Archangel

Archangel 1990

5.62

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.

1990

Tales from the Gimli Hospital

Tales from the Gimli Hospital 1988

6.20

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

1988

Good Citizen: Betty Baker

Good Citizen: Betty Baker 1996

1.00

Good Citizen: Betty Baker is a tongue-in-cheek mystery, full of unexpected twists. It features Betty, a civic-minded housewife who inhabits a cartoonish, 2-D, 1950s-inspired world, replete with narrow-minded peril. The story begins when Prince Philip goes missing and Betty finds a clue that leads her on a thrilling chase from her neighbour’s trash, to a strangely exciting all-girls bar, to the local chapter of 100% Women. Accompanied by the musical stylings of Marilyn Lerner, this frolicking satire irreverently unravels right-wing family values.

1996

Infectious

Infectious 2009

1

A lonely nurse develops an unexpected passion for her unconscious patient in a 1930s tuberculosis sanatorium.

2009

Soft Like Me

Soft Like Me 1996

7.00

On a secluded prairie farm, adolescent boys labor in wheat fields for a sexually predatory warden and his farmhands, who threaten to feed them to a voracious beast if they ever disobey. The newly arrived Linus instantly catches the warden's eye, and begins to receive secret visitations from a mysterious girl. The other boys tell Linus the legend of a special boy who fled the farm and became a glorious angel that will one day return to free them all. When Linus asks the girl if she is the angel, her answer is enigmatic. After the warden's favorite boy dies, Linus is poised to become the next victim. The girl reappears and promises to help him escape, but with hope comes punishment.

1996

Rabbit Pie

Rabbit Pie 1976

1

The first production released by the Winnipeg Film Group! A restaurant serves cute little bunny rabbits. Yum-yum! One of the Film Group's greatest ventures, this light comedy features Peter Paul Van Camp as an industrious writer who sits and composes his poem about bunnies while at the very next table, the special entree - rabbit pie - seems to have become more rabbit like.

1976

Horse Brothers

Horse Brothers 2022

1

Two paranoid brothers are consumed with murderous fantasies after a horse convinces them that they are each others’ enemies. Starring Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, Forbidden Room) and Milos Mitrovic (Tapeworm, Stump the Guesser).

2022

Barber Gull Rub

Barber Gull Rub 2008

1

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)

2008

Black Forest Sanatorium

Black Forest Sanatorium 2020

9.00

Starving for companionship, Quinn pursues an unorthodox approach to resolving her intense loneliness.

2020

Shea, by NASRA

Shea, by NASRA 2021

1

A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. "Shea" celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples, an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.

2021

Okeedoke

Okeedoke 1973

1

A portrait of the filmmaker’s brother-in-law Steve Jackson with psychedelic photograph animation synchronized to music performed by Chuck Aliamo.

1973

HeimÞrá: In Thrall to Home

HeimÞrá: In Thrall to Home 2018

1

Doubting details of her mother’s deathbed story, a skeptical daughter drags her brother on a genealogical goose chase through the Canadian prairies to the remote Icelandic highland. Determined to prove her mother spun tall tales, Erika delves into a basement full of file boxes only to find that family history triggers her own obsessive curiosity. Holed up with stacks of diaries, letters and pictures, Erika becomes spellbound by her increasing sense of belonging to an unfolding story.

2018

Christmas in Brandon

Christmas in Brandon 1970

1

Christmas Eve, Brandon, a bottle or two of Tia Maria and the warm smile and demeanour of poet and actor Randy Woods as he tells of their combined intoxicating effects.

1970

You Laugh Like a Duck

You Laugh Like a Duck 1980

1

A co-production between the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative and the Winnipeg Film Group, this documentary shows children and youth speaking frankly about their home communities in Manitoba and Nova Scotia.

1980

Asleep at the Wheel

Asleep at the Wheel 2005

1

Using found footage of road trips from the 60's, Maryniuk has crafted a psychedelic tribute piece to a friend who passed away in a car accident. Maryniuk's techniques included hole punching and reassembling, bleaching, painting, scratch animation and boiling the film.

2005

Music

Music 1983

1

A group of infants with electric guitars compose a shocking violent punk rock song which surprises, saddens and offends their mothers.

1983

Five Cents a Copy

Five Cents a Copy 1980

1

The world's first experimental photocopy animated film explores some of the possibilities for producing images in motion, including all effects, fades, and dissolves. Each image was recorded on paper using a Minolta EP-310 photocopy machine.

1980