Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Phone Comes to Jammu, A

    When her relatives in India finally gets a phone, a young woman contemplates how this “new” technology will narrow or widen the gap between her lesbian diasporic self and her relatives overseas. Does easy access guarantee closeness?

  • Thirst

    “Tammy Ballaban wants to leave her mark, to be remembered, to stay safe. So she stops eating. ‘Thirst’ is an unconventional and beautifully structured meditation about eating disorders, hunger and desire, our need for identity, and control. A sumptuous collage of image and sound reflects the amorphous dialectic between conscious and unconscious drives.” – Lynne Fernie Selected screenings: Documentary Channel (Ontario), broadcast, 2006; Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2002; Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, 2002; Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2002.

  • The Touch

    A styling babe finds out that sometimes what you touch can really take you there.

  • Rich

    A woman of the world finds herself lost, and lost, and lost again.

  • C’est la vie

    “A mini-presentation of consciousness dealing with cosmos. The world in a grain of sand. Connections between life, death, and the world are neither static nor symmetrical but flowing and intuitive. The movement of emulsion through which images are seen is like the mind trying to retrieve and put things together. “C’est la vie” is a positive muscular little thing.” – Rae Davis Sound by Rainer Wiens.

  • Luminous

    Film as history, propaganda, time travel, and the movement of light.

  • Helpless

    Based on a tale from the work of Maritime folklorist Helen Creighton, “Helpless” is set in a fogbound world of superstition and magic. When a strange and terrifying illness befalls Walton Collins’ son Mortimer, the fisherman turns to a mysterious stranger with elemental powers to heal the helpless boy. An unsettling tale from the past, “Helpless” mines the dark realms of sorcery and desire. “Helpless” is conceived as both a cultural film work and an homage to Helen Creighton. The script for “Helpless” comes out of a collaboration with respected visual artist Eric Walker. A native Nova Scotian, Maritime history…

  • Silent Song

    “Silent Song” brings new life to a remarkable piece of 1945 footage found by chance in an archive. “Silent Song” completes a deeply personal trilogy on family history and Holocaust memory. The first two films of the trilogy, “Zyklon Portrait” (13min. 1999) and “The Walnut Tree” (11min. 2000) have been seen in 20 countries around the globe, garnering numerous awards. In the pandemonium of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Dachau, a U.S. army cameraman filmed a young boy playing the accordian. This strangely poetic moment offers an unusual contrast to the all-too-familiar WWII liberation images of emaciated prisoners in…

  • Sweet Boy

    “Sweet Boy” reveals an imaginative lesbian world where erotic fantasies bring sexual healing. Filmmaker Karen Everett’s thoughtful, stylized and highly personal memoir focuses on the psychological and spiritual dynamics of Mommy/Boy role-play in dyke relationships. Sexy ageplay with a maternal femme catalyzes a wild, energetic boy in Everett’s psyche. Beautifully shot, this compelling Jungian autobiography dramatizes the filmmaker’s inner struggle, sexual adventures and lesson in mothering herself.

  • Camera People

    This multi-ethnic collage of home movies shows people’s various reactions when they realize they are “on camera.” Dancing kids upstage one another while bolder characters upstage the camera lens. “Camera People” provides upbeat insights into the meaning of home movies and people’s relationship to them. “This vibrant display of home movie conventions is as much about people as filmmaking.” – After Image