Filmed during the shooting of Paul Gross's Hyena Road (2015), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton is an amalgamation of behind-the-scenes footage shot. Halfway between experimental art and documentary film, it can be seen as a scathing sarcasm of the making/mocking of big budget war films. Acclaimed director Guy Maddin is part of the film crew, he winds up taking solace in the ramshackle desert as an extra. This is when he decides to take things up his sleeves and manages to represent a state of generalized anxiety, reflecting on his life that envelops the whole film, making it credibly contemporary rather than futuristic. His dissent is towards the depiction of Hollywood war films and a broke nomad wandering in the desert as a freelance is the boiling point for Maddin to come up with his own design of Gross's big budget film. Maddin alternates the sequences filmed from another angle, the underside of the shoot, the back of the set. The film is almost surreal, feels like a psychedelic video game epic and in black and white in few parts. But it is not just the experimental film, because Maddin intends to overcome the state of torpor provoked to draw his film towards the Hollywood metaphor in a funny way.
