Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...
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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 ...
. He was codirector of Maddin's '' The Forbidden Room'', which was the winner of the
Toronto Film Critics Association
The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) is an organization of film critics from Toronto-based publications. As of 1999, the TFCA is a member of the FIPRESCI.
History
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Rogers Best Canadian Film Award The Rogers Best Canadian Film Award is presented annually by the Toronto Film Critics Association to the film judged by the organization's members as the year's best Canadian film. In 2012, the cash prize accompanying the award was increased to $ ...
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Johnson and Maddin have also codirected the short films ''Puberty'' (2014), ''Elms'' (2014), ''Colours'' (2014), ''Cold'' (2014), ''Lines of the Hand'' (2015) and ''Once a Chicken'' (2015).
He and his brother
Galen Johnson
Galen A. Johnson (born 1948) is an American philosopher who is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island and the General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle.
Education and background
Johnson received his ...
were jointly 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 televi ...
'' (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 Stage' ...