Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Sisters

    A personal reflection on sisterhood, “Sisters” is a passage of time filled with memories and reflections, giving sense to the bond that sisters have.

  • sIgh

    “sIgh” is a film about the memory of love, or so-called love, and the search for what is expected and what is to be. In essence it is a film about the fairytale myth; it is a search for the truth in relationships.

  • Dizzy Lizzy

    Elizabeth is a girl with a secret… she sees fairies. Needless to say, this makes her something of a pariah with the neighbourhood kids. To make matters worse, every fairy she “rescues” turns up dead. Where do these mythological creatures come from? And why, despite Lizzy’s careful and loving ministrations, do they keep dying? Only her spinster Auntie Ann knows for sure.

  • Bitten

    A mysterious man (Sebastian Spence) arrives at a B&B managed by Natasha (Babz Chula) and her beautiful daughter Alvy (Jane McGregor), who find themselves vying for his attention. Alvy is ready to assume her womanhood, her mother is not yet ready to relinquish her waning sexual power. This is a coming-of-age battle between delicious youth and delectable experience. Awards: Audience Award, Best Short Film, NY International Film & Video Festival, 2003; Best Director of a Short Film, NY International Film & Video Festival, 2003; Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film – Babz Chula, NY International Film & Video Festival,…

  • Time We Killed, The

    “The Time We Killed” is a lush B&W experimental narrative that portrays the life and imaginings of a writer unable to leave her New York City apartment. Robyn Taylor tries to comprehend and fight her growing agoraphobia by looking into her own past and confronting the world events of the present (from a murder-suicide next door to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq). Robyn’s obsessive ruminations threaten to drive her deeper into the solitude of an illusory world, until a personal encounter with death prompts her to leave the safety of home once again. Documentary material, scripted and improvised scenes are…

  • Almost Forgot My Bones

    A lyrical video-poem which depicts the transformation of an African-Canadian woman’s identity as she goes in search of her roots. In order to find herself she must travel past skin into bone – to the root, the secret inside identity. Almost forgot my bones In this home without no mirrors Almost forgot my bones In this home without no mirrors Of myself, my skin, my kin, my hidden Of myself, my skin, my kin, my hidden

  • Standing Up

    At a surreal Texas bus-stop we meet Kate, a young punk who is befriended by Dorothy, an eccentric older woman. In this unlikely pairing, expectations and identity are questioned.

  • mary/me

    “mary/me” is a handmade cameraless film which uses collage techniques to sculpt the images and sound. The visual composition was made by meticulously cutting, shaping and collaging pages from “Cosmopolitan” magazine onto the film strip, combined with handpainting on the film. The sound treatment is created by pasting the words of an article from “Cosmo” titled “Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others” directly onto the film’s optical soundtrack, with the letters themselves forming the audio as their graphic shape is translated into sound. “‘mary/me’ is a stunning experimental collage film that explores the prevalence of the virgin-whore dichotomy…

  • Green

    “My first foray into collage animation uses low-fi techniques, such as a photocopier, to illustrate a story in limerick form. The limericks tell of a place where creativity is suppressed and all acts of resistance are covered over with white paint. It also illustrates a character who displays an open sexuality, both queer and polyamorous. The DIY aesthetic calls up notions of subversion of the dominant culture through its ues of low-tech and hand-made traces.” – Juliana Saragosa Selected screenings: Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto, 2004

  • Amoré

    Regular 8 film goes through a camera once, then gets flipped and run through again. When processed, the film is split down the middle and spliced end-to-end. I performed (unrehearsed) for a regular 8 camera as a boy as the film ran through the first time, exposing the right side of the film. Then I flipped the reel around AND flipped the camera around as I performed as a girl (in reverse) on the left side. I processed the film by hand and did not split it, so that the performances happen side-by-side. There is no editing in this film…