Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Rub

    Masturbation is one of life’s sweetest distractions. This experimental film is an homage to the pleasures a girl can experience, all on her own.

  • Broken Dreams

    “Broken Dreams” is a beautifully filmed, evocative look into and out of the world of depression. Filmed in Super 8 and 16mm with a hand-wind Bolex camera, it captures the essence of darkness and light, hope and despair. Experimental images take us through a series of landscapes including the bleak moon-like setting of White’s Pass in Alaska, the unendingly high office towers of New York City, the eerie facade of the Carlton Hotel all alight for the Cannes Film Festival and then fall beneath the surface of the ocean to the depths of another world filled with undulating sea grass,…

  • Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road & 97th Street

    Highlighting the repetitive nature of oil wells in northern Alberta, this film documents a sighting common to the Canadian prairies.

  • Memories That Sing

    “Memories That Sing” is how filmmaker Isabel Fryszberg captures the unsung stories and songs of her mother, just before her unexpected death. She reveals the songs and stories of her mother’s childhood in Poland just before the Holocaust. At the end Fryszberg becomes the song and story of her mother’s forgotten world.

  • Spaghetti 8

    Super 8 gunplay – explosive scratching, amazing stunts and fabulous outfits – experimental artgak at its finest!

  • Locks Part Two: Dread Execution!

    The gaze – taken into the hands of four women who craft, document and participate in a ritual dread locks removal. This super-low-budget film subtly subverts the hegemonic forms of production by optically printing miniDV, 16mm and Super 8 to hand-processed 16mm.

  • May 13th

    “May 13th” is concerned with a college student’s daily routine at a recreational centre and the ensuing violent assault by a stranger. The voices of four women, expressing their own feelings and relating their own experiences, respond to the act of violence.

  • Marilyn and Media

    Marilyn Monroe, roboticized by copy-protection, is captured and trapped forever by the media and the medium of celluloid.

  • Parade

    A hand-made film that explores a 21st-century ritual celebration – Toronto’s Gay Pride Parade (2000). The contrast between the images’ archival quality with the 90’s dance music makes us wonder whether we are watching an event of some forgotten culture, or something urban and modern.

  • Pink/Blue

    A split-screen of a white wedding and the Superbowl exhibits gender stereotypes in popular culture.