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An Afternoon With Matthew Rankin - Doc Shorts Retrospective And Artist Talk at CUFF Docs 2026

  • Globe Cinema, 617 8 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta · Calgary
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An Afternoon With Matthew Rankin - Doc Shorts Retrospective And Artist Talk at CUFF Docs 2026
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Opening Night filmmaker Matthew Rankin joins CUFF Lead Programmer Cameron Macgowan to peel back the curtain on a selection of his previous short-form documentary work.
screened with a short film
CATTLE CALL
4 minutes Canada (Animation / Documentary / Experimental / Retro)
CATTLE CALL is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.

NEGATIVIPEG
14 minutes Canada (Documentary / Experimental / Retro)
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.

KUBASA IN A GLASS: THE STRANGE WORLD OF THE WINNIPEG TV COMMERCIAL
55 minutes Canada (Documentary / Found Footage / Retro)
A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg’s civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own low-budget, lo-fi TV advertising produced between 1975 and 1992.

A DAY IN GRASSLANDS
3 minutes Canada (Documentary / Experimental / Retro)
A DAY IN GRASSLANDS is an experimental short film directed by acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin. The project was commissioned by Parks Canada (Parcs Canada) as part of a series called Alain Clavier Inspired Interludes.
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