Film Categories: Work by Women

  • 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.

  • gestures toward Plant Vision

    A filmic meditation inviting consideration of perception in vegetal beings. Vision is somatic, of the body. In humans, vision is a dominant sense for most people and can feel indistinguishable from the mind when thoughts, judgements, and reactions are unconsciously triggered through visual experiences. Together, vision and mind can block deeper understandings of phenomena and lead to misinformed actions if intentionally looking beyond the illusory surface of things is not pursued. When we consciously imagine how plants might perceive in ways similar to and different than our own, humans extend beyond anthropocentric perception and behaviour to make space for empathetic…

  • 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…

  • Applying and Removing

    Applying: a nude woman is painted completely black. Attention concentrated on the process of going from white to black. Removing: she washes herself off in the bathtub, and goes from black to grey to white. Seemingly austere, the film is resonant on many levels, and each viewer brings to it his/her own associations.

  • landing

    Shot at Bate Island in Ottawa, landing is made from hand-processed B&W 16 mm film hand-coloured with organic and photochemical tones, video and found sound. landing examines moments of respite in between flight and movement.

  • souvenir

    souvenir is made from hand-processed B&W 16 mm film hand-coloured with photochemical toners, and incorporates found sound. souvenir examines the evanescence of memory and the process of forgetting.

  • Before Me

    An incomplete family story leads the filmmaker on a quest to find her mother in the British archives. The discovery of a photograph unearths a story of upheaval, desolation, and ultimately, transformation. A lament for a mother whose life was lost, then found, in the dust of the archive.

  • Quack Quack

    Quack Quack is a moving image collage that utilizes magazine cut-outs from porn magazines and found footage. Multiple analogue techniques such as contact printing, optical printing, mordançage, mono-flex, chromo-flex, and hand processing help convey the over-stimulation of media; reverting an intangible concept into a tactile form. These images meshed together allude to the negative effects of media fetishization that feed into incel culture and violence against women.