Film Categories: Work by Women

  • A Thousand Little Trees of Blood

    Stella and Guilio are on one of their many, stressful dates, when a small catalyst creates a huge issue.

  • Cod Story

    This is a case study of the Canadian cod fisheries collapse of 1992. It investigates what the future of natural resource management holds, and what we can learn from our past mistakes.

  • lessons on flight

    Shot on B&W 16 mm film, eco-processed with olives and hand coloured on site in rural Chile, lessons on flight examines the flight patterns of the green-backed firecrown hummingbird. lessons on flight is an exercise in site-based eco processing, where the film’s shooting site also provided the materials for processing. The film was shot in rural Chile, at the site of the filmmaker’s father’s childhood home, and was developed with olives freshly picked in the yard. The oil from the olives left a cast on the film that interacted with food colouring placed on the film following fixing, leaving unique…

  • The Sound of dust from Asteroids and Comets, that have been torn apart by the Sun’s gravity

    The Sound of dust from Asteroids and Comets, that have been torn apart by the Sun’s gravity Animated(2023 04:53), super 8 film, painted by hand with ink direct on the celluloid. on a super 8 film material that “failed” when I developed it by hand. The sound collage consists of parts of a material from Nasa, where they have tried to illustrate how different sounds could sound in space if there were sound waves there.

  • Where the snow-fed Rio del Llano met the edge of the desert

    Where the snow-fed Rio del Llano met the edge of the desert(2023 Length: 04:56 min), is a site specific film, in 2019 I visited the geographical location, Pear blossom Highway in California which is near the Antelope Valley (the armpit of California). A place also known as The Socialist Ruins. Here, Job Harriman, a socialist lawyer who ran for Vice President of the United States, Governor of California and Mayor of Los Angeles, founded in 1914 the cooperative colony – Llano del Rio which means plain by the river and the colony flourished for four years between 1914 to 1918.…

  • Peace

    Peace, takes its starting point from a super 8 found footage film material, and is a collaboration between me and Lisa Marr. I asked Lisa to read the word peace in 18 different languages; English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Hindi, Urdu. Sound/Voice: Lisa Marr

  • Video Art on the Edge

    “Video Art on the Edge” explores the creative potential of videotape degradation through manipulating documentation of an historical video installation exhibition from The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1984), turning the material failure of video into an abstract, generative force. Video is a medium with a long but limited lifespan. Although the primary components of a legible image and audio endure for many years, the process of playback and reproduction inevitably produces degradation of videotape’s material substrate, producing distortions, particularly at the bottom edge of the image, upon playback. “Video Art on the Edge” explores what may be made of examining…

  • xīn nī 廖芯妮

    xīn nī 廖芯妮 (“understanding you”) is an intimate auto-ethnographic portrait expressed through dance and digital technologies. Liaw engages in intergenerational conversations with her family and community to transform the linguistic divide between her Chinese name and its Hakka translation into a space for healing. Drawing on themes of decolonizing queerness to emphasize self-love and self-curiosity, the work explores both physical and technological attachments. Bodies made up of 3D-rendered cultural objects hold space for the stories of Liaw’s elders, while expanding the growing web of her ancestral knowledge. 

  • Hypnagogia

    In the threshold between sleep and wake, hallucinations and moments of paralysis take hold. Hypnagogia is an exercise in eco-processing, with different 16 mm B&W film stocks processed with multiple different organic material, including apples, avocado peel, coffee, grapes, peaches, pomegranate and wine.

  • 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).