Comedy
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)
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Boys Go to Jupiter
Barkley Dubis' Danse Macabre
Freaked
The Garden
Dirty Love
The Chumscrubber
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Under the Tuscan Sun
Historias lamentables
The Chickenman Cometh
After Hours
The Queen of the Lizards
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Spice World
The Delightful Sausage: Nowt But Sea
My Winnipeg
The Bothersome Man
Help!
Tripping the Rift: The Movie
The Taste of Tea
SIMILAR MOVIES
Boys Go to Jupiter
IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 2025
A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.Barkley Dubis' Danse Macabre
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2023
A boy is thrown into the middle of an increasingly bizarre local disturbance.Freaked
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 1993
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.The Garden
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1968
Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.Dirty Love
IMDB 4.9 | Oct , 2009
"Three tales of sex and violence presented by TORO LOCO, a blood thirsty, perverted killer cowboy seeking and killing people that starred in some exploitation movie. He is showing his victims the movies before torturing and killing them with a cow skull. The first story deals with two inspectors hunting a cannibal serial killer called "The Tiger". The second is about a 'not-so-devoted' husband interested in having a night of perverted sex with a prostitute in a motel room. The third is a tragical love story between a poor, little man oppressed by his wife and an handsome boy with self-destruction tendencies.The Chumscrubber
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 2005
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get through their days.The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1988
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.Under the Tuscan Sun
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2003
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.Historias lamentables
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2021
This satirical anthology tells the surreal stories of a gift for Don Horacio, a trip to the beach for Bermejo, a life-changing relationship between Tina and the young immigrant Ayoub, and a new client for a company that specializes in excuses.The Chickenman Cometh
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2024
A man is haunted by the mysterious CHICKENMAN after he chooses not to order a takeaway.After Hours
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1985
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.The Queen of the Lizards
IMDB 5.5 | Oct , 2019
A spaceship is about to come to pick up Javi, so him and Berta have to put an end to their summer love.The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1972
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.Spice World
IMDB 4.9 | Dec , 1997
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.The Delightful Sausage: Nowt But Sea
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2022
The biggest-titted Edinburgh Best Show nominees return in their darkest-ever adventure. Learn the horrifying true story of what happened when Amy and Christopher-Louise decided to hide from their problems on a remote island. As tensions flare and psyches fray, how will Yorkshire's finest meat-themed duo survive?My Winnipeg
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2008
The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome.The Bothersome Man
IMDB 7 | May , 2006
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.Help!
IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 1965
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.Tripping the Rift: The Movie
IMDB 5.2 | Mar , 2008
What begins for Chode and crew as a routine mission to protect a pissed-off princess will soon become a filth- splattered saga of dismembered royalty, indestructible clown assassins and desperately horny housewives.The Taste of Tea
IMDB 7.5 | Jul , 2004
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.