The Far Shore

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.

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For Life, Against the War

For 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...

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Rat Life and Diet in North America

Rat Life and Diet in North America

“This film is against the corporate military industrial structure of global village.”

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Reason Over Passion

Reason Over Passion

The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

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Cat Food

Cat Food

A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish.

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Dripping Water

Dripping 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...

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Water Sark

Water 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...

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A and B in Ontario

A 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...

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Birds at Sunrise

Birds 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...

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Larry's Recent Behaviour

Larry'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...

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New York Eye and Ear Control

New 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...

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Bill's Hat

Bill'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...

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Barbara’s Blindness

Barbara’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...

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Sailboat

Sailboat

A day at the Beach, at the Sea, at the Sky and at the Sailboats.

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Solidarity

Solidarity

About a strike in which women are involved, but told in a very different way.

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Pierre Vallières

Pierre 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...

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Patriotism

Patriotism

Patriotism, Part One depicts an army of phallic, bun-clad wieners marching on a vulnerable sleeping white male body, naked save for a sheet.

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Patriotism Part II

Patriotism 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...

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Handtinting

Handtinting

Handtinting, a five-minute silent study of young girls dancing, swimming, and observing one another by Joyce Wieland, […] has a quality that is...

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Peggy's Blue Skylight

Peggy'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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