Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Mondo Punk

    In the beginning were the Sex Pistols. All the ikons of the Punk Movement and more. Anarchistic anti-art calculated to offend. “It’s violent… it scared the shit out of me a couple of times.” – Freddy Pompeii, The Viletones

  • Artist on Fire: The Work of Joyce Wieland

    Joyce Wieland was, for well over thirty years, one of Canada’s most exciting and innovative artists. She worked in virtually every artistic medium, including cloth works, pastels, coloured pencils, oils, bronze, watercolours, and films of all gauges. One of the founding group of what came to be known as structural filmmakers in New York in the late 60s, she was also one of the first artists of this century to break into women’s traditional crafts as an art form, and used both film and cloth works as platforms for her principal political subjects – ecology, Canadian nationalism, and feminism. This…

  • Moscow Summer

    “Moscow Summer” is a street-level portrait of Moscow and its people. This lyrical documentary interweaves compelling visual sequences with impromptu interviews to create a rich and realistic portrait of the city. While Moscow’s political and social turmoil form an undercurrent in the film, ultimately “Moscow Summer” is a film about love and humanity – and those are the qualities with which it has been made.

  • Multiple Choice

    “Multiple Choice” uses offbeat humour to explore the theme of poverty in the consumer society. The film tells the story of Meg Harris, a compulsive shopper who is coming to grips with her high-consumption lifestyle.

  • Museum

    We all make our own ghosts – we take the people and experiences and events that have affected us the most, and encourage them to haunt us. “Museum” is, on every level, replete with ghosts and hauntings. Penny, the narrator and filmmaker, is obsessed with the impossible task of capturing the ghosts that reside within her life on film (the most literal and unforgiving of mediums). Yet even as she struggles with this mission (one common to many image-takers), her own substance and “realness”are brought into question, as her disembodied voice carries us through the narrative. (CW)

  • My Cunt

    What do Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson Lee, and your grandmother have in common? A litany of cunts.

  • My Own Obsession

    “My Own Obsession” is a film interested in the implications of identity and the archeology of those mental layers that represent our identities. It is a journey through the identity of an Armenian-Canadian woman during a specific period, which is documented through interviews with various individuals about their encounters and experiences with the protagonist. The line between documentary and fiction is blurred. The cinematic impact unfolds into poetic visual metaphors, which weave themselves throughout the film. It is a film which explores the relationship of the viewer to the film. An unknown archivist/filmmaker structures the cinematic experience through the guise…

  • My Quills Click When I Walk

    The porcupine and the wolf converse in a forest underwood where light literally strobes through the trees. The porcupine delights in the clicks of her quills when she walks. When the wolf attempts to compete, she cleverly works him into a duet and all is well until the two are perturbed by a bee. An animated film which takes a subtle look at sources of aggression.

  • My Withered Tomato Friend

    “My Withered Tomato Friend” is a haunting, experimental narrative that merges the roaming voice of a battered wife with popular images of women to question the conventional ideology of representation and the denial of domestic violence. Alternating between provocative poetry and submissive prose, the voice echoes terrifying thoughts of the abused woman while gradually deconstructing – and reconstructing- manipulated found footage. “Absolutely exhilarating to watch, this is the hard edge of feminist experimental cinema.” – Piers Handling, Director, Toronto International Film Festival One Star Award, Canadian International Amateur Film Festival, 1992

  • Name Change: A California Film

    Barbara Martineau became Sara Halprin and made this film to mark the change.