Guy Maddin wins $10,000 video award

Winnipeg filmmaker and video artist Guy Maddin has won the $10,000 Bell Award in Video Art, the Canada Council for the Arts announced Monday.

Maddin, known for works such as My Winnipeg and The Saddest Music in the World, won the prize for exceptional contribution by a Canadian video artist to the advancement of video art.

Maddin has a distinctive style, creating dream-like images and fantasy sequences in black and white.

Many of his experimental films have become cult classics, including  Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988); and Archangel (1990). Five of his films have been collected in a DVD set, The Quintessential Guy Maddin: Tales from the Heart of Winnipeg.

Maddin continues to work out of Winnipeg and is filmmaker in residence at the University of Manitoba.