Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Airplane Film

    “Airplane show take-offs, landings, mid-air stalls, planes lurching through storms and countless characters yelling over propeller noise. These bits call up every emotion connected with flight: anxiety, longing, escape, destruction, power…It all amounts to fear of flying – just another manipulated sentiment in the context of a regular film, used to set the unconscious on edge without anybody noticing. Here it’s a breathless, liberating free-association.” – Renee Shafransky Spanning 40 years of aviation through feature clips wrenched from their cozy narrative settings, the film switches perspectives relentlessly. Pilots gaze out of windows to static shots of the earth. Air Force…

  • Once

    “Once” is a film about language, loss, and the construction of memory through language. Through voiceovers and fragmented footage, the characters in “Once” tell how they have come to study language in an attempt to relocate themselves at particular junctures in their lives. They describe their desire to learn Yiddish, a language they have speculative connections to or memories of. Their distance from the language and its intrinsic power to link them to an identity seems to increase their appetites for this language lost. Yiddish, it appears, while providing the elements of language, also represents a loss for, and only…

  • Way Out, A

    “A Way Out” is a documentary about breaking the cycle of poverty in Canadian’s oldest and largest “ghetto,” Regent Park. In addition to talking about what it is like to grow up poor in North America, it explores the reasons behind one person finding a way out and others remaining. As a former resident of a low-income community, Christene Browne went back to find out what had happened to some of her old friends. Formal and impromptu interviews are conducted and the community is revealed through footage and stills. A young man who currently lives in the community is also…

  • False Creek

    False Creek was named when industrialists developing the waterway in Vancouver discovered that the creek was actually an inlet.

  • 23

    Mixing live-action with illustration, “23” tells the story of one girl’s discovery that her 23rd birthday means more than she thinks. Andrea, a frustrated and cynical woman, makes her way to an undisclosed location. Following her journey we begin to learn how one’s person life is unknowingly connected and interwined with the lives of others – that randomness is nothing more than a pattern of a deeply imbedded complexity of order, an order so complex it is not immediately discernible or obvious. Inside an industrial building turned loft, Andrea steps into an elevator for an encounter that will change the…

  • Maya’s Dream

    A woman recalls a dream about a friend and a bird. As she relives this memory, a sylph-like fair-faced child flies around a skating rink. A love-poem about the confines of domesticity, place and freedom, and the ephemeral nature of childhood.

  • Sssssssss

    Sssssssssssssomething’s after me!!!! An homage to the one-man sideshow: written, shot, acted, and edited all by one person. Revenge! Revenge!

  • Maids

    bridesmaid/ 1. a girl or a woman attending a bride on her wedding day. 2. N. American, a person or group that never attains a desired goal/.

  • Matter of Gravity, A

    For some women in our “look young, look perfect” culture, the “Big Four 0” is anticipated with anxiety. The film is a comment on this phenomenon.

  • Burning

    A multiplicity of diverse images – cut together rhythmically flicker with energy fire, light, life. “Your life is like a candle. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar