Bio

Mike Maryniuk was born in Winnipeg, but raised in the rural back country of Manitoba. A completely self-taught film virtuoso, Maryniuk’s film world is an inventive hybrid of Jim Henson, Norman McLaren and Stan Brakhage. Maryniuk’s films are a visual stew of hand-made ingredients and are full of home cooked wonderfulness.

Works

The Yodeling Farmer

  • 2011
  • Mike Maryniuk

This playful, animated documentary portrays the charming, yodeling farmer with humour and wit and “looks the way yodeling sounds.”

The Yodeling Farmer

Blotto 649

  • 2013
  • Mike Maryniuk

A fantastic journey of colour using 6490 photographs of spin art micro paintings.

Blotto 649

Dead Ringer

  • 2009
  • Mike Maryniuk

A tsunami of magnetic rays disrupts the primitive cell-phone broadcast of a Horseshoe Match.

Dead Ringer

Cattle Call

  • 2008
  • Mike Maryniuk, Matthew Rankin

"Cattle Call" is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.

Cattle Call

Tattoo Step

  • 2008
  • Mike Maryniuk

Temporary Tattoos applied to 35mm for eternity. An energetic conjuring of Manitoban spirits. Starring: Haunted HyperActive Hypnotists and Breakneck Butterfly Barfbags.

Tattoo Step

Death By Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets

  • 2006
  • Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk, Walter Forsberg

"Death by Popcorn" follows the ill-fated Jets through their many travails with arch-enemies Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers, soul-crushing NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and many other agents of Winnipeg annihilation. Sadness on ice.

Death By Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets

Bush Wact

  • 2003
  • Mike Maryniuk

War is fun.

Bush Wact