Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Scheme

    “‘Scheme’ is composed of photographs, text and drawings from my son’s creative play and school work. Many of the images are photographs he shot with a child’s Crayola 110 camera, which I feel capture some of the essence of movement and the transcience of childhood. The video is framed by ideas of how we are socialized to make patterns and connections to the world through the use of language. It explores this patterning through the relationship between the photographic image and a dialogue between my son & I.” – Tracy German

  • Memo to Pic Desk

    An idiosyncratic look at staging in news photography, using materials from the archives of a Toronto daily. Moral codes, delinquency and autonomy are pulled into an altered coherence, as vintage photos are examined next to their type-written paper trail. Financial assistance provided by the Ontario Arts Council. Selected screenings & awards: Best Experimental Short Film, Lusanne Underground Film Festival, 2007; Toronto International Film Festival, 2006; Jury’s Choice Award, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 2007; San Francisco International Film Festival, 2007; Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2007; Big Muddy Film Festival, 2007

  • fall storm (california 2003)

    Sitting in a quiet room; listening to a storm out the window.

  • Crossing the Line

    They are preparing for the big one – the Coming Out Ball. And just how far will they go? This short is a turn-of-the-century crime story exploring the outer limits of the debutant psyche.

  • Butch or Consequences

    Louise, an old-school butch, falls in love with a pretend TV lesbian and in her desperate need to be with her she participates in a fictional make-over show, Inside Out: Deviant Dyke to Diva. Louise, reveals her new marriage approved look to her local dyke march when suddenly it all starts to go wrong, or, some would say, it all gets right.

  • I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-bye

    Everyday movement, woven into a dance of memory and loss. Selected Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2007; Seattle International Film Festival, 2007

  • Doctor’s Daughter or The Secret and the Lie, The

    “The Doctor’s Daughter or The Secret and the Lie” is the docu-dramatization of the beginning and the end of a six-year relationship between two young women. The film moves back and forth between Trinidad in 1991 and Toronto in 1996. Nicki (Janine Fung) visits her friend Regan (Gillian Frise) in Trinidad. Nicki falls in love with Regan but Regan is engaged to Howard (Richard Bolai). Nicki and Regan sleep together anyway. Six years later Regan returns to Toronto and moves in with Nicki. That’s when it gets hard to tell whose life is a lie and who’s living the lie.…

  • sonntag morgen (sunday morning)

    “sonntag morgen” tells the story of a split up – of two women, two lovers. A song of the same title provides the pace, the lyrics, the dialogue.

  • toronto mov.

    Movements from just one point of view, movements within one setting, movements against a ubiquitous background: this is what this short film is documenting.

  • Fugue

    Inspired by musical and psychological definitions, “Fugue” examines the dark flight from identity and environment. Hand-processing and the juxtaposition of positive and negative footage depict the journey of a woman as she shifts between being black or white and widow or bride. Selected screenings: Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005; Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, USA, 2005; London Film Festival, London, UK, 2005