Matthew Rankin Movies

Artistic rivalry infects the Winnipeg public service. Strong words are uttered, regretted, retracted.

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

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...

A found-footage followup to Kubasa in a Glass

Only the electrifying courage and love of Québec nationalism can save the citizens of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide.

Self-portrait of the filmmaker seen through the mystical postmodern prism of Iranian cinema

Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask...

16mm dreamwave micro-hallucinations in National Parks across Canada.

Another chapter of the 16mm dreamwave micro-hallucinations in National Parks across Canada.

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

On a moonlit street corner, a Parisian waif sits dejectedly on a doorstep, mournfully clutching a dogless leash.

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