Joyce Wieland

Born: 1930-06-30

Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) was an experimental filmmaker and artist, whose work challenged and bridged boundaries among avant garde film factions of her time. Her works introduced a kind of manual manipulation of the filmstrip that inscribed an explicitly female craft tradition into her films, while also playing with the facticity of photographed images. Wieland's output was small, but received considerable attention in comparison to other female avant garde filmmakers of her time. As both a gallery artist and a filmmaker, Wieland was able to crossover between those realms and garner attention and support in both. In 1963 Wieland and Snow moved to New York where they lived for ten years. She attracted critical recognition of her work but eventually moved back to Toronto. Wieland later divorced Snow and kept a low profile until her death in 1998 from Alzheimer's disease. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.


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Wavelength

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-29

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the...

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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

as uncredited
Released: 1974-11-05

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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Home Movies 1971-81

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-01

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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Manual of Arms

as uncredited
Released: 1966-12-31

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his...

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Zorns Lemma

as uncredited
Released: 1970-04-01

Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's...

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Portrait of Snow

as Herself
Released: 2016-12-23

A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow...

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Back and Forth

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-21

A camera moves back and forth at an increasing pace. Back and forth, back and forth...

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A and B in Ontario

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

Joyce Wieland: “Hollis and I came back to Toronto on holiday in the summer of '67. We were...

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The Sky Socialist

as Love's Labor
Released: 1968-08-31

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a...

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Standard Time

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-02

Experimental short in which a camera pans quickly in a small apartment space; Disembodied voices...

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Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland

as Self
Released: 1987-09-12

Considered one of Canada's most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century,...

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Knocturne

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-01

The rising moon is the main theme in this short movie of three people and an animal going about...

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