Matthew Rankin Movies

A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg's civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own...

A demented parody of the Canadian government.

Artistic rivalry infects the Winnipeg public service. Strong words are uttered, regretted, retracted.

An experimental montage of the exteriors of apartment buildings

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...

Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask...

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

Another chapter of the 16mm dreamwave micro-hallucinations in National Parks across Canada.

16mm dreamwave micro-hallucinations in National Parks across Canada.

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

On the 25th anniversary of his employment, Dave Barber, the visionary workaholic programmer of Winnipeg's beloved Cinematheque, dies tragically in an...

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