Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Help! I’m Stranded…

    The filmmaker, stranded in a motel room, animates texture rubbings of items that are available, such as matchbooks and bathroom tiles – complementing her drawings with the natural sounds of the rubbing process, doors opening, and water dripping. “The audience is treated to rather simple images seen in a new light” (Grand Rapids Press).

  • Her Soil Is Gold

    “Cause and effect… result of thousands of years of looting and pillage… people remained steadfast…” From the banks of the Nile and the pyramids through modern-day Cairo, the film creates a sense of the timelessness of Egypt which climaxes on a tourist boat in the shimmering heat of the Red Sea. Optically printed, a manipulation of image, time, colour, and subtle light. A subtle statement on white, middle-class values.

  • Her Violet Garden

    Through painful and nostalgic recollections, a young refugee woman tries to come to terms with the losses of war, her shattered life, and the alienation between her and her mother. “…It is with subtlety and a touch of magic that Irena Joannides manages to delve into this woman’s inner world, unfolding in front of the viewer’s eyes her protagonist’s nostalgia, her most intimate thoughts and desires, which recount lost persons and places.” – Ricardo Lopes, Cine-Epiloge

  • Sex is Sex

    Sex is Sex is a new collaborative video series between Vivek Shraya and Christopher Sherman that playfully challenges assumptions about sexual roles and preferences based on appearance and gender.

  • Heroes: A Transformation Film

    The filmmaker asked three friends to tell their stories of ordinary heroism to the camera. Sarah, Olga, and Martha talk about what was the hardest time in their lives, how each got through that time, and what she learned that she can share with others.

  • longer than that, she said

    A meditation on anticipatory loss, this film examines the artists relationship with grief and attempts to ground herself. This film was hand processed in cilantro, mint and tansy at the Film Farm Residency hosted by Phillip Hoffman. Dyed in turmeric and walnut and utilizing freezing film decay techniques.

  • our voices in reverse (portrait of mama)

    My first analog film, filmed from the roof of my mother’s home in west Texas in summer 2013. An experiment in reversing roles, and the precursor to a feature film that came several years later. Edited in camera on Super 8 black and white reversal film.

  • Sister Mother Lover Child

    A house of women adjusts to life in the aftermath of an event unnamed.

  • Amal’s Garden

    Amal and Mustafa are an Iraqi Turkman couple that have shared a long life together in northern Iraq. When Amal decides to renovate their home after a decade of war, Mustafa retreats to the garden, where he encounters the curious gaze of his grandniece and her camera.

  • Jaddoland

    A visit to my mother’s home art studio in Texas prompts a deeper exploration into the meaning of home across generations and landscapes.