Death of the Reel (2008) Online
Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect. The tongue-in-cheek project begins in a Winnipeg bar where filmmaker Guy Maddin (played by, yes, Guy Maddin) reads a newspaper article declaring the death of cinema in the United States. He decides to ride - or fly - to the rescue. The idea is that the young people have been zombified by their iPhones and iPods and have become celluloid illiterates who watch postage stamp-sized movies on tiny screens. Maddin comes to Kansas to save cinema.
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Guy Maddin | - | Himself |
 | Lloyd Kaufman | - | Himself |
 | Lydia Lunch | - | Narrator |
 | Kevin Wohler | - | The Cinema Curmudgeon |
| Jessica Fahey | - | The Nurse |
| Shelly Jennings | - | The Woman |
| Blaise Mank | - | The Child |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Jordy Altman | - | The Romantic Man |
| Justin Bauer | - | Video Horde |
| Jonathan Dalbe | - | Video Horde |
| Jessi Hardy | - | Video Horde (as Jessi Davis) |
| Ann Hsieh | - | The Actress |
| Bruce Hutchinson | - | The Actor |
| Joseph Lalli | - | Digital Man |
| Maddie Mossman | - | Teenager |