Bio

Matthew Rankin studied Québec history at McGill University and Université Laval before burrowing into the artistic underclass of his native Winnipeg to become a maker of art films. 

Working in video and photo-chemical hybrids of documentary, experimental drama and animated abstraction, Matthew’s films have been the object of both international acclaim and outraged corporate attack. An alumnus of the Sundance Film Festival, Matthew was a 2013 artist-in-residence at the McDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and is the first Winnipegger in film history to be nominated for Québec’s coveted Jutra award. Matthew works in French, English and, increasingly, Esperanto.

Works

Negativipeg

  • 2010
  • Matthew Rankin

Negativipeg tells the story of Rory Lepine, who shot to Herostratic fame in 1985 when he attacked Winnipeg rock legend Burton Cummings with a beer bottle in a North End 7-Eleven.

Negativipeg

Barber Gull Rub

  • 2008
  • Matthew Rankin

A perfervid “docu-fantasia” about a historical incident in the life of Winnipeg Cinémathque Programmer, Dave Barber.

Barber Gull Rub

Cattle Call

  • 2008
  • Mike Maryniuk, Matthew Rankin

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

Cattle Call

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