Darcy Fehr

A 10-part penny dreadful, a peepshow melodrama, loosely conceived around the filmmaker's autobiography, with an aesthetic that is one part "Vampire" serial, one part psycho fever-dream. (Film Forum)

It's 1933 in Winnipeg and the Great Depression is in full bloom. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world, and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers. (IFC Films)

A personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. (imdb)

The shield maiden of Gimli yearns for the drowned fisherman Mundi. This poetic short from Guy Maddin (Tales From Gimli Hospital, The Saddest Music in the World) mixes fact and myth-making in glorious black and white. (atlantic.bside.com)

An impressionistic series of images inspired by "Tales From the Gimli Hospital". (imdb)

Winnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his vast and beloved adopted land from coast to coast to coast. (imdb)

A woman sent is sent to an electric chair that reads the images of her mind.

Weaving through Paris and Winnipeg, a married couple struggle to maintain their love and marriage even as a life-altering decision threatens to tear them apart. (imdb)

A troubled teenage girl befriends a timid boy who insists he hasn't left his house in more than sixty years. (imdb)

The story of a Portuguese man's first winter in Winnipeg.

On the brink of puberty in 1962 suburban Winnipeg, Sarah Matthews is increasingly challenged and confused by her mother's instability and sexual power. While her father refuses to acknowledge that the family is fracturing under the stress of his wife's mental illness, Sarah uses her creativity, inner strength, and a new friend to discover her own identity. (imdb)

A dark historical drama set in the 1870s about two sisters, the man that comes between them, and the tragedy that results.

The film follows the unlikely friendship that unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family's rural North Dakota farm.

Four men explore an abandoned research facility. Within the station unsettling signs of disorder are revealed, and in the lowest level of the facility, a chilling discovery is made. (imdb)

A homoerotic romp in which three men linger over a fuse box. (mubi)

Chimney Workbook draws on the same image pile as Rooster Workbook, but through different shots. The “tunnel” in Rooster Workbook is now identifiable as a chimney which a man seems somehow obsessed with or obsessed by. (letterboxd.com)

A sexually-charged short film which includes images of roosters and women. (Letterboxd.com)