Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Type O

    “Type O” explores a metaphorical comparison between blood and words. Combining stop-motion animation and experimental film techniques, the film inhabits a realm where the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred. In an attempt to defeat her writer’s block, the central character engages in a physical struggle with her typewriter. A finger is caught by the random keying, drawing blood. With the first drop of blood split, words bubble to the surface and the writer’s block begins to clear. Just as blood is life-sustaining fluid, words are the writer’s lifeline. The organic qualities of blood and words are realized visually…

  • Land Slide

    “Land Slide” is a collage of Super 8 footage and found sounds merged through time and space in an exploration of colour and light, consciousness and imagination. An ambiguous trance rhythm moves sound and image freely across the screen, inviting viewer to play a part in the daydream.

  • Awake at Dawn

    “Awake at Dawn” mingles narrative, experimental and animation techniques to enter the subconscious of a man who decides to abandon sleep in an attempt to refine his mind, body and spirit. Over the course of several sleepless nights the character slips further away from his immediate reality. In this misguided quest for fulfillment, the character alienates what is really important to him: the woman he loves, who in facing emotional abandonment leaves him in an ultimately sobering state of sleeplessness.

  • Felicity’s View

    “Felicity’s View” is a film about two aging people who find their lives transformed by the rekindling of romantic desire. Felicity’s lonely world is suddenly changed by the arrival of an attractive bird-watcher in the park across the street from her balcony. After glimpsing Felicity through his binoculars, he returns repeatedly to the park to await her next appearance. As their mutual fascination grows, an erotic resonance begins to build.

  • Lez Be Friends

    After making a short film about her best friend Abbey’s struggle to accept her sexual orientation, Lily is assumed to be the true subject of the film. While Abbey, the film’s star, becomes a legend in the lesbian community, Lily is trapped in a netherworld between hetrosexuality and homosexuality, continually trying to set the record straight.

  • lesbianfilm

    “lesbianfilm” is a hilarious performative documentary (mockumentary) that puts the spotlight on all the hype, PR, collaboration, love and bickering that goes into the making of an independent feature film. In the great homosexual tradition, “lesbianfilm” employs camp and humour to achieve a political aim. With tape rolling, the lesbianfilm collective askes the question: “Do you support lesbianfilm?” At the end of the day, the group has managed to debunk identity politics, pitch the festival programmers, and secure numerous donations from unsuspecting patrons of the arts – of props, wardrobe, a location and various in-kind service for the fictional project.…

  • Machine Machine Machine Machine

    Consumed by toaster experiments and the lure of the switching yard, a pale mad scientist (Julian Doucet) dresses up like a slightly automated Hugo Ball to enter the late winter landscape and bear witness to man’s inhumanity to machines.

  • Passing Through

    “Passing Through” is haunted by a song about love and marriage that can’t be fully recalled – or completely forgotten. In this beautifully hand-processed film nothing seems to fit properly. The streets of a small, Ontario town become associative paths for memory when desire stretches the seams of expectation.

  • Still Here

    Made for the filmmaker’s uncle, a painter and a gay man who died violently in 2001, this silent, hand-processed film marks an enduring presence with bold brush strokes. When the body is absent the shadows remain. “Still Here” consists of a series of spontaneous, single-take performances that have been edited in-camera. It is at once a eulogy and an act of defiance against the crime that ended Davis Buller’s life.

  • Busk

    Life is hard when you live on Gerrard … especially when you’re a white French-Canadian rapper trying to make it on the streets of Toronto. “Busk” is a fish-out-of-water comedy about a guy with a dream who doesn’t give up even when his whole ‘hood is against him. “Busk” is based on a skit performed by the comedy troupe Sweet Potato. Eric Marier acted out his nerdy white rapper character for filmmaker Paula Tiberius over wine one evening, and she wrote the script the next day. Eric added his own raps, and they geard up to shoot the film four…