Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Every Other Day of the Week

    “Every Other Day of the Week” wonders, plays with and ponders the where of dykedom today.

  • nostalgia (april 2001 to present)

    “The picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality…” – Noam Chomsky “In a colour fest of broken emulsions, the artist reconvenes a suite of feel good 50s adverts for a better life. A young boy on a bicycle, a blonde smiler on a tricycle, two men at a clothesline, the crisp border of neighborhood lawns appearing as if no one had ever set foot on them. The world is blank and the first line I lay across it is perfect, and then the second marks an intersection and the town is…

  • distance between here and there, the

    Traveling through an invented landscape… the space between here and there. “Battle grounds her travel films not so much in place as in time. ‘the distance between here and there’ is one of her most abstract, rigorous and beautiful engagements with duration… In Battle’s film, it is between here and there, the interval between two points, that marks the experience of travel. The film is able to powerfully evoke that indefinite liminal nowhere, the feeling of being dislocated and in movement.” – Janine Marchessault “An abstract film made by applying colour tape directly onto emulsion and exposing it to light.…

  • migration

    A late summer prairie storm as heard from above… someplace between this atmosphere and the next…

  • Fem Crit: Experimental Works for Educational Environments

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. This collection of works made by women and dedicated to feminist subject matter is political, poetic and provocative. The works explore the complexities of identity and womanhood, addressing often-difficult issues such as domestic violence, body image and poverty, and locating the intersections where language, race, class and gender collide. “Fem Crit, a creative and thought-provoking compilation of seven super 8 and 16mm short films, presents candid and edgy kaleidoscopes of women’s personal experiences and reflections… These films showcase a range of creative narrative and filmmaking styles – useful for class discussion on…

  • You Are Not From Here

    “You Are Not From Here” is a record of a rapidly disappearing vernacular landscape. With an oblique narration about the process of gentrification, the film explores the notions of discovery, belonging and the meanings we project on our environment. Shot in Super 8 and narrated by Philip Horowitz. Selected screenings: Mix New York, 2005; Athens International Film Festival, Ohio, USA, 2005; Antimatter Film and Video Festival, Victoria, BC, 2005

  • Multiple Selves of Hannah Maynard, The

    A glimpse into the unique, eccentric mind of a pioneering Canadian photographer, Hannah Maynard (1834-1918). Born in England, Maynard immigrated with her family to Vancouver Island in 1862, where she set up her own portrait studio. After the sudden death of her youngest daughter, she produced a troubling series of experimental images that reflected her haunted state – an attempt to contact her beloved daughter’s spirit. Considered overly bold and unconventional, Maynard experimented with such techniques as collage, multiple exposure and photo-sculpture. She developed a surreal vision, a world obsessed with children and death, but also the spiritual possibilities of…

  • Amour, l’Amour Shut the Door Por Favor

    “A surrealist delight, a playful series of human melodramas occurring in a single day. Beautifully shot in black and white, ‘L’Amour l’Amour’ features an eccentric cast of characters, archetypes that hint at larger narrative structures… This is the type of film that is both pure visual spectacle and profound philosophical statement, a wonderfully absurd mix of laughter and tears.” – Barbara Goslawski, Take One Magazine

  • One Day I Stood Still

    As a woman stands at a subway stop, she dreams of arresting time and moving through it more gracefully. In this moment of pause, we dive into the whirlwind of her thoughts about both the beauties and horrors of life. “An arrestingly beautiful, stunningly assured journey into the psychic depths of one moment in a woman’s life. By turns ominous, humorous and romantic, it reveals the magic hidden behind the veil of time.” – Toronto International Film Festival, 1996 “Within its allusive narrative strands of feminine fantasy and power, ‘One Day I Stood Still’ is a poetic, romantic and engaging…

  • 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…