Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
Directed by Guy Maddin
72 min54 frames
ComedyHorror
It all happened in a Gimli we no longer know.
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What is Tales from the Gimli Hospital about?
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Tales from the Gimli Hospital is a 1988 Canadian 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 16mm film and stars Kyle McCulloch as Einar, a lonely fisherman who contracts smallpox and begins to compete with another patient, Gunnar for the attention of the young nurses.
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Where can you watch Tales from the Gimli Hospital?
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Who made Tales from the Gimli Hospital?
Guy MaddinDirector- Greg KlymkiwProducer
- Stephen SnyderProducer
What does the cinematography of Tales from the Gimli Hospital look like?
Sampled across 54 frames, the coverage of Tales from the Gimli Hospital leans on close-ups (35% of the sample) and medium shots (35%). The lighting keeps 57% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 78% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 69% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Tales from the Gimli Hospital?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) are #020202, #313131, #909090, #cacaca, #6c6c6c, #fcfcfc — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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