Film Categories: art & artists

  • Sluice

    It is a wooden silver-retrieving sluice – thus light-catch awash with something like “cheek and jowl clippings of Argentine bulls” (as Hollis Frampton reminds us) and many chemical residues of earth. My mind has grown TREE out of the forest of it all. (SB)

  • Snow Search

    “Snow Search” finds four performers searching for each other, each carrying one quarter of a photographic portrait of Michael Snow. A lyrical exploration through the city and an homage to Michael Snow.

  • Beauborg Boogie Woogie

    Rimmer takes a quick, playful romp through the Beaubourg’s paintings, twisting and bending their reflections to his own light rhythms.

  • rameau

    A documentary work which takes an in-depth look at the full range of Michael Snow’s work, including his painting, photography, music, sculpture, and filmmaking. Through conversations with Snow, and interviews with other members of Canada’s cultural community, the viewer is given an understanding of his challenging art. The film is designed in such a way as to give the uninitiated viewer a lasting introduction to Snow’s work and an understanding of our national artistic heritage.

  • So Is This

    This film is filmed text. The film reads: “This is the title of this film. So is this.” This film is an in between the author and you. It is communal reading. Within my work it could be described as a child of “One Second in Montreal” and “Rameau’s Nephew.” “A delightful film, full of humour and sentience, it is also an odd film: a text-film, a silent black-and-white talky in colour, a self-reflexive document and a fictive construct, a non-movie that paradoxically fulfills and subverts the implications in the titles of such books as ‘The Language of Cinema’ and…

  • Solidarity

    A film on the Dare strike of the early 1970s. Hundreds of feet and legs, milling, marching and picketing with the word “solidarity” superimposed on the screen. The soundtrack is an organizer’s speech on the labour situation. Like her films “Rat Life and Diet in North America,” “Pierre Vallieres” and “Reason Over Passion,” “Solidarity” combines a political awareness, an aesthetic viewpoint and a sense of humour unique in Wieland’s work. Image description: Plain black laced shoes and bare or white-stockinged ankles of a person standing on green grass, a metal-tipped umbrella at their side. White text superimposed over the middle…

  • Sowesto

    A collection of footage from my friends or by my friends and me. It is amazing the number of events recorded by various means around London. “Sowesto” contains the opening of Region Gallery, The First Canadian Happening, Barbara Ann Scott in St. Marys, Nihilist events, etc. (GC)

  • Standard Time

    “In Snow’s ‘Standard Time’ a waist-high camera shuttles back and forth, goes up and down, picking up small, elegantly-lighted square effects around a living room very much like its owner: ordered but not prissy. A joyously spiritual little film, it contains both his singular stoicism and the germinal ideas of his other films, each one like a thesis, proposing a particular relationship between image, time and space.” – Manny Farber, Art Forum

  • Standing Apart

    For over seventy-five years, the Venice Biennale has been regarded as the most important international art exhibition. Countries all over the world send their best artists to the Biennale in the hope that they will receive international acclaim and recognition. In 1971, the two artists chosen to represent Canada were Gershon Iskowitz, a painter, and Walter Redinger, a sculptor. This is a lyrical and philosophical film showing their response to the aging city of Venice and to having their works exhibited at the Biennale.

  • AIDE MÉMOIRE – ein schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll | AIDE MÉMOIRE – Gay Document For Remembering

    A private discourse between photographer Jurgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup; a personal investigation into how to deal with images of life and death.