Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Art of Conversation, The

    Jack Stone is bright yellow and fairly cheerful about it, all things considered. He has terminal liver cancer and must spend his last month on earth in a hospital. Family, friends, and total strangers surround Jack’s bedside to engage him in meaningful conversation while Jack’s wife tries to fend off the visiting intruders. The film is a humorous and pointed examination of “conversations” in the face of death.

  • Minomen Harvest

    “Minomen Harvest” is a documentary of the traditional native method of harvesting wild rice which takes place outside the town of Ardock in Ontario. The August harvest begins with cutting the wild rice by hand, then the drying and winowing. No mechanization is used throughout the entire process. The film ends with a sunrise ceremony that honours Mother Earth, the creator of wild rice.

  • Mondo Punk

    In the beginning were the Sex Pistols. All the ikons of the Punk Movement and more. Anarchistic anti-art calculated to offend. “It’s violent… it scared the shit out of me a couple of times.” – Freddy Pompeii, The Viletones

  • Moscow Summer

    “Moscow Summer” is a street-level portrait of Moscow and its people. This lyrical documentary interweaves compelling visual sequences with impromptu interviews to create a rich and realistic portrait of the city. While Moscow’s political and social turmoil form an undercurrent in the film, ultimately “Moscow Summer” is a film about love and humanity – and those are the qualities with which it has been made.

  • Multiple Choice

    “Multiple Choice” uses offbeat humour to explore the theme of poverty in the consumer society. The film tells the story of Meg Harris, a compulsive shopper who is coming to grips with her high-consumption lifestyle.

  • My Cunt

    What do Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson Lee, and your grandmother have in common? A litany of cunts.

  • My Own Obsession

    “My Own Obsession” is a film interested in the implications of identity and the archeology of those mental layers that represent our identities. It is a journey through the identity of an Armenian-Canadian woman during a specific period, which is documented through interviews with various individuals about their encounters and experiences with the protagonist. The line between documentary and fiction is blurred. The cinematic impact unfolds into poetic visual metaphors, which weave themselves throughout the film. It is a film which explores the relationship of the viewer to the film. An unknown archivist/filmmaker structures the cinematic experience through the guise…

  • My Quills Click When I Walk

    The porcupine and the wolf converse in a forest underwood where light literally strobes through the trees. The porcupine delights in the clicks of her quills when she walks. When the wolf attempts to compete, she cleverly works him into a duet and all is well until the two are perturbed by a bee. An animated film which takes a subtle look at sources of aggression.

  • My Withered Tomato Friend

    “My Withered Tomato Friend” is a haunting, experimental narrative that merges the roaming voice of a battered wife with popular images of women to question the conventional ideology of representation and the denial of domestic violence. Alternating between provocative poetry and submissive prose, the voice echoes terrifying thoughts of the abused woman while gradually deconstructing – and reconstructing- manipulated found footage. “Absolutely exhilarating to watch, this is the hard edge of feminist experimental cinema.” – Piers Handling, Director, Toronto International Film Festival One Star Award, Canadian International Amateur Film Festival, 1992

  • Name Change: A California Film

    Barbara Martineau became Sara Halprin and made this film to mark the change.