Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Tell Me about SunTea

    Tell Me about SunTea (Super 8, Digital Video, Colour, Stereo Sound, 6 minutes and 47 seconds) Tell Me about SunTea builds a conversational and spatial ecosystem, weaving together the disparate spaces of the Toronto Islands and Covington, Texas. The film considers the life cycles of plants and animals, as discussed by the filmmaker’s Gram and as remembered by the filmmaker. Conversational obstacles and a failed interview attempt are re-imagined as off-road opportunities. The repeated voice over reveals changes in cadence and content that point to the fragile intimacy held in language and storytelling. “Considering different forms of mechanical and organic…

  • Don’t Forget The Water

    A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge. 

  • Grandpa’s Fingers

    A grandfather recounts a story to his two young granddaughters, explaining what happened to his fingers. A short fable about family, storytelling, and cannibalism that gives new meaning to the phrase “finger food.”

  • Blossom

    Blossom is an abstract animated diary by Jesi Jordan, drawn over the course of 4 years. Drawn and presented in chronological order and created with over 11,000 pencil drawings on paper.

  • Earth, Take Me With You !

    A return to the earth

  • Let Love Be Love In Me

    Inhaling love and submersing into peace, created in collaboration with Mother Earth.

  • Bug Bite

    A bug bite leaves us frozen in a surrender, looking back at nature, and transmitting our human emotion back into the belly of the earth.

  • Water Break

    Exploring fertility in simbiosis with Mother Earth.

  • Personal Growth

    A short venture into personal growth, the process of surrendering and the ability to release.

  • Moun an ba la: French Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto

    MOUN AN BA LA: French Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto is an ode to bicultural identity and an exploration of the collective memory of the French Antilles community in Toronto through the slice of life of an Afro-French & Canadian woman of Martiniquan heritage. Hybrid in its form, the film, which sits at the junction of direct cinema and poetic documentary, explores the question: “To which culture do I belong?” as it takes a look at the complexity of bicultural Afro-French & Caribbean identity. In the film, we witness an intimate conversation between a francophone Toronto-based Paris-born mother-to-be of Martiniquan heritage…