Guy Maddin's fever dream where a mustache is a character.
A surreal short film featuring a zookeeper with a large moustache.
Direction
Maddin's signature silent-film-on-acid aesthetic crammed into four minutes.
Cinematography
Sepia-soaked, flickering images that feel excavated from someone's fever.
Director
Guy Maddin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of Maddin's 'Seances' project, where he 'remade' lost films that never actually existed.
Maddin's work here echoes early Surrealist cinema—think Buñuel's 'Un Chien Andalou'—but filtered through Canadian prairie gothic.
US
CA
