Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Green Dream

    In “Green Dream”, Josephine Massarella has infused her vibrant, impressionistic images of nature with the spirit of the goddess Artemis. Evocative and abstract, “Green Dream” relies on a wide range of experimental techniques, including pixilation, optical printing, and manipulated motion to achieve a dreamlike state where the relevance of beauty and the irrelevance of use can be contemplated. Reminiscent of the work of French experimental filmmaker Rose Lawder, “Green Dream” confronts modern overdevelopment with overpowering life forces.

  • Bye Bye Now

    When people wave hello to the person behind the camera in home movies they seem aware of waving hello to a future viewer. Yet, upon viewing, the very gesture (re)presents a recurring good-bye to a fleeting moment. This film is an homage to the man behind the camera in these personal 8mm family archives, my father, who left me this heritage beyond mortality in the traces of past lives. — Louise Bourque Review : “BYE BYE NOW is cruel. A movie traumatized by time, which is the passing of time and all that inhabits it. Movies play into that, their…

  • Searching for Justice

    Searching for Justice is a thought provoking short film by Tasha Brown that delves into the lack of fairness and equality, which is deemed insignificant in many societal norms. Fluid eclectic movements of dance are interwoven with the illuminating original spoken word written by poet Kells James.

  • Next Time Might Be Yes

    Audrey, an anxious college student who’s holding herself back in life confronts her fear of rejection with the help of her therapist. Along with her best friend Sienna, she finally does the things she’s always wanted to: crash a party, ask for a raise. However, there’s one big thing that she’s been too scared to do – telling Sienna that she has feelings for her.

  • Plato’s Cave

    Shadows on the wall and Einstein’s mental musings form a short meditation on the nature of reality. With voice-over quotes from Albert Einstien querying the distiction between the physical and the metaphysical, “Plato’s cave” continues Sternberg’s filmic wonderings about the nature of reality: temporal, ephemeral, tangible, ecanescent, ghostly, haptic, remembered, dreamt, momentary, eternal – the shadow and the light, the quick and the dead.

  • touch

    touch (ing), —(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy “My window tonight casts light out onto the snow, I cast from my eye a glance, a touchless touch…” Jorie Graham, “To 2040” We look, we touch, we make connections sometimes, and sometimes we proceed by groping blindly forward… Note that “touch and “touch : BE/longing” are companion pieces. They may be shown individually; or one after the other; or together simultaneously side by side. One aspect of these works for me was the division of all digital video in one and all…

  • Film About a Father Who

    Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs’ cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory, views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately…

  • Maya at 24

    Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya in 16mm black and white film, at ages 6, 16 and 24. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle – clockwise – as if propelling herself in the same direction as time, forward, on celluloid at 24 frames per second. Conscious of the strange simultaneous temporal landscape that only film can convey, we watch Maya in motion at each distinct age.

  • Fragmentasia

    An exploration of the sense of self, through kaleidoscopic imagery, distorted sounds, and a flurry of colours. Fragmentasia is a self-reflexive short, shot on 16mm and Super8, using animation techniques, prisms, and mirrors, to examine the outward self versus the internal self.

  • The English Teacher

    English teacher Kofi Frimpong is starting classes once again for immigrants at a local language school in Toronto. Before starting the lesson, Taranjit Bains interrupts him to ask where the instructor is. Unsatisfied that Mr. Frimpong is teaching the class, Taranjit does not return. This isn’t the first time Mr. Frimpong’s legitimacy to teach the subject has been questioned, but it eats away at him nonetheless.