Matthew Rankin

Negativipeg

Matthew Rankin

Rory Lepine

An examination of Rory Lepine, who sent Winnipeg into a frenzy when he beat local legend Burton Cummings with a beer bottle in a 7-Eleven in 1985

Où est Maurice?

Alek Rzeszowski, Matthew Rankin

On a moonlit street corner, a Parisian waif sits dejectedly on a doorstep, mournfully clutching a dogless leash.

Mynarski chute mortelle

Matthew Rankin

Louis Negin, Alek Rzeszowski

A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, silhouettes, bleaching, scratching, hand-painting and rubbing letratone patterns directly on the celluloid) Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.

The Tesla World Light

Matthew Rankin

Robert Vilar

New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor.

The Twentieth Century

Matthew Rankin

Dan Beirne, Sarianne Cormier

Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his tortuous path to power.

Hydro-Lévesque

Matthew Rankin

Maude Payette, Robert Vilar

Only the electrifying courage and love of Québec nationalism can save the citizens of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide.

Tabula Rasa

Matthew Rankin

Martin Dubreuil, Sarah Gravel

In the aftermath of the 1950 Winnipeg flood, Fernand floats listlessly through the sad, sunken landscape of ruin. His estranged wife prays for the drowned souls of Saint-Boniface.

I Dream of Driftwood

Matthew Rankin

An experimental montage of the exteriors of apartment buildings

Discount Everything

Matthew Rankin

A found-footage followup to Kubasa in a Glass

A Grief Observed

Matthew Rankin

Matthew Rankin, Louis Negin

Matthew spends Mother’s Day in his mom’s house slowly deleting her voicemails.

The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau

Matthew Rankin

Walter Boudreau

This micro-epic short film is an inspired tribute to visionary avant-garde composer Walter Boudreau: his life, work, mischief, and boundless artistic curiosity. Both a documentary biopic and a wildly abstract hallucination, the film conceives of Walter Boudreau as a radical explorer, struggling against the inert mass of the cosmos, charting bold new paths of artistic freedom and audaciously expanding the frontiers of our known musical universe.

Ceci est un Message Officiel

Matthew Rankin

Sarianne Cormier, Annie St-Pierre

In the idealism and mutation of his home town of Winnipeg, the filmmaker Matthew Rankin launches a failed campaign of absolute inter-human solidarity entirely in Esperanto, the artificial language of world peace.

Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993)

Matthew Rankin, Walter Forsberg

Bea Broda

A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg's civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own low-budget, lo-fi TV advertising produced between 1975 and 1992.

Sharhé-Halé Shakhsi: M. Rankin

Matthew Rankin

Self-portrait of the filmmaker seen through the mystical postmodern prism of Iranian cinema

Barber Gull Rub

Matthew Rankin

Dave Barber, Darcy Fehr

Winnipeg Film Group. Deep in the winter of 1986. Guy Maddin is in the process of filming Tales from the Gimli Hospital and needs to rub a dead seagull on somebody's chest. Immediately, Dave Barber agrees, submitting his bare flesh to Maddin's road kill and to film history. (This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque for its 25th anniversary, Silverscope)

Cattle Call

Mike Maryniuk, Matthew Rankin

Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have created images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. This hallucinogenic study of what Werner Herzog has termed the poetry of capitalism.