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4 unusual facts about Guy Maddin


Richard Ayres

He also wrote No. 43 Glorious, a work for chamber ensemble and film - a collaboration with film-maker Guy Maddin for the SHIFT Festival in Amsterdam and Canada.

The Film Company

To date, The Film Company has produced several feature films and shorts, including Guy Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain!, and Lynn Shelton's We Go Way Back.

Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole

Samples of Winnipeg musicians Randy Bachman and Crash Test Dummies, director Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World, and CKND newscaster Peter Chura (saying "a Winnipeg wrestling coach was accused of sexually assaulting one of his athletes" on "Winnipeg is Fucking Over") are all present on the album.

Yevgeny Yufit

Yufit first became famous for his macabre short films, which, like the films of Guy Maddin, often looked as though they had been made during the 1920s or 1930s.


Royal Winnipeg Ballet

In 2002, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of the story of Dracula, choreographed by Mark Godden, was filmed in a made for television titled Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary directed by Guy Maddin.

São Paulo International Film Festival

The list of international filmmakers (including Brazilian directors) consisted of Wolfgang Becker, Maria de Medeiros, Hanna Elias, Amos Gitai, Mika Kaurismäki, Jim McBride, Phillip Noyce, Ming-liang Tsai, Andrea Vecchiato, Caetano Veloso, Yoshishige Yoshida, Theo Angelopoulos, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Marcho Bechis, Laís Bodanzky, Beto Brant, Manoel de Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Jerzy Stuhr, and Wim Wenders.

Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction

Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction is a Canadian anthology of 10 original, two-minute mobile shorts for video cell phones, by directors, artists and personalities, including: Ann Marie Fleming, Mark McKinney, Guy Maddin, Isabella Rossellini, Theodore Ushev and Denis Villeneuve.


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