Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Still Life

    Unlike the mediated images of current warfare, director Cynthia Madansky examines the effects of the destruction of Occupation through the details of cinematic landscapes and its inherent inhabitants. Through sound and image “Still Life” lays devastation at our doorstep. In its relentless questioning reaffirmed with a unique and unremitting soundtrack by composer Zeena Parkins, “Still Life” forces us to focus on the details of present-day Palestine. Selected screenings: Berlin Film Festival, 2005; Split Festival of New Film, Croatia, 2005; Winner, Youth Award, Festival de Cine de Huesca, Spain, 2005; Human Rights Film Festival, New York, 2005; Museum of Modern Art,…

  • paradise falls, new mexico

    “The desert wind from America’s Southwestern ghost towns blows through the film’s emulsion, stripping away the myth behind the imagery of shoot-outs, outlaws and the lone gunmen from Hollywood Westerns.” – Images Festival, Toronto, 2004 Note: 16mm dual-projection Selected Screenings: Time Inside the Image [3], Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Jan. 31-March 31, 2007

  • Little Life, A

    Hatch, eat, fly, die. The life of “phaenicia sericata,” the green bottle fly. A little life, a short film. No dialogue. Suitable for all ages.

  • Nocturno

    A woman struggles with the emptiness of her life, her emotional landscape reflected in the images around her. Through macro photography of a bread-making process, a seemingly mundane domestic scene is transformed into something sensual and deeply emotional. Selected screenings & awards: CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, 2005; Jury’s Pick, CSIF $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB, 2005; Best Canadian Film or Video Award, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2004; Doug Wandrei Award for Best Lighting Design, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004; Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA, 2003; Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, NS, 2003

  • Red Flag Women

    There are several types of women – some have personality traits that send up red flags. Here are a few examples…

  • Child-Play

    Set in an imaginary nameless space that closely resembles the Caribbean, “Child-Play” is an allegorical Dream Tale paralleling the “innocence” of childhood and the elder phases of existence. Ateesha Mansara, a woman in her late sixties, has lived a life colonized by her own fears about the threat of usurpation of her identity by the Dutchman Spirit of a child molester, whom she had previously met when she was a girl of ten. The spirit of Georgie De Root revisits Ateesha fifty years later in a final attempt to lay “claim” to her soul. Or does he? Available on DVD…

  • I Don’t Exist

    “I Don’t Exist” succintly shows one girl’s feelings of isolation, invisibility and anger on the streets of Hackney. Excellent camerawork makes this piece a small gem.

  • Bug Girl

    Part science movie, part storybook, “Bug Girl” is an ecological fable. While searching for her lost cat, a young girl accidentally swallows a bee. Macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds collide and the young girl enters the biotech garden. Here, innocence is lost and her journey transforms into a visual tumble through nature, biology and consciousness. “Bug Girl” is primarily intended to be an installation piece shown in a gallery context. However, it can also be screened as a single-channel work. For the installation, the image is projected onto a circular screen with surround sound. Contact the CFMDC for fees and technical…

  • Booty Dance

    An animation that seeks to deduce how lesbians and gay men can exist in harmony on the dance floor.

  • P

    “P” explores a single theme: excrements. Babies, worms and flies guide us through a compilation of facts and theories, approaching a theme often regarded as disgusting in a meaningful and humorous way.