My Winnipeg in 35mm with Guy Maddin

Commissioned as a documentary about the director’s prairie hometown, My Winnipeg proceeds from the simple premise that a city is nothing without its ghosts: the mass of memories, legends and fictions that accumulate in any place inhabited by human beings. My Winnipeg is a film about the dream life of a city, a para-documentary about a parallel, phantasmagorical, invisible Winnipeg; it is a séance, a channeling of spirits through the medium of cinema, an exorcism of personal and collective history, as well as a memoir of one soul’s desperate final attempt at an escape from the city and its ghosts. —Tyler Prozeniuk, POV Magazine

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

2007 | 80 min. | Canada | Black-and-White, Color | English | Not Rated | 35mm

DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin 

WRITTEN BY: Guy Maddin, George Toles 

WITH: Ann Savage, Louis Negin, Amy Stewart, Darcy Fehr