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
The Chumscrubber
The Bothersome Man
The Case of the High Foot
My Winnipeg
Fever
Muckman
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Spice World
Yellow Submarine
Self Tape
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Help!
Tripping the Rift: The Movie
The Taste of Tea
Freaked
Green Run
Pushover
Under the Tuscan Sun
After Hours
Momo
SIMILAR MOVIES
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 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.The Case of the High Foot
IMDB 5.5 | Jun , 2014
Comedy short set in the 1930s in which Hilda Stolf (Sally Phillips) visits her doctor (Reece Shearsmith) complaining of a rare case of 'high foot'. But what can be done about it?My Winnipeg
IMDB 6.9 | 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.Fever
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2025
Constantly interrupted by the ringing of a telephone, a man is desperate to poke his eye out. Can he succeed?Muckman
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2023
A short horror comedy following Muckman, that grotty dirty fellow who targets the elderly with his rot coated fingers, causing a fuss and being a bother.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.Yellow Submarine
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1968
The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.Self Tape
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
A struggling actor's home is broken into by the famous acting coach, Sebastian Navarro Rodrigo Rivera, who offers to coach him.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.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.Freaked
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 1993
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.Green Run
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2019
Two men driving home from work miraculously hit every green light.Pushover
IMDB 8.3 | Oct , 2023
A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.Under the Tuscan Sun
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2003
Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.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.Momo
IMDB 7 | Jul , 1986
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.