Winnipeg
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Manitoba
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, most noted for his frequent collaborations with
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Since completing his first film in ...
Winnipeg Free Press
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'', August 24, 2020. He was a
Canadian Screen Award
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4th Canadian Screen Awards
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in 2016 for his work on Maddin's '' The Forbidden Room''.
He and his brother Evan Johnson were also codirectors of Maddin's short films ''
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton
''Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton'' is a 2015 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson.Seances'' (2016), ''
The Green Fog
''The Green Fog'' is an experimental film directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, that loosely revisits the plot of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film ''Vertigo'' through a collage of found footage repurposed from old movies and telev ...
'' (2017), ''
Accidence
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'' (2018), ''
Stump the Guesser
''Stump the Guesser'' is a Canadian short film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, which was released in 2020.Leonard Pearce"NYFF’s Inaugural Currents Lineup Features Intrepid Filmmaking Voices from Around the World" ''The Film Stag ...
'' (2020)Mindy Bond "Canadian Auteur Guy Maddin World Premiering New Film at 2020 Berlinale" ''The Culture Files'', February 25, 2020. and ''The Rabbit Hunters'' (2020).
In 2020, Johnson released the experimental short film ''Thursday'', which was shot entirely from his and Evan's bedroom windows during the lockdown phase of the
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
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