Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Top of the World

    In the American Southwest, the new girl in town falls for the resident dark and dangerous butch over coffee, motorbikes and psycho ex-girlfriends.

  • Redemption of Ogum, The (Redenção de Ogum)

    A haunting, poetic vision from the streets of Brazil. “Today you can find yourself, but soon you will end up getting lost.”

  • Amazing Amazons, The

    A campy combo of live action and animation, “The Amazing Amazons” follows a day in the life of a contemporary female super hero. Aimee is in the midst of a typical Amazon day – fighting censorship, taking out macho attitudes and exposing lies – when her fellow Amazon Amanda rattles her to the very foundation of her Amazon soul.

  • Nesting Season

    Affectionate bunnies romp through the seasons, displaying the cycles of lesbian desire.

  • July’s Wet Dreams

    A hand-processed recipe for a fountain of youth. Comprised of one continuous slow-motion shot, “July’s Wet Dreams” reveals several silhouetted figures amidst a fountain’s watery spray. The hand-processed Super 8 material was manipulated using a variety of coloured toners and application techniques to accentuate the liquid tactility of the image. An evocative portrait of a summer’s day. Honourable Mention for Best Experimental Short, Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2005

  • Choice Chance Women Dance

    A film-poem by a man who attempts to understand and express some of the concerns of women in the early ’70s: woman with woman, woman alone, woman as mother, woman as scientist, woman as dancer. An impressionistic documentary, using pixillation, superimposition, interview and dance-film techniques.

  • To the Happy Few

    “A mind-expanding image jam that uses decades’ worth of found footage. The visuals of croaking frogs, 1950s’ housewives, fake suns and much more are structured around a mystical mandala and perfectly set to a Bollywood beat.” – Images Festival, 2004 “A punchy, satirical ride that mixes food, sex and violence in perverse Kuleshevian suggestions, all with great comedic timing. A great example of film giving birth to itself in hybrid, mutated forms.” – Genevieve Yue, What the Eye Sees, 2003 Awards: Hessian Film Prize for Best Short Film, 2003; Honourable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004

  • Post mark lick

    “Post mark lick” is “a love-song to the pre-digital age of postal correspondence and photogram animation” (Images Festival, 2003). It explores the materiality of the postage stamp and the fleeting narratives of letters and postcards.

  • Jetsam

    An exaltation of the everyday, made using the photogram technique of exposing objects directly onto film; Wire mesh, fibrefill, salt, paper, steel wool, cherry blossoms, grease, spit, bubble wrap, tea leaves, washer rings and a drain-stopper chain are transformed in the process.

  • Flora’s Film

    In 1873, Eadweard Muybridge, commonly referred to as “the father of the motion picture,” succeeded in photographically freezing a horse mid-gallop. One year later, he shot and killed his wife’s lover. Using an evocative collection of found footage and sounds, Wilson channels the voice of Flora Muybridge, imagining her response to her husband’s act and subsequent acquittal at trial.