Rhayne Vermette (born 1982; Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba) is a Canadian experimental filmmaker. It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba, that she fell into the practices of image making and storytelling. Primarily self taught, Rhayne’s films are opulent collages of fiction, animation, documentary, reenactments and divine interruption. Ste. Anne is her first feature narrative.
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18 March 2026
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.
28 December 2012
In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt their trajectory & entice everyone to return.
06 June 2016
In this very short animation, an apparition reveals itself through celluloid and transmits vestiges of a forgotten provenance.
20 October 2012
In 2010, Winnipeg director, Guy Maddin exclaims "it's impossible to collage a film!"
28 July 2016
“…while many architects through their time have sought a ‘true house’ or a ‘true architecture’, their truth was something of the past and not so true in the present […] here architecture is a child of the sea, arose from its substance…” — Gio Ponti At the age of 32, I finally ran away from home.
30 December 2012
An architectural portrait emerges as a transmogrification through various broken projectors. These particular projectors are currently being sold at J.
01 June 2019
Smoke offers an experience of a space of metamorphoses that is animated and then dissolves, paradoxically, in light.
01 October 2015
Rob Vilar, the most criminally unknown actor who has walked the planet Earth. Salvaged from a dumpster near the National Screen Institute’s offices in Winnipeg, this video is the seminal preface to this man and his evolving craft.
09 December 2015
Fetishized alpine landscapes of 16mm film collage and rayograms generate an obscured portrait of the godlike, Carlo Mollino.
01 September 2015
“Is this your first visit here?” “Yes.” “Well this whole thing must seem kinda strange to you, huh? You realize that I can’t see you even though you see me.
15 October 2017
This is the story of the architect, Carlo Mollino, animated within the desk space of failed architect, Rhayne Vermette.
01 January 2011
Precluding his destination, that morning, the sky receded into a peculiar darkness. Boarding the northern train, Mr.
15 October 2025
There are few alternatives for exiles. The homecoming may be postponed to an indeterminate future; one could settle for a replacement; and lastly, there is always madness.
15 May 2026
Defying modernity, 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her ancestral farm preserving heirloom seeds.
20 February 2018
A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block.
05 March 2021
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 the return of the prodigal mother is a surprise to all involved.
01 November 2015
This film is my failed attempt at creating a thematic palindrome of audio/visual samples. When working between two poles of remembering - one easily gets confused.
06 September 2025
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 lives of a Sculptor, a Civil Servant and a Security Guard.
29 November 2013
This film documents a tedious process of dismantling and reassembling 16 mm found footage. The film collage imitates functions of a curtain, while the recorded optical track describes the flm's subsequent destruction during its first projection.
07 September 2024
A sequel to her earlier Black Rectangle, and reminiscent of Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren’s groundbreaking animations, Rhayne Vermette’s buzzing miniature A Black Screen Too is a burst of colour and movement undercut by darkness.
21 October 2017
Woman 2 Woman. An 8-fest commission heavily edited for TV purposes.
31 December 2012
A section cut through a transitional editing tool, the dissolve. For Craig Baldwin.
15 October 2024
In this experimental short film specially commissioned from celebrated Métis filmmaker Rhayne Vernette for Severin's All the Haunts Be Ours vol.
01 September 2013
There are few alternatives for exiles. The homecoming may be postponed to an indeterminate future; one could settle for a replacement; and lastly, there is always madness.
01 January 2022
Between Winnipeg and Beirut, Rhayne Vermette and Nour Ouayda take it in turns to create the images of a silent ritual.
