COWARD BENDS THE KNEE
dir. Guy Maddin, 2003
64 mins. Canada
In English with subtitles

New Score from Ela Orleans.
Presented by Matchbox Cineclub!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 - 7 PM with a virtual Q&A between Guy Maddin and Rhayne Vermette! (This event is $10.)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17 - 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22 - 10 PM

It's time for hockey! There's no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons' own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her hairdresser/abortionist mother Liliom. Innocent Veronica, caught in the middle, is treated to both services! Meanwhile poor, dithering, cowardly Guy can only stand by and watch.

"This wild, gorgeous and almost insane new score by Ela Orleans has completely reinvented Cowards. She understood at musical levels the depths of shame, heights of hysteria, and quivering viscous ick I felt while shooting it; she drew out from the film every dark strand of soiled soul unravelling within and hung it in a new moonbeam for all the appalled to see." - Guy Maddin

Each screening will be preceded by

DOMUS
dir. Rhayne Vermette, 2017
15 min. Canada

"The block of marble is the most beautiful of all statues" - Carlo Mollino This is the story of the godlike architect, Carlo Mollino, animated within the desk space of failed architect, Rhayne Vermette. Made, with love on 16mm, 35 and Super 8, this classic tale of Pygmalion investigates intersections between cinema and architecture.

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CATTLE CALL
dir. Matthew Rankin & Mike Maryniuk, 2008
3 min. Canada

A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering, structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowle.

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MATCHBOX CINE PRESENTS: TALES FROM WINNIPEG
We are pleased to partner with distributor and subtitler Matchbox Cine to present an updated version of the “Tales From Winnipeg” series they debuted earlier this year. This series features three features from Winnipeg directors as well as a number of shorts.

Matchbox Cine is an independent film exhibitor, specialising in the outcasts, orphans and outliers of cult cinema, and an award-winning subtitler, specialising in access provision for film exhibition & distribution. From Glasgow, Scotland, and currently based in Bristol, England, they programme, curate and promote cult film events across the UK.

Matchbox Cine’s Tales from Winnipeg debuted as an online-only programme in 2020, celebrating the work of renegade Canadian film co-op the Winnipeg Film Group. John Paizs’ seminal Crime Wave (1985) in its TIFF 2K restoration, Guy Maddin’s Cowards Bend The Knee (2003) with new, director-approved score by Ela Orleans and Dave Barber and Kevin Nikkels’ documentary on WFG, from inception to present day.