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Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Herdis Maddin . Maddin studied economics at the University of Winnipeg, working as a bank manager, house painter, and photographic archivist before becoming a film-maker. Maddin produced his first film in 1985, and since then his distinctive style of recreating and renovating silent film conventions and international critical acclaim have made him one of Canada's most celebrated directors. In 2003, Maddin also expanded his career to become an author and an installation artist.
Winner of the Telluride lifetime achievement award
Father of Jilian Maddin.
The youngest of four children. He has a sister named Janet and two brothers named Cameron (deceased) and Ross.
Maddins father Chas was blinded in one eye when his mother held him close to her as an infant and an open brooch pierced his eyelid. A similar event occurs in Maddins third feature film, Careful.
In 2012, was among 70 new appointees to receive the Order of Canada, one of the countrys highest civilian honours.
Maddins films since 2003 have often begun as or developed from installation art projects (particularly Cowards Bend the Knee and Brand Upon the Brain!), and in 2012 Maddin began shooting a series of 100 short films, with each production being at the same time a gallery performance.
Maddins films often feature autobiographical elements, especially his "Me Trilogy" (of Cowards Bend the Knee, Brand Upon the Brain!, and My Winnipeg) of three films that feature a protagonist named "Guy Maddin".
Maddin is the subject of four books, two interview books (Guy Maddin: Interviews, edited by D.K. Holm, and Caelum Vatnsdals Kino Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin) and two academic studies (Guy Maddins My Winnipeg by Darren Wershler, and Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard).
Retrospective at the 9th New Horizons Film Festival.
