Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Trinidad

    “Trinidad” uncovers Trinidad, Colorado’s transformation from Wild West outpost to “sex-change capital of the world,” and follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the “transsexual mecca.”

  • My Lesbian Friend

    A young girl catches a wild lesbian in her backyard. After getting permission from her mother, the girl can keep the lesbian as a pet, but only for the day.

  • For the Lucky and the Strong

    “For the Lucky and the Strong” synchronizes appropriated YouTube clips from nine young women to create a united chorus singing Bette Midler’s “The Rose.” Evoking a stalker-like quality by design, “For the Lucky and the Strong” makes the viewer complicit as voyeur, along with the masses who fixate on vulnerable young girls. The women stare into their webcams, some self-consciously, in an act of performative bravery and dramatic teenage angst, but they cannot hold the gaze and look away.

  • Divine Solitude

    A performance film featuring dancer-choreographer Nana Gleason, whose solo works are an incisive and spellbinding alchemy of modern Western dance forms and Far-Eastern traditions. “Nana Gleason makes of her art an almost monastic exercise that follows its own set of gestural imperatives. Most notable is the way she flirts with a nameless physical otherness, sometimes through the use of physical extensions (a single platform boot, an extra long arm). She is a compelling figure, lovingly revealed in Lariviere’s film.” – Robert Everett-Green, The Globe & Mail “Lariviere, supported by the discreet cinematography of Peter Mettler and Kemp Archibald, has kept…

  • RIFF

    RIFF is a short portrait of a Chicago-based tap dance team; three women who call themselves ‘Rhythm Iss’ These Bold women use dance as their voice, choosing to express themselves through tap. Their movements give life to a message of empowerment and celebration. In this film we drop into their practice space to experience the raw beauty of their dance rehersal.

  • Division

    Erotic Feminism. A short sexy film which pauses briefly to reveal the inner subjectivity of the female/filmmaker. Starring Steve Butson and Kika Thorne, camera by Timo Reiman, lights by Jerry Shallow.

  • Our Future Is Bright

    This atmospheric short film alludes to a catastrophic event that has left two women grief-stricken and isolated in a barren snow-covered wilderness. Their intimate life together is shaken when they discover a man lying unconscious in the frozen terrain. For Bria, the older of the two women, he represents hope for the future and the possibility of a child. For Renee, he threatens to disrupt a life that has given her refuge from the traumas of violence. Renee must ultimately decide between having a child and her personal desire to remain free from emotional attachment. Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award…

  • Do Not Feed This Child

    This provocative meditation reflects the inner mind of a woman looking back on the incidents of trauma and isolation from her childhood. A stream-of -consciousness narration and fluid imagery allude to sexual abuse, and to emotional withdrawal as a way of coping with the absence of support and understanding.

  • Song of the Suicide’s Daughter

    Kaja Johnson was one of the few female beat poets who managed to become known to the general public. In this film, Johnson’s poem Song of the Suicide’s Daughter (1964) is articulated and reanimated using stills and animation. “I met Kay by accident in Athens and we talked a lot over coffee-we tried to start a little poetry magazine. She came back to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. I think she became a kind of street guru. This animation is based on a poem in her book. Very loose style: photos Xeroxed and hand-coloured, bits of coloured cels and a few drawings.”…

  • Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley, The

    Beautifully shot and edited, this tender drama ambitiously tells its story with openly emotional acting and music. Joan is a 40-ish woman in North London, a devout Catholic who looks after her mum with the help of a nurse, Pat. As Joan and Pat become friends, Pat discovers Joan’s love of singing and invites her to join her choir, “The Friends of Dusty.” But it takes Joan awhile to realize that this is a lesbian choir, and as a performance at the Various Voices festival on the Southbank approaches, Joan gets cold feet in more ways than one. – Rich…