Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Robots

    A cameraless animation that spins, spins, spins… we are the robots.

  • Suburban Is a State of Mind

    Nostalgia appropriated from Hollywood soundtracks addresses the problem of artistic innovation in a post-modern age by using videotaped images projected from a broken Super 8 projector.

  • Urban Caustic

    Toronto, love it or hate it; the overwhelming chaos of the city, the noise and smog. Shot in three different mediums – miniDV, 16mm and Super 8 – hand-processing attempts to subvert the reign of video and “take back film” by shooting video onto film. The processes involved in making this film rely on the physical interaction with the film, creating a personal and intimate chemical reaction. The random rhythm of the optical printing, the scratchy, worn-out look of the hand-processing and the aural collage evoke an emotional and experiential response to living in this crazy town we call Toronto.

  • Believe

    Using photo-booth animation, two girls try to put together a patchy faith.

  • Yin Yin/Jade Love

    “Yin Yin/Jade Love” is a documentary about a granddaughter’s discovery of her grandmother after she has died. The film simultaneously explores the emotional impact of the filmmaker’s last visit with her grandmother, her death, what was subsequently discovered about her extraordinary life, and childhood memories surrounding her and her home. The narration, by the filmmaker, is supported by past (VHS, 8mm, historical stills), present (16mm) and recreated (Super 8) images that are woven together creating a rich, densely layered, reflective collage. “Yin Yin/Jade Love” hopes to capture a portrait of the filmmaker’s Yin Yin and convey insight into the experience…

  • My Mother at the Consulate

    “My Mother at the Consulate” is a montage-based exploration of absence and presence and the passage of time. It is an addition to a series of personal pieces about the filmmaker’s mother.

  • Pretty Ladies: A Super 8 Explosion

    “This playful, all-girl black-and-white fantasy is indeed exploding with gorgeous, grainy Super 8 imagery. What begins as a cute send-up of old silent comedies morphs into a deliriously erotic, effects-filled dreamscape, a sapphic take on underground gay-boy filmmaker Kenneth Anger.” – Miami Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

  • Her 13th Incarnation

    Told through a montage of personal photographs and video images, backed with dynamic, cutting-edge prose/poetics, “Her 13th Incarnation” is one Black, queer woman’s exploration of gender, sexuality, and the infinite fluidity of identity and desire.

  • InsideOut

    The film frame is a metaphor for the body and a Woman feeling like it is a boundary.

  • Untitled

    An abandoned farmhouse serves as a catalyst for the exploration of childhood, fabricated memory, and domestic architecture. As a girl moves from one decaying room to the next, anxiety induced by physical spaces is reflected, and ultimately destroyed.