Matthew Rankin Movies
- 2024
Universal Language
Universal Language52024HD
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...
- 2019
The Twentieth Century
The Twentieth Century6.12019HD
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...
- 2024
Before I Change My Mind
Before I Change My Mind72024HD
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...
- 2017
The Tesla World Light
The Tesla World Light52017HD
New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor.
- 2023
Mademoiselle Kenopsia
Mademoiselle Kenopsia52023HD
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...
- 1996
Soft Like Me
Soft Like Me71996HD
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...
- 2008
I Dream of Driftwood
I Dream of Driftwood02008HD
An experimental montage of the exteriors of apartment buildings
- 2010
Sinclair
Sinclair52010HD
A four minute film created for the opening of the TIFF Bell Lightbox
- 2022
This House
This House72022HD
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something...
- 2019
Wilcox
Wilcox52019HD
Wilcox exists outside the norm. Deserter, delinquent, or survivalist, he quietly roams, looking to put down roots or for what could simply be called...
- 2014
Mynarski Death Plummet
Mynarski Death Plummet6.32014HD
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski...
- 2015
This Is an Official Message
This Is an Official Message102015HD
In the idealism and mutation of his home town of Winnipeg, the filmmaker Matthew Rankin launches a failed campaign of absolute inter-human solidarity...
- 2018
A Fortress
A Fortress02018HD
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.
- 2015
The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau
The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau02015HD
This micro-epic short film is an inspired tribute to visionary avant-garde composer Walter Boudreau: his life, work, mischief, and boundless artistic...
- 2008
Hydro-Lévesque
Hydro-Lévesque02008HD
Only the electrifying courage and love of Québec nationalism can save the citizens of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide.
- 2008
The Phantom of the Cinematheque
The Phantom of the Cinematheque02008HD
On the 25th anniversary of his employment, Dave Barber, the visionary workaholic programmer of Winnipeg's beloved Cinematheque, dies tragically in an...
- 2012
Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa02012HD
In the aftermath of the 1950 Winnipeg flood, Fernand floats listlessly through the sad, sunken landscape of ruin. His estranged wife prays for the...
- 2014
Discount Everything
Discount Everything02014HD
A found-footage followup to Kubasa in a Glass
- 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)02006HD
A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg's civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own...
- 2008
Cattle Call
Cattle Call02008HD
Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask...