Guy Maddin

ONE NIGHT ONLY‼️🖤THIS TUESDAY, delve into the surreal oeuvre of Guy Maddin, with rare short films hand-selected by the peerless auteur himself. Eerie cinematic hallucinations screening exclusively at @cobblehillcinemas with a live-score by the unforgettable @the.flushing.remonstrance . Purchase tickets at the link in our bio. #indiefilm #nycfilm #filmscreening #nyctodo

Hear ye, hear ye!!!! Next Tuesday, the 19th of May, I'll be screening a program of my rarely seen shorts, fragments, and whatnots at @CobbleHillCinemas in Brooklyn with LIVE SCORE ACCOMPANIMENT by the lushly oneiric The Flushing Remonstrance. For the past couple of years, Robert and Catherine have been wielding their mesmeric Kuleshev Effects in sound to transform selections of my work into utterly new movies! Their soundscapes are THAT metamorphic! It's like they have given me a dozen brand-new titles to add directly to my filmography, and I haven't had to lift a finger! And, for the love of God, next Tuesday will be the dreamiest yet! I can't be there -- damnit! -- so please attend and tell me how it went! For more details, check out @the.flushing.remonstrance Image one: Isabella Rossellini in SEND ME TO THE 'LECTRIC CHAIR (2009)

Visionary director Patrick Wang -- The Grief of Others (2015); A Bread Factory (2018) -- has a new picture out: A. Rimbaud (2026), an astonishingly innovative biopic of the immortal teen-wonder poet. This film sent me under my bed in shame to consider a new career. It plays The Roxy Theater in NYC on May 20th and May 26th. Blake Draper @blakehdraper effloresces in a stupefyingly great incarnation of the title character!!!! I beg you to excite and enrich your soul by attending! Roxy: May 20th and 26th @arimbaudmovie

CENSUS: ROUND 2 (1956 Division) 1) Edmond O'Brien "1984" (1956) or 2) Tennessee Ernie Ford on The Spike Jones Show (November 15, 1956)

Compulsory Census: Edmond's late surge never materialized. Dana wins in cakewalk fashion. I'm still waiting on mail-in ballots. 1) Dana Andrews in THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1963) or 2) Edmond O'Brien MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1968)

Guy Maddin (@guy.maddin ) explains his new installation, A Memory Is Born, now up at DMC! Link to the digital catalogue in gallery bio! “After forty years of filmmaking, I have come to think of my life only in visual terms, in pictures sketched, jumbled up in almost no order at all, then remembered poorly. My autobiography would NEVER be a series of sentences packed into chapters that fill out a memoir that might sit on a shelf of books. Rather, what I recall of my time on this planet is laid out before me in sequences of something like movie storyboards, those elemental blueprints of filmic preparation, the syntax of cinematic expression itself. So, I’ve come to revisit and reread my past by shuffling through these pictorial vocabulary units. As with all memories, these are clustered, disorganized narratives, sometimes intensely emotional, sometimes utterly inconsequential—always fragmented. Sometimes the memories of my parents have surely been collaged onto my own. Maybe a memory is born only when two or more sensations collide? As in a collage! And all non-impacts are swiftly forgotten? Please sift through my recollected collisions kindly, for they are gentle and true.” #Guymaddin #contemporaryart #canadianart

ONE MORE WEEK.🩸Your chance to see a live-scored selection of surreal hidden gems from experimental auteur Guy Maddin—HAND-SELECTED by the director himself. Link in our bio. 🖤🪽 #indiefilm #nycfilm #filmscreening #nyc

OPENING TONIGHT! HOFFOS / MADDIN Guy Maddin (@guy.maddin ) and David Hoffos (@wizardhobo ) both construct fragmented, image-based narratives that treat memory as unstable, collaged, and deeply subjective, drawing from cinematic language and visual illusion to blur the line between reality and recollection. Through analog processes and deliberate imperfections, their practices reveal how perception, nostalgia, and personal history are continuously reconstructed rather than fixed.

Guy Maddin’s delirious 1992 masterpiece CAREFUL has been restored in 4K and will open @filmforumnyc on June 26 before touring the country. CAREFUL takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents —adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid, luminescent tints, CAREFUL resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet—something that could only emerge from the singular mind of Maddin. “Hilariously bizarre... Like some lost masterpiece from a time-warped alternative dimension.” –The Washington Post “Dazzlingly funny... A one-of-a-kind wonder.” –San Francisco Bay Guardian “A Freudian wasp’s nest of incestuous desire and sibling rivalry.” –The New York Times

We are thrilled to introduce the absolute legend, Guy Maddin (@guy.maddin ), to DMC. Maddin’s newest installation opens May 8th alongside David Hoffos (@wizardhobo ). After forty years of filmmaking, Guy Maddin has come to think of his life only in visual terms, in pictures sketched, jumbled up in almost no order at all, then remembered poorly. His autobiography would 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 be a series of sentences packed into chapters that fill out a memoir that might sit on a shelf of books. Rather, what he recalls of his time on this planet is laid out before him in sequences of something like movie storyboards, those elemental blueprints of filmic preparation, the syntax of cinematic expression itself. So, he has come to revisit and reread his past by shuffling through these pictorial vocabulary units. As with all memories, these are clustered, disorganized narratives, sometimes intensely emotional, sometimes utterly inconsequential—always fragmented. Sometimes, the memories of his parents have surely been collaged onto his own. Maybe a memory is born only when two or more sensations collide? As in a collage! And all non-impacts are swiftly forgotten? One is asked to sift through his recollected collisions kindly, for they are gentle and true.Now open at Ottawa’s City Hall Art Gallery (@) Judy Nakagawa: Family, Memory and Art. April 16 to August 2, 2026 - Reception: May 28, 5:30 to 7:30 Guy Maddin has directed thirteen feature-length movies, most recently Rumours (2024), starring Cate Blanchett and Roy Dupuis; as well as The Forbidden Room (2015), My Winnipeg (2007), and The Saddest Music in the World (2003). He has also mounted over 70 performances of his films around the world, featuring live elements—orchestra, sound effects, singing, and narration—most recently The Green Fog (2016), which was accompanied live by the Kronos Quartet. His screenplay collaborators include Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and poet John Ashbery. His movies Archangel (1990) & The Heart of the World (2000) both won America’s National Society of Film Critics awards for Best Experimental Film.  Guy Maddin, Maybe a memory is born 1-7, 8x10 inches, Collage on Paper, 2026

It pains me to brag, it truly does, but I am now the proud owner of Luis Bunuel bingo cards, courtesy the incredible @bunuel_institute Thank you, Oscar!!!❤️ @kinsmenjackpotbingo will never be the same!

Aunt Lil, one of the two great bronze bison flanking the grand staircase entranceway to the Manitoba Legislative Building. photo by @eli_wpg