Film Categories: Work by Women
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Film Scroll
“This Super 8 film was first presented as part of a ritual performance where I am naked and pull a white piece of fabric out of myyoni, pin it up and project the film onto it from reverse, while speaking the words on the film. The performance was part of a collective recreation of Carolee Schneeman’s ‘Interior Scroll.’ Each of us did a personal variation based on her 1975 performance. Schneeman’s piece included a letter to a filmmaker who criticized her work. My ‘letter’ is to an ex-partner who criticized me and my work, leaving me with feelings of inadequacy…
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Freeshow Seymour Compilation
Freeshow Seymour is the collaborative effort of Allyson Mitchell and Christina Zeidler, who came together to explore their mutual crush on film-craft. Individually, they have been making work since 1994. In 2003 they both attended the Big Rock Candy Mountain residency at The Banff Centre, where they joined forces to highlight the work they are doing on candy and consumption and to explore their love of film. The basis of Freeshow Seymour is process. The two artists meet and see what evolves out of being together – whether it is films, music, crafts, performance or just thrift-store shopping. Their artworks…
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surfacing
“The world is too much with us; late and soon,/Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…” – W. Wordsworth Our busy comings-and-goings, on the move, working at life are pictured. Layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths an effort, but glimpses of other states suggest we can surface. “A beautiful film. A new way with colour. But more and more epiphanic.” – Barbara Godard
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Cityscape
“Cityscape” is an impressionistic documentary film intended to create a social awareness of the need to design safer cities and urban environments for women.
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object / loss
“object/loss” addresses themes of physical loss, memory, sexual identity and the didactic divides that shape the fabric of our social existence. Ghostly images collide and fragment as traces of memory resurface and disappear. The title refers to the work of Julia Kristeva on the melancholy/depressive position which occurs through object loss, and the contingent aggression towards the lost object. At the same time the film attempts to examine the consumption of the male figure and its objectification from a feminine heterosexual position.
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Coming Out at Work Is Hard to Do
When you’re in the closet at work, “coming out” is always a drama. But no one expects it to be like the jaw-dropping experience recounted in this short, sharp and funny tale. Coming out at work is indeed hard to do. Awards: HBO Audience Award for Best Female Short, Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, USA
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Dominion
A reworking of images of Princess Diana drawn from a CNN tribute called “The People’s Princess.” The isolated and manipulated images point to England’s colonial past and to the elusiveness of a media image.
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you wash my skin with sunshine
With few childhood memories of her mother’s affection, Mullen mines old home movies for evidence. When she doesn’t find exactly what she’s looking for, she sets out to create a new family movie of her own, starring her surprisingly willing mother. A reflection on memory, loss, reconciliation and love.
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Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf
An Arab-American girl tries to come to terms with her sexuality while balancing the mores of two different cultures. As she faces a series of trials on confrontations, will she shed her passivity, or will her spirit be broken? Arabic/Hebrew with English sub-titles. Selected Screenings: 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
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Finite, The
“The Finite” lays bare the ephemeral nature of family, home and life on earth through a combination of home movies and archival footage from a science documentary. The two forms of imagery entwine along a common and inescapable course toward destruction, revealing the gravity of personal loss. Selected screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, 2004; CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2006