Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Waving

    “Waving” is a short film exploring the cyclical rituals of life, death and the family. A personal narrative chronicles the relationship between the author and her grandmother. Visual imagery works to create a strong metaphor, suggestive of the overwhelming, consuming power of grief.

  • Black Earth

    A film-essay on the earth’s body, “Black Earth” follows a woman’s journey through time and space. The film’s images and utterances and sounds poetically resonate a world as woman, a woman suffering the fate of humanity. “Black Earth” was filmed on location in India.

  • We’re Talking Vulva

    A five-foot, six-inch rappin’ vulva, in an unexpected parody of the music video genre, leads the viewer on a complete description of female genitalia.

  • What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said

    What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said uses an imaginative and lyrical narrative to interweave three stories: The Canadian Legend of Marguerite de Roberval; the daily life of an unknown pioneer woman; and the versions of these histories as presented by a museum tour guide. In representing what has been lost, What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said seeks to affirm a place in history for women and acknowledges the act of the imagination in the mediation of the past. What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said is produced and directed…

  • When the Mind Hears

    “When the Mind Hears” is part of an ongoing body of work in both photography and film. This work was motivated by the challenges I face in communicating to my daughter who is deaf. It stems from my observation and my own experiences of growing up different. This black-and-white film is an abstract response to visual memory and sensory development. (AH) “…with distance, respect and the unromantic gaze, children are observed: they run with an unshakable sense that the earth will support them. Underwater shots of a swan swimming, webbed feet pushing against the water moving it aside to propel…

  • When Women Are Crazy

    Three women spend a summer’s afternoon in a garden overshadowed by a convent and the towers of the Roman Catholic Basilica. Six words – Truth, Beauty, Strange, Charmed, Up and Down – provide the basis for visual and poetic metaphors about sex, death and crazy women.

  • Where

    “Where” is a film carved from a period of intense personal introspection. Images incessantly search for roots, reverberate into the past, present, and future, inquiring into the mysterious, stirring perceptions, and discover where there are more questions than answers.

  • Where Does Mess Come From?

    “A hybrid of narrative and performance, film and video that uses a baroque train trip to suggest the eruption of chaos behind every stray desire. Loose enigma gets its due here, but it is when the tape is plainest – as in a sequence where a woman reveals fantasies of men that approach ‘Cosmo’ dimensions – that things get most fascinating.” – Cameron Bailey, NOW “Where Does Mess Come From?” is a story of chaos in its most pedestrian form. The constant breakdown of order in the universe is also the constant breakdown of order in our lives. The need…

  • X

    A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman’s despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from women’s pain to a holistic, self-healing naming ritual.

  • Yearbook

    The length of a pop song, because it’s about the insidious way pop music begins to describe the moments of four lives. Romping through high school in four kilts and kisses, these girls truncate a feature film into the length of a pop song. Starring Janine Fung, Louise Liliefeldt, Nicole Pena and Christina Zeidler.