Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Over the Island

    On the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the act of leaving has become ingrained into the culture. Since the closure of its main industries, the Glace Bay coal mine and the Sydney steel plant, many young families have been forced to relocate, migrating thousands of miles in the pursuit of work. ‘Over the Island’ is an experimental documentary that follows a mother traveling back home to the island, and a filmmaker attempting to connect the past with the present. This film deconstructs the concept of ‘home’, and investigates how one’s sense of belonging, self identification and familial relationship are…

  • Hammu

    Hammu is the name of the hamster I had as a child. It seemed it was my only friend and being to identify with. One day it disappeared from the cage and was never to be seen again; that event marked the end of my childhood, of unreserved trust and commitment. The work is a visualization of memories I have about the event ,of obsessions, tediousness, and loss. (SV)

  • Freya

    Tethering falconry and motherhood, Freya weaves together themes of death and magic, where seasons re-arrange, just as myth and memory are re-cast through a childhood spell.

  • Gags N’ Gals: Male Order

    A short experimental film inspired by the paintings of biblical women from German Renaissance painter, Lucas Cranach. The film reimagines Cranach’s paintings through a modern, critical lens, exploring female sensuality and their ability to use it as their own personal weapons.

  • Hand

    Using spray paint and markers, the film animates moving hand shapes, outlined hands, crossing hands, hand prints, intertwining fingers. This simple visual concept, hand outline tracings, shows the artistry involved in the manipulation of colour, texture, and rhythm.

  • Handtinting

    “‘Handtinting’ is the apt title of a film made from outtakes from a Job Corps documentary which features hand-tinted sections. The film is full of small movements and actions, gestures begun and never completed. Repeated images, sometimes in colour, sometimes not. A beautifully realized type of chamber-music film whose sum-total feeling is ritualistic.” – Robert Cowan, Take One

  • The Blactor

    On route to a “gansta” audition, a young Black actress must prove to a cop that she’s not the role she’s auditioning for.

  • Meditation 4 Black Women

    Four women, with seemingly unrelated lives, meditate on identity setting off a mystical event that allows them to breathe again.

  • Whispers Mary

    As Venla documents plants in solitude, she slips deep into the fantastical world she observes and begins to question her own reality. Whispers Mary is a Canada Council for the Arts-funded short experimental digital/analog film.

  • Happy Birthday Baby

    Bonding between parents and baby helps create the new family; this process is clearly explained in a warm and informative way. As the family prepares for the birth of a child, the relationships of parents and siblings, as well as the birth itself, appear through film.