Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Sea of Souls

    This film is about a personal shamanic journey. This is also a haunting visual poem. Two souls in one world, one breath, one life, one realm. The underwater realm becomes the environment where this merging of souls takes place. The dance emulates the movement of water. Dancer Penny Couchie moves like the ocean. She becomes the ocean and the life within it. According to the Haida legend, the undersea realm is where human souls resort after death. Using this statement as a concept, exploration of the human soul is investigated. We will be bridged together, into one living being, yet…

  • Urge

    A young woman has to pee. Due to various circumstances and her own inability to admit it, she holds it in. When the need becomes too unbearable, she takes matters into her own hands – with unexpected results.

  • Relative Motion

    “Relative Motion” is a series of designs scratched on already processed film, allowing the natural colour of the film to reveal itself. Paint is also added to enhance this state. The designs are expressions of emotions and thoughts which are brought to a roar with sound created to accompany the movements of the scratches.

  • Bridal Shower, The

    A painfully funny, painfully realistic enactment of one of the most bizarre social customs ever to have evolved as the “most wonderful day” in any girl’s life. Surely nobody seeing this film can ever attend a bridal shower again. Or maybe the custom will have a glorious revival based solely on its strength.

  • Wilma’s Sacrifice

    This film tells the tale of young Wilma’s (Kat Lanteigne) romantic escapades with Christine (Jen Wilson) a woman from the “outside” world. Surrealistically set in the 1950s, the town of Eden is a place where the air is haunted with silence. Wilma has to choose whether to redeem herself in the eyes of her religiously obsessed brother James (Mar Andersons), her neurotic chain-smoking Mother (Carole McCormick), and her opprobrious Father (David Fredericks), or escape Eden, a place where one can never feel quite clean enough.

  • Difference, La

    A wild animation about a wild imagination. In a bar, a place of mystic scenes, Kim is dreaming of his wish of being a woman. His dreams turn into reality through the help of a bartender who is not as he seems to be. This is a story about gender confusion and confusion of transexuality and transvestitsm.

  • Bridges-Go-Round

    Manhattan becomes a maypole as its bridges execute a carefree but magical dance. There are two versions of the film on the reel, one with an electronic soundtrack by Louis and Bebe Barron, and one with music by Ted Macero and his group. The director feels that both should be seen, the electronic-sound version first because that sound vitally alters the responses of the viewer.

  • Licked

    A go-go-get-it girl looks for love in the fine features of many a plate, only to end up falling face first into her one true dish.

  • Grasp

    A gang of girlfriends plays together. Through their games one wonders when we stop feeling what we play at and start becoming a reflection of what others have told us to feel, particularly in a landscape where people seem to conjure up the deepest of emotions for the simplest of objects.

  • Snap

    A collection of pictures and old autograph-book rhymes capture a particular glance at a life.