Matthew Rankin Movies

  • 2019
    The Twentieth Century

    The Twentieth Century

    The Twentieth Century

    6.22019HD

    Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will...

    The Twentieth Century
  • 2024
    Universal Language

    Universal Language

    Universal Language

    02024HD

    Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get...

    Universal Language
  • 2024
    Before I Change My Mind

    Before I Change My Mind

    Before I Change My Mind

    102024HD

    1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly...

    Before I Change My Mind
  • 2008
    The Phantom of the Cinematheque

    The Phantom of the Cinematheque

    The Phantom of the Cinematheque

    02008HD

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

    The Phantom of the Cinematheque
  • 2015
    The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau

    The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau

    The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau

    02015HD

    This micro-epic short film is an inspired tribute to visionary avant-garde composer Walter Boudreau: his life, work, mischief, and boundless artistic...

    The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau
  • 2022
    This House

    This House

    This House

    72022HD

    Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something...

    This House
  • 2017
    The Tesla World Light

    The Tesla World Light

    The Tesla World Light

    52017HD

    New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor.

    The Tesla World Light
  • 2010
    Sinclair

    Sinclair

    Sinclair

    52010HD

    A four minute film created for the opening of the TIFF Bell Lightbox

    Sinclair
  • 2023
    Mademoiselle Kenopsia

    Mademoiselle Kenopsia

    Mademoiselle Kenopsia

    52023HD

    Set on carrying out her task with dedication, a woman is obsessed with watching over anonymous interiors and occupying them. Both a custodian of the...

    Mademoiselle Kenopsia
  • 2018
    A Fortress

    A Fortress

    A Fortress

    02018HD

    After the death of their adoptive daughter a couple goes to Haiti. There, they meet with a DNA specialist who has the power of resurrection.

    A Fortress
  • 1996
    Soft Like Me

    Soft Like Me

    Soft Like Me

    71996HD

    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...

    Soft Like Me
  • 2014
    Mynarski Death Plummet

    Mynarski Death Plummet

    Mynarski Death Plummet

    6.32014HD

    A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski...

    Mynarski Death Plummet
  • 2019
    Wilcox

    Wilcox

    Wilcox

    52019HD

    Wilcox exists outside the norm. Deserter, delinquent, or survivalist, he quietly roams, looking to put down roots or for what could simply be called...

    Wilcox
  • 2015
    This Is an Official Message

    This Is an Official Message

    This Is an Official Message

    102015HD

    In the idealism and mutation of his home town of Winnipeg, the filmmaker Matthew Rankin launches a failed campaign of absolute inter-human solidarity...

    This Is an Official Message
  • 2010
    Negativipeg

    Negativipeg

    Negativipeg

    102010HD

    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

    Negativipeg
  • 2012
    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    Tabula Rasa

    02012HD

    In the aftermath of the 1950 Winnipeg flood, Fernand floats listlessly through the sad, sunken landscape of ruin. His estranged wife prays for the...

    Tabula Rasa
  • 2006
    Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993)

    Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993)

    Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993)

    02006HD

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

    Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993)
  • 2008
    I Dream of Driftwood

    I Dream of Driftwood

    I Dream of Driftwood

    02008HD

    An experimental montage of the exteriors of apartment buildings

    I Dream of Driftwood
  • 2008
    Barber Gull Rub

    Barber Gull Rub

    Barber Gull Rub

    02008HD

    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...

    Barber Gull Rub
  • 2020
    A Grief Observed

    A Grief Observed

    A Grief Observed

    02020HD

    Matthew spends Mother’s Day in his mom’s house slowly deleting her voicemails.

    A Grief Observed