Matthew Rankin has created an experimental documentary, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney," examining the unusual political career of Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who was elected in 1984. Rather than employing traditional documentary techniques, Rankin employs avant-garde surrealism and gonzo journalism methods to critique political media coverage and the nature of Canadian Conservative politics. The film is notable because it represents a departure from conventional biographical filmmaking, using psychological and visual extremes to interrogate how politics is presented and consumed through modern media language.

The film comprises solely archival footage, audio clips, animations and original material crafted with an internet-aesthetic sensibility, structured in chapters that explore different eras of Mulroney's career. Rankin's approach is deliberately merciless, transforming politicians into caricatures, though he uses their own contradictory statements rather than outright misrepresentation. The director focuses on political statements rather than actions, and deliberately ends the narrative at a point allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions about contemporary implications. The psychedelic visual style—featuring distorted colours, feverish imagery and musical interludes—creates a tone simultaneously hilarious and unsettling.