Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Bon Bon

    A candyland town kicks up its sugar heels for a midday parad

  • Baking with Butch, Episode 2

    “Crusty Tops and Hot Bottoms” Starring Nina Levitt with Guests Megan Richard and Megan Stanton. This time Butch is in the kitchen baking white bread and knitting up a storm!

  • Lady Godiva

    Shannon fixes her cravings for Lady Godiva chocolate bars.

  • Traces

    Stunning hand-tinted imagery intermingles with a love letter to the artist’s departed dog Mica. Bittersweet as any country song, so familiar you swear you’ve heard it before – but it’s just your heart breaking, worn and sure.

  • Interviews with My Next Girlfriend

    The fight to win the title of next girlfriend is the subject of this hilarious short by director Cassandra Nicolaou. Starring a cast of Toronto celebrities including Ann-Marie Macdonald, Diane Flacks, Karen Robinson, Shoshana Sperling and Moynan King, nine women are questioned by an unknown interviewer to see if they measure up. Awards: Audience Award & Best Comedy, planetout.com/HBO Short Movie Awards; Audience Favourite, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival; Audience Award, Best Short Film, Inside Out Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival; Best Short Film, Paris Lesbian Film Festival; Audience Award, Best Fiction Film, Bologna International Women’s…

  • Red Book, The

    “The Red Book” is an elliptical, pictographic animated film that uses flat, painted figures and collage elements in both two and three-dimensional settings to explore the realms of memory, language, and identity from the point of view of a woman amnesiac. “The Red Book” suggests the ways in which language defines us, and reaches back into dismemberment myths about creation of different tongues through the breaking apart of bodies (in this case, the woman’s body). As the film progresses, the submerged images of her stored memory appear and collide with the present world in circular rhythms, and there is a…

  • Lost Motion

    Gothic, mechanized and faintly arcane with a provocative erotic charge, Geiser‘s film floats the viewer in a surreal world of subconscious imaginings both seductive and deeply disturbing. “‘Lost Motion’ begins with a male toy figure set in a kitchen. We are familiar with this setting (we’ve all been in kitchens) but estranged from it as well (this kitchen is very creepy)….”- Barry Doyle

  • Chosen Family, The

    Families, whether chosen or biological, have a single aim – to drive us nuts, as this astute and comic film demonstrates.

  • Housesitter, The

    Two neurotic dykes describe in hilarious detail how to take care of their 3 cats.

  • Pineapple

    The film explores a triangular relationship between three women that explodes into violence when the woman controlling the relationship doesn’t get her way. It also explores the reality that to possess or control someone is not the same as loving them. Laura is a woman who desperately wants to possess her lover, but is insecure and unable to fully love her. In beginning Laura and Carrie are a happy couple, but as Laura has an affair with Cat, the relationship becomes unstable. Unable to control Carrie, Laura turns to physical and emotional abuse as her way of keeping Carrie under…