Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Stop Calling Me Honey Bunny

    It’s a journey most of us are familiar with. One that starts with lust, passion, intense love and joy and eventually dwindles down the road of routine, familiarity and day to day banalities. Once flirtatious and sexually charged exchanges give way to grocery list reminders and ‘honey, do you have to chew like that?’ type requests. But what happens when a couple of bunnies, who started off their relationship shagging like… well, bunnies… find themselves in the same bind? ‘Stop Calling Me Honey Bunny’ follows our bunny couple on their dedicated journey to revive their sex life. From role play,…

  • Click

    When our intrepid heroine Darcy gets her heart broken on her 30th birthday, her friends rally around to help her recover. To lift her spirits, they concoct a two-step plan: 1. Get revenge on the heartbreaker 2. Get Darcy fast hookups via online dating sites Mayhem ensues.

  • Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels

    This compelling film profile of Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart uses archival material, interviews with family and friends, readings and dramatic re-creations to portray a writer who was mythologized in her own lifetime. Elizabeth Smart died in England in 1986, at the age of 72. She is best known for her novel “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept,” published in 1945, a story of passion and obsession inspired by her love affair with the English poet George Barker. The years subsequent to that dramatic period – the complex relationship she developed with Baker, the period of literary exile…

  • Arrhythmia

    Footage from a cardiac catheterization, intertwined with a recording of a telephone conversation and old 8mm home films, tell the story of a mother’s conflicting desire to escape a poor marriage by returning to her homeland, despite the possibility of being victimized at the hands of the government upon her return due to a past incident. “Arrhythmia” is an intimate piece about family, distance and identity.

  • Elizabeth Taylor Sometimes

    Using a monologue format to humorously explore the nature of celebrity and the relationship we have to images on television, “Elizabeth Taylor Sometimes” features an excellent performance from Davey (who also wrote the piece) and is assuredly directed by Strutt.

  • Submerged Queer Spaces

    Submerged Queer Spaces is a documentary feature that examines queer history through an approach of urban archeology. Our cameras look at surviving architectural details of old haunts as if unearthing ancient monuments. As San Francisco grew and gentrified, communities changed, shifted, and were displaced. Bars, restaurants, parks, alleys, bathhouses, and other gathering spots of the queer community were remodeled, repurposed, rebuilt, or destroyed. Submerged Queer Spaces looks at the architectural remains of historic sites and buildings in San Francisco. Eight interview subjects recount firsthand experiences in these lost environs. Gerald Fabien experienced gay San Francisco before WWII, and tells tales…

  • The Alicorn

    The film takes the form of a three-tiered hallucination: a dream within a dream within a dream. A pharaoh time travels from the future to ancient Egypt and dreams of a medieval tavern where people are suffering from the Black Plague. In the tavern, on the brink of death, an old crone tells her life story. The woman’s story, narrated in old English song, alludes to her salvation by the appearance of an alicorn borne by her younger sister. Themes of women’s stories, power, and transgression are woven throughout the narrative.

  • 28 Days

    This video pays stylistic homage to girl punks and 1960’s rock and roll girl groups. Camera moves and mise-en-scene are inspired by the 1963 music film for “He’s Got the Power” by the Exciters. The video responds to the song’s theme of menstruation by presenting a series of celebratory images of female solidarity.

  • A & B in Ontario

    “Hollis and I came back to Toronto on holiday in the summer of ’67. We were staying at a friend’s house. We worked our way through the city and eventually made it to the island. We followed each other around. We enjoyed ourselves. We said we were going to make a film about each other – and we did.” – Joyce Wieland “A & B in Ontario” was completed eighteen years after the original material was shot. After Frampton’s death, the film was assembled by Wieland into a cinematic dialogue in which the collaborators (in the spirit of the sixties)…

  • Elle-vis

    Elle-vis: A Woman…Impersonating a Man…Impersonating a Legend Collectively written, produced and directed by a trio of young Toronto filmmakers, “Elle-vis” is an irreverent and offbeat half-hour comedy about a renowned Elvis impersonator who is barred from performing by the all-powerful Elvis Impersonators Union after a lurid tabloid newspaper reveals the slanderous fact that he is… a woman. On the evening of her comback performance, Angela becomes the reluctant centre of a storm of controversy and protest. Outside the nightclub where she is to perform, a crowd of ardent feminists and loyal fans clash with an angry mob of union supporters,…