian avant-garde poet, critic, and full Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University, has published an academic monograph on ''My Winnipeg''. This book-length work contextualizes the film in relation to avant-garde literature and art by drawing on media and cultural theory. In Wershler's words, "I argue that Maddin's use of techniques and media falls outside of the normal repertoire of contemporary cinema, which requires us to re-examine what we think we know about the documentary genre and even 'film' itself. Through an exploration of the film's major thematic concerns – memory, the cultural archive, and how people and objects circulate through the space of the city – I contend that ''My Winnipeg'' is intriguing because it is psychologically and affectively true without being historically accurate."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.concordia.ca/facultyandstaff/full-time/people/wershler.php |title=Darren Wershler — Dept. of English |access-date=October 14, 2012 |publisher=[[Concordia University]]}}</ref> In the context of its Canadian production, ''My Winnipeg'''s difference from the documentary genre also marks the film as distinct from the work historically advanced by the [[National Film Board of Canada]]. Maddin has called ''My Winnipeg'' a "docu-fantasia" and Wershler similarly points out that the film's "truth" lies somewhere "in the irresolvable tension created by the gap between documentary and melodrama".<ref name="autogenerated2" />

== Awards ==
* 1991—U.S. National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film for ''Archangel''.
* 1995—Telluride Medal for lifetime achievement in film at the Telluride Film Festival.
* 2001—U.S. National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film for ''Heart of the World''.
* 2001—Genie Award for Best Short for ''Heart of the World''.
* 2002—International [[Emmy]] for Best Performing Arts for ''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary''.
* 2002—Gemini Awards for Best Canadian Performing Arts Show and Best Direction for ''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary''.
* 2002—Prague D'Or (first prize) at the Golden Prague Television Festival for ''Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary''.
* 2006—Persistence of Vision Award for lifetime achievement in film given out at San Francisco International Film Festival.
* 2006—Manitoba Arts Council's Award of Distinction for lifetime achievement in the arts.
* 2007—City TV Prize for Best Canadian Film at the Toronto International Film Festival for ''My Winnipeg''.
* 2008—Toronto Film Critics Association Best Canadian Film for ''My Winnipeg''.
* 2009—Filmmaker on the Edge Award at the [[Provincetown International Film Festival]].
* 2010—The Canada Council for the Arts Bell Award in Video Art, for lifetime achievement in the field.
* 2018—Golden Lady Harimaguada Award from the [[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival]] for ''[[The Green Fog]]''<ref>[http://www.lpafilmfestival.com/la-produccion-norteamericana-the-green-fog-de-guy-maddin-evan-johnson-y-galen-johnson-logra-la-lady-harimaguada-de-oro/?lang=en "The American Film The Green Fog, by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, receives the Golden Lady Harimaguada"], ''Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival'', April 13, 2018</ref>
* 2018—Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, The Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award for ''[[The Green Fog]]''<ref>[https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/los-angeles-film-critics-association-2018-awards-winners-1202026715/ "LAFCA 2018 Winners"], ''IndieWire'', December 9, 2018</ref>

== Filmography ==
=== Feature films ===
[[File:GuyMaddeninhisNursery.jpg|thumb|Maddin in 2008]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Title
!align="left"|Notes
|-
|align="left"|1988
|align="left"|''[[Tales from the Gimli Hospital]]''
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|align="left"|1990
|align="left"|''[[Archangel (1990 film)|Archangel]]''
|align="left"|* U.S. National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film
|-
|align="left"|1992
|align="left"|''[[Careful (1992 film)|Careful]]''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1997
|align="left"|''[[Twilight of the Ice Nymphs]]''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2002
|align="left"|''[[Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary]]''
|align="left"|* International [[Emmy]] for Best Performing Arts<br />* Gemini Awards for Best Canadian Performing Arts and Best Direction<br />* Prague D'Or (first prize) at the 2002 Golden Prague Television Festival
|-
|align="left"|2003
|align="left"|''[[Cowards Bend the Knee]]''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2003
|align="left"|''[[The Saddest Music in the World]]''
|align="left"|* Winner of 3 Genie Awards (Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Achievement in Editing, and Best Achievement in Music, Original Score)<br />* Maddin was also nominated for a Genie for Best Achievement in Direction<br />* Outstanding Achievement in Production Design, Feature Film, from the Directors Guild of Canada<br />* Maddin was also nominated for Best Achievement in Direction from the Directors Guild of Canada<br />* Film Discovery Jury Award for Best Director at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival
|-
|align="left"|2006
|align="left"|''[[Brand Upon the Brain!]]''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2007
|align="left"|''[[My Winnipeg]]''
|align="left"|* Toronto Film Critics Association for Best Canadian Film<br />* City TV Prize for Best Canadian Film at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival<br />* Best Documentary from the 2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards<br />* Best Experimental Documentary from the 2009 International Urban Film Festival, Tehran.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
|-
|align="left"|2011
|align="left"|''[[Keyhole (film)|Keyhole]]''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2015
|align="left"|''[[The Forbidden Room (2015 film)|The Forbidden Room]]''
|align="left"|* Co-directed by [[Evan Johnson (filmmaker)|Evan Johnson]]
|-
|align="left"|2017
|align="left"|''[[The Green Fog]]''
|align="left"|* Co-directed by Evan Johnson and [[Galen Johnson (filmmaker)|Galen Johnson]]
|-
|align="left"|2024
|align="left"|''[[Rumours (2024 film)|Rumours]]''
|align="left"|* Co-directed by Evan Johnson and [[Galen Johnson (filmmaker)|Galen Johnson]]
|}

=== Short films ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Title
!align="left"|Notes
|-
|align="left"|1985
|align="left"|''[[The Dead Father (film)|The Dead Father]]''
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|-
|align="left"|1989
|align="left"|''Mauve Decade''
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|-
|align="left"|1989
|align="left"|''BBB''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1990
|align="left"|''Tyro''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1991
|align="left"|''Indigo High-Hatters''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1993
|align="left"|''The Pomps of Satan''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1994
|align="left"|''Sea Beggars'' or ''The Weaker Sex''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1994
|align="left"|''[[Sissy Boy Slap Party]]''
|align="left"|Lost film; recreated in 2004.
|-
|align="left"|1995
|align="left"|''[[Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity]]''
|align="left"|* [[Toronto International Film Festival]] award winner
|-
|align="left"|1995
|align="left"|''The Hands of Ida''
|align="left"|* Maddin has since disowned this film<ref name="VatnsdalCaelum" />
|-
|align="left"|1996
|align="left"|''Imperial Orgies'' or ''The Rabbi of Bacharach''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1997
|align="left"|''Chimney Workbook''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1997
|align="left"|''Zookeeper Workbook''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1997
|align="left"|''Rooster Workbook''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1998
|align="left"|''The Hoyden'' or ''Idylls of Womanhood''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1998
|align="left"|''The Cock Crew'' or ''Love-Chaunt of the Chimney''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1998
|align="left"|''Maldoror: Tygers''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|1999
|align="left"|''Hospital Fragment''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2000
|align="left"|''Fleshpots of Antiquity''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2000
|align="left"|''[[The Heart of the World]]''
|align="left"|* Winner of a 2001 Genie Award for Best Short<br />* Winner of the 2001 U.S. National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film<ref name="Canada Council for the Arts" />
|-
|align="left"|2002
|align="left"|''Fancy, Fancy Being Rich''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2004
|align="left"|''A Trip to the Orphanage''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2004
|align="left"|''Sombra Dolorosa''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2004
|align="left"|''[[Sissy Boy Slap Party]]''
|align="left"|Recreation of his lost 1994 film.
|-
|align="left"|2005
|align="left"|''FuseBoy''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2005
|align="left"|''My Dad Is 100 Years Old''
|align="left"|* Starring [[Isabella Rossellini]]
|-
|align="left"|2006
|align="left"|''Nude Caboose''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2006
|align="left"|''Odin's Shield Maiden''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2008
|align="left"|''Spanky: To the Pier and Back''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2008
|align="left"|''Berlin''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2008
|align="left"|''It's My Mother's Birthday Today''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2008
|align="left"|''Collage Party''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2008
|align="left"|''Footsteps''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2008
|align="left"|''Glorious''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2009
|align="left"|''Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair''
|align="left"|* Co-directed by [[Isabella Rossellini]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bombsite.com/issues/108/articles/3318|title=''Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair, 2009''|access-date=December 28, 2012|archive-date=October 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030100109/http://bombsite.com/issues/108/articles/3318|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|align="left"|2009
|align="left"|''[[Night Mayor]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www3.nfb.ca/press-room/communique.php?id=19303|title=Guy Maddin Commemorates the NFB's 70th Anniversary with Night Mayor|date=March 5, 2009|work=Press release|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|access-date=March 5, 2009}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2009
|align="left"|''[[The Little White Cloud That Cried (film)|The Little White Cloud That Cried]]''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''The Brute''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''The Devil Bear''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''Satanas Part 3''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''The Divine Woman''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''Clouds Like White Sheep''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''Hubby Does the Washing''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''Lilith & Ly''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''The Brian Sinclair Story''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''Out of College''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''A Woman of the Sea''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2010
|align="left"|''Bing & Bela''
|align="left"|
|-
|align="left"|2012
|align="left"|''How to Take a Bath''
|align="left"|* Written by [[John Ashbery]]
|-
|align="left"|2015
|align="left"|''[[Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton]]''
|align="left"|* Co-directed with Evan Johnson
|-
|align="left"|2018
|align="left"|''[[Accidence (film)|Accidence]]''
|align="left"|* Co-directed with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson
|-
|align="left"|2020
|align="left"|''The Rabbit Hunters''
|align="left"|* Co-directed with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson <br />* Starring [[Isabella Rossellini]]
|-
|align="left"|2020
|align="left"|''[[Stump the Guesser]]''
|align="left"|* Co-directed with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson
|}

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* Beard, William. ''Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin''. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. Print. {{ISBN|978-1442610668}}
* Church, David, ed. ''Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin''. Winnipeg: U of Manitoba P, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-88755-712-5}}
* Holm, D.K., ed. ''Guy Maddin: Interviews''. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 2010. Print. {{ISBN|978-1-60473-563-5}}
* Maddin, Guy. ''Cowards Bend the Knee''. Toronto: The Power Plant, 2003. Print. {{ISBN|1-894212-02-9}}
* Maddin, Guy. ''From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003. Print. {{ISBN|1-55245-131-3}}
* Maddin, Guy. ''My Winnipeg''. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009. Print. {{ISBN|978-1-55245-212-7}}
* Vatnsdal, Caelum. ''Kino Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin''. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2000. Print. {{ISBN|1-894037-11-1}}
* Wershler, Darren. ''Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg''. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. Print. {{ISBN|978-1-44261134-4}}

== External links ==
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141028043532/http://guy-maddin.com/ Guy Maddin Official Site]}}
* {{IMDb name|534665|Guy Maddin}}
* [http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/maddin_curti.html ''Transplant, Consumption, Death, Or: Disease, pathology and decay in Guy Maddin’s cinema'']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121014180211/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/guy-maddin ''Canadian Encyclopedia entry on Guy Maddin'']
* [http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/william_beard/Maddin%2005%20interview.html ''Conversations with Guy Maddin (by film professor William Beard'']

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