Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Retrato Oficial 1 | Official Portrait 1

    After declared unfit to stand trial in England, former dictator Augusto Pinochet stands up out of his wheelchair and greets supporters.

  • Leche

    This film, hand processed and hung to dry on the clothesline, examines details of the life of one family, living on an isolated dairy ranch in Central Mexico. Uman’s “Mala Leche” (2003) is a companion piece. Spanish language with sub-titles.

  • Mala Leche

    This film follows members of the family presented in Uman’s earlier film “Leche” (1998). Now living in California’s agricultural Central Valley, they continue to work with dairy cattle but under very different circumstances.

  • Private Movie

    A love story in three parts. This film tells of a woman’s journey of love, with nostalgia, pets, places and men.

  • Hand Eye Coordination

    “Hand Eye Coordination” explores the manual manipulations upon the film body, examining the cinematic result of mechanical interventions. This film tells the story of its own making.

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    Using a piece of 1970’s porn film, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has created a new pornography, one in which the woman exists only as a hole – an empty, animated space.

  • In the Garden

    A quiet moment with the plants. A home-grown film: shot in my garden, processed in my basement, and dried on the lawn. (LF) Selected screenings: Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2007; Images Festival, Toronto, ON, 2004; Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Toronto, ON, 2004; “Textured Traces,” Foreman Art Gallery, Montreal, QC, 2005; Best of the LIFT $99 Film Festival Tour, various locations, 2005

  • Does this mean we’re going together?

    Part two of the artist’s trilogy exploring the depiction of sexuality in teen films of the 1980s, in which a scene from “Valley Girl” is re-worked.

  • MISORDER DISORDER

    A comic short about love and illness. Shot on shimmering black-and-white stock, MISORDER DISORDER follows one man’s bizarre morning bathroom routine and his hesitant female love interest.

  • If Anyone Should Happen to Get In My Way

    This animation was shot from hi-con coloured Lomo photographs of a girl in various animal states, licking her wounds. A meditation on female anger.