Born in Canada in 1956. He graduated in economics at the Winnipeg University and started his career in film in the 1980s. Maddin had a retrospective of his work presented at the 28th Mostra, with films such as Archangel (1990), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002) and Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands (2003). He has also directed the short film My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005), the segment Colorful Cat of the movie Invisible World (2011) and the features Brand upon the Brain (2006), My Winnipeg (2007), Keyhole (2011) and The Green Fog (2017), all presented at Mostra.
