Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Still Life

    Unlike the mediated images of current warfare, director Cynthia Madansky examines the effects of the destruction of Occupation through the details of cinematic landscapes and its inherent inhabitants. Through sound and image “Still Life” lays devastation at our doorstep. In its relentless questioning reaffirmed with a unique and unremitting soundtrack by composer Zeena Parkins, “Still Life” forces us to focus on the details of present-day Palestine. Selected screenings: Berlin Film Festival, 2005; Split Festival of New Film, Croatia, 2005; Winner, Youth Award, Festival de Cine de Huesca, Spain, 2005; Human Rights Film Festival, New York, 2005; Museum of Modern Art,…

  • Road Trip

    Late-night musings about the perfect road trip take form in animated photographs and a story that is all road trips combined.

  • i am rubber

    A super 8 home-style movie about a girl’s first driving lesson. Winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at EyeLens 2000; 2nd Place for Post Secondary Experimental at Cascadia Festival of Moving Images; Vancouver, BC;Honourable Mention for Best Experimental at the National Student Film & Video Festival in Regina, SK. Screened at the New York Queer Film Festival; InsideOut Film Festival in Toronto; Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival in Toronto; Images Film Festival in Toronto and the Canadian International Annual Film Festival.

  • Tracy Love

    It’s not really stalking, but it is an obsession. She’s not my girlfriend, but I love her like one. I dare you to watch this and love her too.

  • Neurotic in Black and White

    Made for a program about the number thirteen. Trying to come up with the perfect idea can tie you up in knots.

  • paradise falls, new mexico

    “The desert wind from America’s Southwestern ghost towns blows through the film’s emulsion, stripping away the myth behind the imagery of shoot-outs, outlaws and the lone gunmen from Hollywood Westerns.” – Images Festival, Toronto, 2004 Note: 16mm dual-projection Selected Screenings: Time Inside the Image [3], Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Jan. 31-March 31, 2007

  • Little Life, A

    Hatch, eat, fly, die. The life of “phaenicia sericata,” the green bottle fly. A little life, a short film. No dialogue. Suitable for all ages.

  • Nocturno

    A woman struggles with the emptiness of her life, her emotional landscape reflected in the images around her. Through macro photography of a bread-making process, a seemingly mundane domestic scene is transformed into something sensual and deeply emotional. Selected screenings & awards: CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, 2005; Jury’s Pick, CSIF $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB, 2005; Best Canadian Film or Video Award, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2004; Doug Wandrei Award for Best Lighting Design, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004; Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA, 2003; Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, NS, 2003

  • Red Flag Women

    There are several types of women – some have personality traits that send up red flags. Here are a few examples…

  • Child-Play

    Set in an imaginary nameless space that closely resembles the Caribbean, “Child-Play” is an allegorical Dream Tale paralleling the “innocence” of childhood and the elder phases of existence. Ateesha Mansara, a woman in her late sixties, has lived a life colonized by her own fears about the threat of usurpation of her identity by the Dutchman Spirit of a child molester, whom she had previously met when she was a girl of ten. The spirit of Georgie De Root revisits Ateesha fifty years later in a final attempt to lay “claim” to her soul. Or does he? Available on DVD…