Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Play, She Said

    A look at the effects of an eccentric and loving mother on a mind warped from the womb.

  • Slickster Fixter

    A noodle-legged hero plucks distressed females out of otherwise boring predicaments.

  • Skinned

    The wanton moment in which a young boy recognizes he is no longer infallible.

  • Pink Eyed Pet

    Sometimes topical treatments aren’t enough to cure love’s infections.

  • Lesson, The

    A close look at the hilarious representation of language inspired by the absurd, existentialist writings of Eugene Ionesco.

  • Deutschland

    “Bowen returns with a multi-screen fairytale about a Haunted Girl and her Cousin. ‘Deutschland’, like her previous ‘sadomasochism,’ strains cinema through language, asking that we read along with a woman recalling her German roots while a four-play of home movies flicker by underneath her grave. The English text in the present is both summary and benediction (‘The war is over’), understanding that memory turns the people of our lives into characters, and all the characters are us.” – Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2000

  • Thin Bleeding Walls

    Recounting the painful memory of a mother with a problem and a brother’s means of coping.

  • Cinema and Visual Pleasure

    The film is constructed upon a short loop, extracted from an old 8mm burlesque film depicting a belly dancer moving against a black background. Her dance consists of little more than a series of languid, circular gestures. Her hips, elbows, wrists and stomach perpetuate endless circles each within their own orbits of motion. The image is black and white, scratched and grainy, and further complicated by the orange bubbles of nitrate decay that speckle the emulsion’s surface. The loop is expanded across the film’s duration through repetition and multiple superimpositions. The film is an exercise in the plastic properties of…

  • Shadowy Encounters

    “An extraordinarily provocative film which draws the viewer in with its strange mesmerizing beauty.” – Brothers Quay The film “Shadowy Encounters” is an homage to the work of the Quay Brothers. The film is a synthesis of collaged moving and still images taken directly from the Quay Brothers’ 35mm films and recontextualized in order to metaphorically and responsively capture and reframe the Quay’s films’ qualities. The resultant richly textured and layered imagery delves the labyrinthine and secret realms of the Quay Brothers’ world. In itself, “Shadowy Encounters” is a complete, compelling, mythic and painstaking transcription of an inner journey. It…

  • No You Cyant Touch It!

    Shot in black-and-white and sepia tones, “No You Cyant Touch It!” incorporates an understanding of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality as it deals with Black women’s favourite obsession – hair – from an interesting perspective. The film’s creatrix and subject examines the link between her locks, her Black, queer identity, and other people’s understanding/assumptions of who she is and where she “belongs.” The stark tones and political subject matter are mediated by Rhizome Syndrigast Coelacanth Flourishing’s lyrical poetics.