The Far Shore
A young woman marries a wealthy man she isn't in love with, but finds romance instead with the couples' painter friend.
See moreFor Life, Against the War
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
See moreRat Life and Diet in North America
“This film is against the corporate military industrial structure of global village.”
See moreReason Over Passion
The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...
See moreCat Food
A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish.
See moreDripping Water
You see nothing but a white, crystal white plate, and water dripping into the plate, and you hear the sound of the water dripping. The film is ten...
See moreWater Sark
"I decided to make a film at my kitchen table, there is nothing like knowing my table. The high art of the housewife. You take prisms, glass...
See moreA and B in Ontario
Joyce Wieland: “Hollis and I came back to Toronto on holiday in the summer of '67. We were staying at a friend's house. We worked our way through...
See moreBirds at Sunrise
"The film [Birds at Sunrise] was originally photographed in 1972. Birds from my window were filmed during the winter, through to the spring, with...
See moreLarry's Recent Behaviour
One of Joyce Wieland's earliest works, shot in 8mm and finally blown-up to 16mm, “Larry’s Recent Behaviour” has been described by Simon Field as an...
See moreNew York Eye and Ear Control
A cutout of a woman's silhouette is displayed in many locations while a free jazz soundtrack is heard. The jazz musicians later pose for the camera...
See moreBill's Hat
"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera...
See moreBarbara’s Blindness
Constructed from found and stock footage, Barbara’s Blindness is a meditation on vision and adversity, drawing humour and pathos from a moralising...
See moreSailboat
A day at the Beach, at the Sea, at the Sky and at the Sailboats.
See moreSolidarity
About a strike in which women are involved, but told in a very different way.
See morePierre Vallières
We do not actually see Pierre Vallieres, we see only his lips, his teeth, as he talks in French. English subtitles translate what he says. He...
See morePatriotism
Patriotism, Part One depicts an army of phallic, bun-clad wieners marching on a vulnerable sleeping white male body, naked save for a sheet.
See morePatriotism Part II
In a way a portrait of Dave Shackman with the American flag. The ending is a stop-motion animation of a set table with food moving and swirling and...
See moreHandtinting
Handtinting, a five-minute silent study of young girls dancing, swimming, and observing one another by Joyce Wieland, […] has a quality that is...
See morePeggy's Blue Skylight
Filmed in Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow’s loft in New York, the film covers a day of friends visiting, writing and drawing from noon of one day to...
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