Rhayne Vermette Movies

A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea....

Renée arrives to her hometown of Ste. Anne after a long absence. Her brother and his wife are raising her daughter Athene as their own, and...

This story surrounds a pivotal event: the sun does not rise for one day. While the world watches a new sun rise, mysterious events weave together the...

Defying modernity, 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her ancestral farm preserving heirloom seeds.

A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block. Strange things are...

“…while many architects through their time have sought a ‘true house’ or a ‘true architecture’, their truth was...

In this very short animation, an apparition reveals itself through celluloid and transmits vestiges of a forgotten provenance. Have the onlookers...

In this experimental short film specially commissioned from celebrated Métis filmmaker Rhayne Vernette for Severin's All the Haunts Be Ours...

There are few alternatives for exiles. The homecoming may be postponed to an indeterminate future; one could settle for a replacement; and lastly,...

Between Winnipeg and Beirut, Rhayne Vermette and Nour Ouayda take it in turns to create the images of a silent ritual. Are they trying to summon this...

This is the story of the architect, Carlo Mollino, animated within the desk space of failed architect, Rhayne Vermette.

A sequel to her earlier Black Rectangle, and reminiscent of Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren’s groundbreaking animations, Rhayne...

This film is my failed attempt at creating a thematic palindrome of audio/visual samples. When working between two poles of remembering - one easily...

In 2010, Winnipeg director, Guy Maddin exclaims "it's impossible to collage a film!"

Fetishized alpine landscapes of 16mm film collage and rayograms generate an obscured portrait of the godlike, Carlo Mollino. Completed in...

In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt...

An architectural portrait emerges as a transmogrification through various broken projectors. These particular projectors are currently being sold at...

Smoke offers an experience of a space of metamorphoses that is animated and then dissolves, paradoxically, in light. A sequence of highly...

This film documents a tedious process of dismantling and reassembling 16 mm found footage. The film collage imitates functions of a curtain, while...

Woman 2 Woman. An 8-fest commission heavily edited for TV purposes.