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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)

Musical mantra derived from machine-gun micro-montage. (imdb)

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

Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia. (imdb)

Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay. (imdb)

Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home. (imdb)

An old criminal is haunted by dreams of death, crime, gangs of unruly criminals invading his home which may erupt in a shoot-out and death. The dream sparkles in firefight and bullet fireworks, morphing into some nonsense about firework shoes and a crackling basement stove before diving into what the guns and six-shooters really represent: A glory-hole orgy of oral sex. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)

A newspaper journalist has strange visions which help him in the solving of crimes. (imdb)

A completely handmade historical microepic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second world war hero, Andrew Mynarsky. (imdb)

Determined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.

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

Legendary poet John Ashbery scripted this absurdist step-by-step guide to bathing, excerpted from Guy Maddin's feature THE FORBIDDEN ROOM and restored to its original form as a stand-alone film. (imdb)