Galen Johnson is a Canadian filmmaker from

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, most noted for his frequent collaborations with

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.Randall King
"From a distance: Winnipegger's short film, shot from an apartment window, captures eerily silent city of pandemic's early days"
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'', August 24, 2020. He was a

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nominee for Best Art Direction/ Production Design at the

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in 2016 for his work on Maddin's '' The Forbidden Room''. He and his brother

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were also codirectors of Maddin's short films '' Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton'' (2015), '' Seances'' (2016), '' The Green Fog'' (2017), ''

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'' (2018), '' Stump the Guesser'' (2020)Mindy Bond
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''The Culture Files'', February 25, 2020. and ''The Rabbit Hunters'' (2020), as well as the feature film '' Rumours'' (2024). 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

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