Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Bridging the Gap

    An evolution on the Pied Piper theme. The child who was left behind in the original story is now able to keep up due to the effort and bravery on his part and the enlightened concern on the part of others. Produced for the United Nations’ Year of the Disabled.

  • Passengers

    Evocative, passionate and poetic, this film is a compelling and moving exploration of the relationship between a daughter and her father as she matures from childhood to adulthood. On the day of his funeral, she draws on the legacy of his love, understanding, and compassion, and comes to term with her sexual identity.

  • Brief Life, A

    “A Brief Life” is a poetic homage to a farmer and the cows he raises. Shot over the course of a year on a small farm in rural Ontario, it follows the same cow through the cycle of the seasons from hours after its birth right on through until it is sold for meat. It is a film concerned with documenting an entire process from beginning to end and allowing the viewer to watch it unfold. “A Brief Life” is not an anti-meat film. It comes out of the concern that by living in an urban environment we can become…

  • Tracing Soul

    “Tracing Soul” is a poetic bodyscape where the sacred, sensual, primordial and profane female form imagines and evokes the possibilities of the soul through the coalescing of the fragments, intimate gestures, oblique angles, disintegrating lines and shadows, music and text enveloping the bodily compositions. Also available on the DVD compilation “Artist Spotlight Series: Michelle Mohabeer.”

  • Petals

    In 1999 the newspapers in Kerala South India broke a shocking tale of two young lesbian girls who ended their lives beneath a train. A note they carried stated that they were ending their lives because they had failed in their long struggle to live together in the harsh and hypocritical society of Kerela. It is an irony that Kerela is 100 per cent literate and one of the most literate places in the world. This film picks up on the agony of those innocent girls and many others who still struggle for their emotional rights.

  • Mothercraft

    In part, a thank you to his mother, and in part a musing over how he became so “arty.” Filmmaker Roy Mitchell looks at his mother, her life, and the inspiration she gave him.

  • leda & the swan

    “leda & the swan” is an intimate and sensual rendering of the impulses which shape our search for meaning. A filmmaker asks two actors to dramatize a personal story about the end of a traumatic love affair, and quickly finds herself deeply immersed not only in the actors’ complex interpretation of her story, but also in the emotional world of their own evolving relationship. Through the intermingling of the ancient myth of Leda and the Swan, the filmmaker’s personal story, and the intricate dynamics of the young actors, the deeper, poetic and archetypal aspects of all love stories – of…

  • Light Magic

    “Movies arise out of magic.” – Stanley Cavell “Light Magic” utilizes and examines one of the earliest photographic processes, discovered at the birth of the photographic medium: the photogram. This technique combines science and art in order to record the process of transformation. Images created through this technique are traces of light that pass through each object, leaving their mark on the film surface. Photograms bring both the maker and the viewer closer to the object, thus revealing its essence – that neither the naked eye nor the camera lens could see. “Light Magic” was one of the fifteen films…

  • Whites, The

    A dark and comic look at a tortured family and their frenetic daily rituals. The Whites’ existence centres around a mysterious library card catalog, which serves both as a source and repository for traces of family life. The catalog’s system of perfection intersects with the rigid hierarchy of this household. Manipulated voices replace dialogue, and although words are unintelligible, we understand the Whites very well. Highly sylized yet grounded in humanity, this film is a disturbingly funny tale of home and hearth.

  • Contretemps of Christmas

    It’s Christmas day and festivities are underway in the Porkloin household. Mother’s holiday fever runs high, the ill-advised gifts have been opened, but the biggest gift still remains. . . In the spirit of demented fairy tale, this microfilm explores a darker side of the holidays.