Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Rock

    Rocker dude takes us on a tour of the prestigious sites of his past gigs, including the local post office, hair cutting salon, and grocery store.

  • Angela

    After she falls unconscious while exploring alone in a forest, concern for young Angela’s safety causes family conflict.

  • Missing

    A young boy uses creative tactics to gain the attention of his busy family.

  • Between the Lines

    The story of four children who use their imagination to overcome the people that are trying to crush their creative spirits. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

  • my I’s

    “my I’s” is a visual journey through time, space, and memories of the filmmaker from her childhood to the present. Not parting with her Super 8 camera for four years, she accumulated a variety of images from different parts of the world and from different times of the year. She then combined these images with home movie footage of herself and her mother. Pruska-Oldenhof’s childhood memories of Sunday afternoon walks with her mother – to a park, a field or a castle – and seeing the world through her mother’s eyes has shaped her mind and even her filmic eye.…

  • Bridging the Gap

    An evolution on the Pied Piper theme. The child who was left behind in the original story is now able to keep up due to the effort and bravery on his part and the enlightened concern on the part of others. Produced for the United Nations’ Year of the Disabled.

  • Passengers

    Evocative, passionate and poetic, this film is a compelling and moving exploration of the relationship between a daughter and her father as she matures from childhood to adulthood. On the day of his funeral, she draws on the legacy of his love, understanding, and compassion, and comes to term with her sexual identity.

  • Brief Life, A

    “A Brief Life” is a poetic homage to a farmer and the cows he raises. Shot over the course of a year on a small farm in rural Ontario, it follows the same cow through the cycle of the seasons from hours after its birth right on through until it is sold for meat. It is a film concerned with documenting an entire process from beginning to end and allowing the viewer to watch it unfold. “A Brief Life” is not an anti-meat film. It comes out of the concern that by living in an urban environment we can become…

  • Tracing Soul

    “Tracing Soul” is a poetic bodyscape where the sacred, sensual, primordial and profane female form imagines and evokes the possibilities of the soul through the coalescing of the fragments, intimate gestures, oblique angles, disintegrating lines and shadows, music and text enveloping the bodily compositions. Also available on the DVD compilation “Artist Spotlight Series: Michelle Mohabeer.”

  • Petals

    In 1999 the newspapers in Kerala South India broke a shocking tale of two young lesbian girls who ended their lives beneath a train. A note they carried stated that they were ending their lives because they had failed in their long struggle to live together in the harsh and hypocritical society of Kerela. It is an irony that Kerela is 100 per cent literate and one of the most literate places in the world. This film picks up on the agony of those innocent girls and many others who still struggle for their emotional rights.