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Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Tales from the Gimli Hospital is a 1988 film directed by Guy Maddin. His feature film debut, it was his second film after the short "The Dead Father". "Tales from the Gimli Hospital" was shot in black and white on 16 mm film and stars Kyle McCulloch as Einar, a lonely fisherman who contracts smallpox and begins to compete with another patient, Gunnar (played by Michael Gottli) for the attention of the young nurses.
Maddin had himself endured a recent
distributed other cult films such as the John Waters film "Pink Flamingos" and David Lynch's debut feature "Eraserhead". "Tales from the Gimli Hospital" consequently screened for a full year as a midnight movie at the Quad Theatre in New York's Greenwich Village. Maddin received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay as well, although the script consisted of a series of Post-it notes.
Along with Maddin's debut short film, "The Dead Father," "Tales from the Gimli Hospital"