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Guy Maddin fonds [moving images]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1984-2005.

Reference:

R8351-0-6-E

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

188559

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Guy Maddin fonds
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Date(s):

1984-2005.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

4 film reels (1 h, 38 min) : 16 mm.
2 film reels (ca. 32 min) : 35 mm.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of one Canadian fiction feature film entitled Tales from the Gimli Hospital, and two short fiction film entitled: The Dead Father; and My Dad is 100 Years Old.

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Maddin, Guy, 1957-

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Maddin, Guy, 1957- : Guy Maddin was born in 1957 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was named after the B-movie actor Guy Madison, star of Beast of Hollow Mountain. Maddin began his career as a student of economics at the University of Manitoba. His first film, produced through the Winnipeg Film Group, was The dead father (1986). A number of films followed including Tales from Gimli Hospital (1988); Archangel (1990), which won the U.S. National Society of Film Critics Award for best experimental film of the year; Careful (1992); Odilon redon (1995); and Twilight of the ice nymphs (1997).
Since then he has won many other awards including the Telluride Silver Medal for life achievement (1995), an Emmy Award for his ballet movie Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002), the San Francisco International Film Festival's Persistence of Vision award (2006), and created dozens of beguiling films in his unique personal style. These include such celebrated feature works as The Saddest Music in the World (2003); Brand upon the Brain! (2006); and My Winnipeg (2007), which won the Toronto International Film Festival City TV Prize for Best Canadian Feature.
He received the 2010 Bell Award in Video Art awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Mr. Maddin is also a writer and teacher, and occupies the position of Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence at the University of Manitoba.

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General note:

Material was acquired from Guy Maddin in 1988.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1988-0447 MISA
2006-00702-5
2007-0042 VSA
982 (1988-10-25)
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