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Mike Maryniuk

Mike Maryniuk was born in Winnipeg but raised in the rural back country of Manitoba. A completely self-taught film virtuoso, his style is an inventive hybrid of Michel Gondry, Caroline Leaf and Les Blank. Maryniuk started making hand-processed black and white 16mm films after finding some 1920s movie posters while working on the demolition of a shoe store. Since then, his films have screened at Su…

Known For

June NightJune Night · 2020
June Night
2020
MovieAnimation
Working in sublime self-isolation during the strange pandemic spring of 2020, avant-garde filmmaker Mike Maryniuk composes a surreal ode to rebirth and reinvention. Juxtaposing archival imagery with handcrafted animation, he conjures up a shimmering utopian dreamscape, a post-COVID world shaped by the primordial forces of nature—haunted by the genial spectre of Buster Keaton.
The GooseThe Goose · 2018
The Goose
★ 5.52018
MovieDrama
This deaf-and-dumb young man who is called ‘the Goose’ by his scoffing acquaintances makes the most psychedelic of journeys by fax machine. Like a goose leaving for the sun in the winter, this anti-hero is looking for somewhere else to find his own voice. Absurdist drama that makes eager use of stop-motion carpet figures, silent-film references, computer animation, video and arcade games.
Blotto 649Blotto 649 · 2013
Blotto 649
2013
MovieAnimation
An animated short film made with 6,490 photographs of spin art micro paintings.
Consumption FallsConsumption Falls · 2021
Consumption Falls
2021
MovieAnimation
A stop-motion film exploring the mechanisms and materiality of consumerism and recycling culture.
ThompsonThompson · 2017
Thompson
2017
Movie
Hypnosis Highway. The effects of drinking magical ditch water near the Thompson Crystal Smelter. Shot and edited in a truck on the way to Lynn Lake, Manitoba, near Thompson. This is exactly how the passing trees look after 10 hours.
Tattoo StepTattoo Step · 2008
Tattoo Step
2008
Movie
Temporary Tattoos applied to 35mm for eternity. An energetic conjuring of Manitoban spirits.
SinclairSinclair · 2010
Sinclair
2010
Movie
The camera’s roving eye seems to warp and bend a mysterious white room in this unsettling excerpt from a film Guy Maddin created for the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Bell Lightbox building.
Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg JetsDeath by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets · 2005
Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets
2005
Movie
A bizarre video collage created from the ashes of Winnipeg's local television broadcasts of decades past, detailing the rise and fall of the Winnipeg Jets.

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