Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Machine Guts

    An eerie, arresting story conceived by a deer. Narrated by Bill Burns.

  • Glitter

    Dancing in a parking lot never looked so good. Lights, camera, action!

  • breath

    A beautiful cameraless film based on the text and structure of a haiku, “breath” explores the interplay between sound, image and written word. The soundtrack is created by an optical light reading of three haikus and one short poem, all written by ninth-century Japanese poetesses. The film’s structure is based on the five-seven-five syllabic composition of a typical haiku.

  • Charleston Home Movie

    A charming and evocative sketch of the streets and people of a Southern American city. The images, distilled from hours of “home movies,” are converted from live-action to animation through a process called rotoscoping. “Morse’s drawings are beautiful, partly because of what she chose to leave out of the drawing and partly by what she chose to leave in. It is an almost perfect representation of a person’s memory.” – Grand Rapids Press

  • Galaxy Girls

    Selected screenings: Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, ON,1997; Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto, ON, 1997; Cinematheque Ontario “The Independents” Series, Toronto, ON, 1997; Pleasure Dome “It’s Not Easy Being Green Darlene,” Toronto, ON, 1997

  • soulsucka

    Chrome, fur, shades, shoes – it’s an all-femme action-packed ride. Sexy, trashy and aggressive. Selected screenings: San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, USA, 1998; MIX New York Gay & Lesbian Experimental Film & Video Festival, USA,1997; Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia, 1997; 10e Rencontres video art plastique, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, 1996; Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, ON,1997; Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto, ON, 1997; Cinematheque Ontario “The Independents” Series, Toronto, ON, 1997; Pleasure Dome “It’s Not Easy Being Green Darlene,” Toronto, ON, 1997

  • desire

    The kettle isn’t working. Maybe it’s broken, maybe it’s over-used, or maybe it’s just naughty! This woman has found domestic bliss and no one’s gonna take it away from her.

  • Silo

    In the restrictive confines of a circular room, five beautiful women communicate through sound – cackles, hisses, whispers, giggles and hushes. Intercut with quick, intimate shots of eyes, lips and hands, the film focuses on the women of Urge (Linda Catlin Smith, Fides Krucker, Marie-Josée Chartier, Katherine Duncanson and Anita La Selva) as they use a broad range of movements, gestures and vocal techniques to suggest a slightly sinister lullaby.

  • Red Brick

    “Red Brick” takes place in a psychic netherworld in which things take place paradoxically. Dancers, singers and other performers appear – pixilated, freeze-framed and swish-panned – while an artist constructs visual pieces in real time. A montage of constantly shifting images that refer to the score creates a pastiche of memories and archetypes. Choreographed by Bill James. Music by Michael J. Baker, performed by Arraymusic. Featuring Marie-Josée Chartier, Marc Richard and Barbara Hannigan.

  • Stolen Moment, A

    The world has fallen victim to viruses and diseases. There is no human touch, no eye contact, no socializing. It is not until Sophie catches the eye of a man who holds her gaze that her world opens up before her. How powerful can one look be?