My Winnipeg

Guy Maddin
Canada
2007

It’s been my muse since long before I ever picked up a camera.

80", DigiBeta PAL
Color and Black & White, English

about the film

In 1888, William Cornelius Van Horne, the great railway man who against long odds built the Canadian Pacific Railroad across our vast nation, established in Winnipeg a tradition that survives to this day. That year, on the first day of winter, Van Horne held a city-wide scavenger hunt. Every one of the young town’s residents was given a treasure map and invited to participate. First prize was a one-way ticket on the next train out of town. The secret hope behind this contest was that after a long day spent combing through the city’s nooks and crannies, Winnipeggers would discover that the real treasure was here all along, that it was Winnipeg itself. And for the longest time, Horne’s trick worked…

Guy Maddin who as a filmmaker who has spent his entire fifty years in Winnipeg, he’s been enchanted, intoxicated and benighted by the city of his birth. He says “It’s been my muse since long before I ever picked up a camera.”

about the director

Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg. He directed his debut feature, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, in 1988. His short The Heart of the World, created for the Festival’s Preludes in 2000, won a Genie Award. In addition to many other shorts, his feature credits include Archangel (1990), Careful (1992), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997), Dracula – Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), which won a Gemini Award for best director, Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Brand Upon the Brain! (2006) and My Winnipeg (2007).

awards

2007 Toronto Film Festival: Best Canadian Feature Film

screenings

February 15 Friday, 7:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

February 19 Tuesday, 7:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

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