Matthew Rankin Movies

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

A man confronts painful memories of a love affair now over. But he is perplexed by the appearance of a disgusting creature that he just can't get rid...

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...

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 micro-epic short film is an inspired tribute to visionary avant-garde composer Walter Boudreau: his life, work, mischief, and boundless artistic...

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

Matthew spends Mother’s Day in his mom’s house slowly deleting her voicemails.

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

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

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

An experimental montage of the exteriors of apartment buildings