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Tales From the Gimli Hospital Redux


Screening times:
Friday, December 2, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, December 3, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening

Guy Maddin | Canada | 1988 | 64m | Icelandic and English

with Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck, Margaret Anne MacLeod, Heather Neale, David Neale, Caroline Bonner

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux is the 4k restoration (including the replacement of a long-lost scene) of the 1988 cult classic about blistering lust and seething envy during a 19th-century epidemic ravaging Gimli, a small Icelandic-Canadian fishing village on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.

Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospital is a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room "in a Gimli we no longer know." The two men, Einar (Kyle McCulloch) and Gunnar (Michael Gottli) are friends at first, until they reveal their darkest secrets to each other. Tales of creeping pestilence, unconsummated passions, reckless envy and necrophilia are told, climaxing in a deadly battle between the two patients, now rivals. Does a better world await these two lost souls on Earth... or in Heaven?

Tickets $8.75 ($8 at the door if available).

Half capacity

Half capacity

Earlier Event: November 25
EO
Later Event: December 9
Tantura