Matthew Rankin Movies

  • 2024
    Universal Language

    Universal Language

    Universal Language

    52024HD

    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
  • 2019
    The Twentieth Century

    The Twentieth Century

    The Twentieth Century

    6.12019HD

    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
    Before I Change My Mind

    Before I Change My Mind

    Before I Change My Mind

    72024HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Sinclair

    Sinclair

    Sinclair

    52010HD

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

    Sinclair
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2008
    Hydro-Lévesque

    Hydro-Lévesque

    Hydro-Lévesque

    02008HD

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

    Hydro-Lévesque
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    Discount Everything

    Discount Everything

    Discount Everything

    02014HD

    A found-footage followup to Kubasa in a Glass

    Discount Everything
  • 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
    Cattle Call

    Cattle Call

    Cattle Call

    02008HD

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

    Cattle Call