John Gurdebeke Movies

A woman sent is sent to an electric chair that reads the images of her mind.

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California,...

Winnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his...

Jonah, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teen-aged daughter Aurora on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her...

While adjusting to a new life in the suburban community of Aspen Ridge, a recently divorced mother of two receives mysterious letters instructing her...

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

Guided by the spirit of “The Cuadecuc Manifesto” (coined by co-director Evan Johnson and inspired by Pere Portabella’s 1970...

Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators

A jovial shirtless man attempts to rouse a contingent of lethargic dancers to life in NUDE CABOOSE. His highjinks really get the deadbeats bustin'...

An adaptation of an unrealized script by Jean Vigo (Les lignes de la main), starring his late daughter, the critic, programmer, and actress Luce Vigo

A tribute to underground filmmaker Jack Smith. The film centers around a graphic transsexual orgy.

The shield maiden of Gimli yearns for the drowned fisherman Mundi while her acolytes in mourning aid her in this fact-based account of a tragic...

Guy Maddin directed this short biopic on the castrato known as the Manitoba Meadowlark, Dov Houle, who performed on tour with the film “Brand...

A story about an aging crime family patriarch.

The electric metre is broken, lets play with the fuses...

A sexually-charged short film which includes images of roosters and women.

Short documentary revealing how the sound effects were created for Maddin's film "Brand Upon the Brain".

A surreal short film featuring a zookeeper with a large moustache.

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night continued.