Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Moments in Motion (Mouvement Perpetuel)

    Seven short profiles of Canadian choreographers, each powerful voices from the new generation: Natasha Bakht from Ottawa; Byron Chief-Moon from Lethbridge; Day Helesic from Vancouver; Hinda Essadiqi and Audrey Lehouillier, both from Montreal; Malgorzata Nowacka from Toronto; and Sarah Stoker from St. John’s. From diverse cultures and backgrounds, these artists are all cultivating new ground, questioning the established codes and redefining the language of choreography. None shy from taking risks. Zeroing in on the creative process, the film presents their distinct worlds through cinéma-vérité and dance-for-camera sequences. By infiltrating their communities, studios and homes, the camera seizes the essence of…

  • Birthday, The

    “The Birthday” is a short drama about Sapphire, an insecure and socially challenged woman who wants to experience real connections with people, especially her own mother. However, when her mother uses tricks to set her up on a date, the truth is revealed, leaving Sapphire feeling angry and used. Sapphire is faced with the decision to confront her mother, finally realizing that she cannot change anyone no matter what she does, unless that someone is willing to make the change personally.

  • Tell Us The Truth Josephine – A Bitter Immigrant Story

    “Tell Us the Truth Josephine” is a 15-minute experimental drama about a Maltese woman’s search for “home.” Josephine struts across Canada on stilts. And for Josephine to find home she must accept the Truth. And once she does she can come off her stilts and land. Her journey is haunted by fragmented voices and images of her bloodline – bitter immigrant stories.

  • Foodie

    Born into a murky world, jettisoned into flourescence, Foodie is all emotion, all merchandise, all pressure and all pleasure. Foodie waddles through emotional worlds that are hungry and stuffed, cozy-mean, cocooned and exposed. Foodie is the perfect consumer who is simultaneously socially conscious and suspect. Watch Foodie, struggling to stay within boundaries of good and proper, worrying all the time, trying to live forever with too much and not enough.

  • Rubb My Chubb

    If you’re a Torontonian, and hip to the fat revolution, you can’t have missed the recent explosion of the Fat Femme Mafia. Call them what you want. Large and in charge. Larger than life. These women have been hitting the city with the strong words of politics of size. During the inception of the Mafia, we could only gossip with possibilities. Soon there were rumours, whispers, and boisterous claims about the phenomenal event that was to be Chubb Rubb: A Fat Cabaret. This short documentary follows the Fat Femme Mafia, their fat co-conspirators and allies in the days leading up…

  • Cut

    “Cut” is a short animated film about a woman who gets a haircut on lunch and gets more than she bargained for.

  • Mr. Edison’s Ear

    “An inventive exploration of the visceral nature of sound and how we learned to capture and reproduce it over time. Anchored by the discovery of the phonograph by the brilliant-and deaf-inventor Thomas Edison, this visual and conceptual collage of rich archival footage and animation playfully traces the birth of technological reproduction and the beginnings of our modern, audio-drenched world.” – Gisèle Gordon (Hot Docs Canadian Spectrum programmer) Selected Screenings: Canadian Spectrum, HotDocs, 2008; DOK Leipzig Festival, 2008

  • Greg

    Greg Sells has been described as the “Rain Man” of women’s music. Some assume he is autistic. Some think he is a deviant. The female musicians accept him, so why does everyone else want to label him? Featuring: Patrice Pike, Terri Lord, Gretchen Phillips, Ginger Leigh, Sara Hickman, Shelley King and Dayna Kurtz

  • Deadication

    “Images of dead fish are used to illustrate the needless destruction and waste inherent in our technological society.” – Martin Rumsby, Hidden Cinema Tour, 1989 “A product of the Saskatchewan Film Pool, ‘Deadication’ approaches the natural world (fish, specifically) with a fully developed aesthetic sense.” – Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 1988

  • Four Genderfilms

    These four award-winning films by Catherine Crouch explore gender issues from a feminist perspective with humour and sensitivity. Vanilla Lament (6 min. 16mm 1997) Utilizing a mix of live-action, scratch and stop-motion animation techniques, “Vanilla Lament” is a humorous fantasy rendering of a sudden romantic break-up and its aftermath. This hand-crafted film, inspired by the experimental filmmakers of 1960s, won numerous awards, including a silver plaque at the 1998 Chicago International Film Festival. One Small Step (30 min. 16mm 1999) Set in South Carolina on the eve of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon walk, “One Small Step” is a dramatic…