Film Categories: sexuality

  • (ab) NORMAL

    “In ‘(ab)NORMAL’ the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches.” – Toronto International Film Festival

  • Porcaria

    The year is 1968 and Joaquim and Amalia Quinteiro are just your average young new immigrant couple, drawing blood over money matters and overdosing on culture shock. Into their nest of perfect domestic bliss flies the ever popular, handsome young university student border, Joao. Amalia gets a job and Joaquim’s already flagging machismo shoots off the exit ramp. Perhaps only Joao’s devilish derriere can buttress this poor male ego. A love triangle of unusual proportions, “Porcaria” demonstrates a total lack of resistence to new world charms that has the fish jumping off the walls.

  • Portrait of Lydia

    The emotional life of a young art student is expressed in Freudian terms through a succession of images and symbols, constantly combining themselves into famous paintings and sculptures. A barrage of images that tell different stories to different viewers.

  • Privilege

    The most remarkable thing was the silence that emanated from friends and family regarding the details of my single middle age. When I was younger, my sex life had been the object of all kinds of questioning, from prurient curiosity to solicitous concern. (YR)

  • Razorhead

    “Experimental ‘Razorhead’ …is a jolt and a half that has little to do with any sort of haircut you can get on Astor Place.”- Eliot Stein, Village Voice, 1987 The film was made on the request of the participants as a record of a two-day erotic ritual. 400 feet of film were shot and later permission was obtained to treat the material as an aesthetic composition, approximately 250 feet long. Originally the film was intended as part of a series dealing with non-genital sex and symbolic eroticism.

  • Reading Between the Lines

    Reading the replies to a personal ad she has placed, a woman imagines herself in relationships with three different men. The film uses both layering and fragmentation to weave a web of associations and create a dynamic and fast-moving flow of images and events. Quick flashbacks, like momentary thoughts, accumulate. The reading voice is the constant, a soft steady interior voice around which the images dance and leap. The most dramatic moments of a given scenario are played out in a realistic fashion, and some scenarios, differently imagined, are repeated with each of the men: the restaurant, the dance, the…

  • Reason Over Passion

    “Joyce Wieland’s films are among the most endearing I have ever seen, making her point and sealing the issue in a womanly way without any concern for ragged edges. ‘La Raison Avant la Passion’ is a whirlwind view of Canada with an anti-dialectical premise.” – Douglas Pringle, ArtsCanada “REASON OVER PASSION… is Joyce Wieland’s major film so far. With its many eccentricities, it is a glyph of her artistic personality; a lyric vision tempered by an aggressive form and a visionary patriotism mixed with ironic self parody. It is a film to be seen many times.” – P. Adams Sitney,…

  • Reasonably Barbie

    “Reasonably Barbie” was developed out of frustration with the North American “Beauty Guidelines,” outlined by mass media and advertising. Divided into two parts, the film allows many women (and men too) to take an objective look at the North American “Beauty Myth” starting with a splash of humour and then moving to a more serious approach. The filmmaker hopes that the film will encourage young women to stop hurting themselves for fashion and inspire them to come to realize their own self worth.

  • Roses Are Blue

    “Roses Are Blue” is a short dramatic film exploring a woman’s sensual awakening to spiritual and feminist transformation. A blend of sci-fi, mysticism and modern relationship angst, “Roses Are Blue” was broadcast on WTN (Women’s Television Network) and won 2nd Prize at the 1998 Glebe Scenefest in Sydney, Australia. It features music by David Logan, Chip Yarwood and Edie Steiner.

  • School

    A bad movie about a bad school girl. The kind of spanking-fetish film Disney would have made.