Film Categories: Work by Women

  • The Passion of Rita Camilleri

    “The Passion of Rita Camilleri” is a 24- minute cinematic vision seen through a child’s eyes. Rita is eight years old, a Maltese Canadian and a Roman Catholic. She is able to see Jesus fly, her sister’s brassiere turn into wings, and a local mutt become a demonic beast. Lonely and insecure, she becomes even more lonely when her best friend Diane dies in a house fire. During and after the funeral, Rita is filled with awe and questions until Diane appears at her window as an angel. Rita is still alone but not as lonely. With the reassurance of…

  • Move Click Move

    Deanna Morse has produced over thirty films and videos since the early 1970s. This DVD is an interactive journey through her work, featuring 36 short animated and experimental works and hundreds of production stills. “MOVE CLICK MOVE is not only a terrific teaching/learning tool, it is also a tribute to the visual arts” – Mike Allore, Michigan VUE). For Sale Only. INTRODUCTION: HOW ANIMATION WORKS, 2001 move click move (2:13) SAMPLE THE FILMS About this DVD (6:59) 27 “making of” stills FUN SHORTS! MONKEY’S T-SHIRT, 1990 Embedded figures puzzle (1:31) 8 “making of” stills NIGHT SOUNDS, 1991 Scared of the…

  • Benediction

    A filmmaker’s exploration of fleeting existence. Filtered through a personal story, “Benediction” is a last attempt to pay homage to those things left and leaving. When faced with the realization of her grandfather’s mortality, a young filmmaker journeys to find meaning in the wake of absence and loss. Is she trying to hold on to something that was never there? Winner of the Norman McLaren Prize at the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal. Winner of the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography in a Canadian Short at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2006. Screened at the Toronto International…

  • Timbre

    “Timbre” is a short film exploring sensory perception within an urban environment. The public space of the city is deconstructed into the private experiences of four women and their unique connections made between sight and sound.

  • Surrender

    Stop! In the name of love where did our love go? My world is empty without you – you are everything and everything is you. You keep me hanging on upside down. Remember me? It’s my turn. I’m still waiting. I’m gonna make you love me. I’m coming out. I hear a symphony. Doobedood’ndoobe, doobedood’ndoobe, doobedood’ndoo. A film about the pressures of modern love.

  • Broken

    This short film stars Tara Spencer Nairn (New Waterford Girl, Corner Gas etc.) as Allie. Allie is an independent girl who was in a relationship that cut too deep into her world. She finds herself in unfamiliar emotional territory and reacts by running away. Danny (Benjamin Rouse) her ex, can’t understand why all has fallen apart. He has also found himself in unfamiliar emotional territory but is driven to fight through this landscape regardless of the danger he faces within himself. Danny is lost in the chaos of love retracted and in this moment of desperation he is willing to…

  • What Remains Human

    When the ashes of her long-estranged father show up in the mail, Rebecca enlists the help of her siblings to find a suitable dumpsite for his sooty cremains. This black comedy, shot in the dead of winter in Saskatchewan, is an unusual look at the loss of rites of passages in our secular culture. The film’s quiet metaphor – how parental behavior leaves its smudgy mark on us all despite our most frantic efforts to rid ourselves of the legacy – creates a purposeful and layered theme not typically found in comedic films “What Remains Human is a queer absurdist…

  • Walk For Walk

    Lockhart’s unparalleled understanding of the fantastic and grotesque combined with her completely original aesthetic sensibilities create and inhabit an animated landscape where a seemingly endless parade of kooky little creatures walk themselves straight into trouble, but always find a way out. Enter the surreal, ever-changing world of “Walk for Walk”, a colourful, tripped-out animated landscape filled with catchy songs, eyeball kicks, goofball characters, and a great variety of babies: Warm Baby! Mister Baby! Rich Baby! And more! Created using over 1000 hand-painted paper cutouts, puppets and backgrounds. Selected screenings: Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, ON, 2006; Rendezvous with Madness…

  • Happy Birthday Hannah

    An irreverent look at diapers and dolls, ‘Happy Birthday Hannah’ is a delightfully funny animated short about Suzy, a rag doll who celebrates her owner’s birthday by painting her room.

  • Der Fus Tort

    A 21st-century take on the tower of Babel story, this zany animated tale combines modern Yiddish storytelling with the hottest of new media. From angel’s foot cake to angels’ cheese cake, this delicious serving of new Yiddish film comes complete with a high fat, double, double ending. “Whimsical drawings and Yiddish humor animate this charming tale. ‘Der Fus Tort’ is a treat for all ages.” – Susan Alper, Director Montreal Jewish Film Festival Yiddish /w English subtitles