Movies: Matthew Rankin
- 2019
The Twentieth Century (2019)
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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 first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his ...
- 2017
The Tesla World Light (2017)
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New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor....
- 1996
Soft Like Me (1996)
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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 voracious beast if they ever disobey. The newly arrived Linus instantly catches the warden's eye, and ...
- 2014
Mynarski Death Plummet (2014)
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A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (includ...
- 2024
Universal Language (2024)
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In Winnipeg, Nazgol and Hossein try to help a classmate recover an Iranian banknote. At the same time, a character named Matthew Rankin quits his job in Montreal to be closer to his family in Winnipeg, where he meets Massoud, a tour guide who also ta...
- 2024
Before I Change My Mind (2024)
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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 dangerous choices to fit in....
- 2006
Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993) (2006)
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A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg's civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own low-budget, lo-fi TV advertising produced between 1975 and 1992....
- 2022
This House (2022)
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Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future conse...
- 2020
A Grief Observed (2020)
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Matthew spends Mother’s Day in his mom’s house slowly deleting her voicemails....
- 2008
The Phantom of the Cinematheque (2008)
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On the 25th anniversary of his employment, Dave Barber, the visionary workaholic programmer of Winnipeg's beloved Cinematheque, dies tragically in an avalanche of VHS tapes while working late to finish the programming calendar. His workaholic ghost r...
- 2012
Tabula Rasa (2012)
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In the aftermath of the 1950 Winnipeg flood, Fernand floats listlessly through the sad, sunken landscape of ruin. His estranged wife prays for the drowned souls of Saint-Boniface....
- 2015
The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau (2015)
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This micro-epic short film is an inspired tribute to visionary avant-garde composer Walter Boudreau: his life, work, mischief, and boundless artistic curiosity. Both a documentary biopic and a wildly abstract hallucination, the film conceives of Walt...
- 2019
Wilcox (2019)
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Wilcox exists outside the norm. Deserter, delinquent, or survivalist, he quietly roams, looking to put down roots or for what could simply be called freedom....
- 2015
This Is an Official Message (2015)
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In the idealism and mutation of his home town of Winnipeg, the filmmaker Matthew Rankin launches a failed campaign of absolute inter-human solidarity entirely in Esperanto, the artificial language of world peace....
- 2010
Sinclair (2010)
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A four minute film created for the opening of the TIFF Bell Lightbox...
- 2023
Mademoiselle Kenopsia (2023)
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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 premises and a ghostly presence, she becomes an echo of how we relate to time, solitude and the melan...
- 2018
A Fortress (2018)
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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....
- 2014
Discount Everything (2014)
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A found-footage followup to Kubasa in a Glass...
- 1969
Au revoir pluton (1969)
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- 2010
Negativipeg (2010)
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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...