Film Categories: Work about Women

  • fuck

    A short solo film made in quarantine, “fuck” is part silent meditation, part protest, part magic spell for a better world.

  • Glimpses of My Mother in the Garden

    Through a rapid montage of mirror reflected images, I introduce my 72-year-old Mother. Sitting in a flower garden, putting on lipstick, my Mother watches the world quickly go by. (GM)

  • The Butch and the Baby Daddy

    Alex (short for Alejandra) has wanted to have a baby almost as long as she can remember. But how is a trans/butch lesbian supposed to get sperm? When she considers asking Mateo, a close gay friend of hers, Alex is forced to investigate what she really values. This frank and funny animated short brings home the challenges, humour, and desire of this bittersweet journey. Based on a memoir by co-director Karleen Pendleton Jiménez.

  • I (heart) Jack Lalanne: A Cartoon Memoir

    This is an animated documentary film structured around the life and legend of Jack LaLanne as it explores my personal experiences growing up female and gay in 1960s-70s America. I was a serious athlete during my early and young adult years, thus the film also delves into issues of self-identity, societal expectations, and the effects of aging on the human body. “I (heart) Jack LaLanne: A Cartoon Memoir” uses classic and computer-based animation techniques that serve as the visuals to voiceover storytelling. Original drawings combine with rotoscoped footage, composited archival video clips float inside retro televisions, while stop-motion vitamins march…

  • Marble presents “IT’S MY HOUSE”

    Made in the style of a karaoke music video, this is part homage to Diana Ross’s 1979 single “It’s My House,” and part exploration of the messes and pleasures of having and sharing a “space” to call our own. Intertwined with the characteristic lyric titles of karaoke videos is a collection of scenes filmed on Super 8 where two people and a puppet move in and out of the frame, caught in the act of something… Part consciousness-raising, part illicit concoction, part inventory of liquids, text fragments and scattered objects, these scenes accompany such lyrics as “there’s my chair /…

  • Lavender: A Lesbian Love Story

    By accepting a lavender marriage proposal, Joy risks her secret relationship, forcing her to choose between appeasing her family and true love.

  • An Open Conversation

    “An Open Conversation” is a short story about the effects of pregnancy loss. In this introspective narrative, Idalina shares her own story of miscarriage and explores what her losses have meant to her. Fueled by the shame and lack of support she encountered she sets out to support others who have suffered through pregnancy loss and make it an open conversation.

  • Good Citizen: Betty Baker

    ‘Good Citizen: Betty Baker’ follows a civic-minded housewife as she tracks the missing Prince Phillip. This madcap chase takes our heroine Betty from our neighbour’s trash, to a strangely exciting all-girls bar, to the arms of a handsome lady golfer. Cherry pie never looked so good.

  • Women of Resilience

    Women who have survived war, abuse, displacement and loss share their paths to resilience. 4 stories. 1 central thread – relationship makes us resilient. This documentary celebrates resilience in older women, who have lived through trauma and healed. The film features 4 older women who have gone through abuse, wars, prejudices and trauma, and they healed through relationship. The thesis is that human beings are designed to heal, and trauma interrupts that design. Secure attachment -a relationship within which someone feels loved, seen and valued- can repair the break and restore the healing design of the human brain and body.…

  • Arrival 1, Arrival 2

    This experimental essay film springs from the final days of December 2020 when I moved from Chicago to Toronto. The film documents my move and then continues on alternate paths, weaving through the liminal spaces of borders, sickness, interpellation, and dreams. Content Note: This film contains extended discussions about fatphobia and disordered eating. Specifically, this film contains descriptions of food restriction, idealization of thinness, and intense emotional and physical pain after eating. After 11:41 there is no direct discussion of disordered eating. Flashing lights throughout. Loud noises throughout.