Joyce Wieland
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.
Wavelength
as uncreditedWavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the...
Movie page‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
as uncreditedVarious unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
Movie pageHome Movies 1971-81
as uncreditedHome movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Movie pageManual of Arms
as uncreditedIn this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his...
Movie pageZorns Lemma
as uncreditedZorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's...
Movie pagePortrait of Snow
as HerselfA serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow...
Movie pageBack and Forth
as uncreditedA camera moves back and forth at an increasing pace. Back and forth, back and forth...
Movie pageA and B in Ontario
as uncreditedJoyce Wieland: “Hollis and I came back to Toronto on holiday in the summer of '67. We were...
Movie pageThe Sky Socialist
as Love's LaborKen Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a...
Movie pageStandard Time
as uncreditedExperimental short in which a camera pans quickly in a small apartment space; Disembodied voices...
Movie pageArtist on Fire: Joyce Wieland
as SelfConsidered one of Canada's most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century,...
Movie pageKnocturne
as uncreditedThe rising moon is the main theme in this short movie of three people and an animal going about...
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