Maddin's first short film (as director, writer, producer, and cinematographer) was The Dead Father, a forty-minute black-and-white film about a young man whose father dies but continues to visit his family and disapprove of his son's life. Maddin began shooting The Dead Father in 1982 and finished the film in 1985.
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