Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Interviews with My Next Girlfriend

    The fight to win the title of next girlfriend is the subject of this hilarious short by director Cassandra Nicolaou. Starring a cast of Toronto celebrities including Ann-Marie Macdonald, Diane Flacks, Karen Robinson, Shoshana Sperling and Moynan King, nine women are questioned by an unknown interviewer to see if they measure up. Awards: Audience Award & Best Comedy, planetout.com/HBO Short Movie Awards; Audience Favourite, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival; Audience Award, Best Short Film, Inside Out Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival; Best Short Film, Paris Lesbian Film Festival; Audience Award, Best Fiction Film, Bologna International Women’s…

  • Red Book, The

    “The Red Book” is an elliptical, pictographic animated film that uses flat, painted figures and collage elements in both two and three-dimensional settings to explore the realms of memory, language, and identity from the point of view of a woman amnesiac. “The Red Book” suggests the ways in which language defines us, and reaches back into dismemberment myths about creation of different tongues through the breaking apart of bodies (in this case, the woman’s body). As the film progresses, the submerged images of her stored memory appear and collide with the present world in circular rhythms, and there is a…

  • Lost Motion

    Gothic, mechanized and faintly arcane with a provocative erotic charge, Geiser‘s film floats the viewer in a surreal world of subconscious imaginings both seductive and deeply disturbing. “‘Lost Motion’ begins with a male toy figure set in a kitchen. We are familiar with this setting (we’ve all been in kitchens) but estranged from it as well (this kitchen is very creepy)….”- Barry Doyle

  • Chosen Family, The

    Families, whether chosen or biological, have a single aim – to drive us nuts, as this astute and comic film demonstrates.

  • Housesitter, The

    Two neurotic dykes describe in hilarious detail how to take care of their 3 cats.

  • Pineapple

    The film explores a triangular relationship between three women that explodes into violence when the woman controlling the relationship doesn’t get her way. It also explores the reality that to possess or control someone is not the same as loving them. Laura is a woman who desperately wants to possess her lover, but is insecure and unable to fully love her. In beginning Laura and Carrie are a happy couple, but as Laura has an affair with Cat, the relationship becomes unstable. Unable to control Carrie, Laura turns to physical and emotional abuse as her way of keeping Carrie under…

  • Type O

    “Type O” explores a metaphorical comparison between blood and words. Combining stop-motion animation and experimental film techniques, the film inhabits a realm where the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred. In an attempt to defeat her writer’s block, the central character engages in a physical struggle with her typewriter. A finger is caught by the random keying, drawing blood. With the first drop of blood split, words bubble to the surface and the writer’s block begins to clear. Just as blood is life-sustaining fluid, words are the writer’s lifeline. The organic qualities of blood and words are realized visually…

  • Land Slide

    “Land Slide” is a collage of Super 8 footage and found sounds merged through time and space in an exploration of colour and light, consciousness and imagination. An ambiguous trance rhythm moves sound and image freely across the screen, inviting viewer to play a part in the daydream.

  • Awake at Dawn

    “Awake at Dawn” mingles narrative, experimental and animation techniques to enter the subconscious of a man who decides to abandon sleep in an attempt to refine his mind, body and spirit. Over the course of several sleepless nights the character slips further away from his immediate reality. In this misguided quest for fulfillment, the character alienates what is really important to him: the woman he loves, who in facing emotional abandonment leaves him in an ultimately sobering state of sleeplessness.

  • Felicity’s View

    “Felicity’s View” is a film about two aging people who find their lives transformed by the rekindling of romantic desire. Felicity’s lonely world is suddenly changed by the arrival of an attractive bird-watcher in the park across the street from her balcony. After glimpsing Felicity through his binoculars, he returns repeatedly to the park to await her next appearance. As their mutual fascination grows, an erotic resonance begins to build.