Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Escalate

    “Escalate” is an animated short that features stop-motion and scratch animation with original music by Pixie Cram.

  • Crickets

    Sue, a 10-year-old Korean-Canadian, playfully pushes the limits until she finds herself in unexpected territory. “A bittersweet interracial romance between two prepubescent insect-lovers.” – Gemma Files, EYE Weekly Selected screenings & awards: Special Jury Prize, Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. Screenings in over a dozen festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival (1998); SXSW; and the New York, SF, Toronto, and LA Asian film festivals.

  • Wide-Eyed

    In an awkward attempt to meet the ideal western standards of beauty, Julie, a 16-year-old Korean-Canadian, obsesses about double eyelid surgery. Her tomboy sister Jean is fascinated yet repulsed by her older sister’s serious body-image issues. Neither of them can come to any entirely comfortable sort of compromise on the right way to love each other, or themselves. Selected screenings: International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany; Visual Communications, LA, California; Giffoni Film Festival, Salerno, Italy.

  • Paper, Scissors, Rock

    “Paper, Scissors, Rock” is the story of an unhappily married Korean woman who finds salvation in punk music after a breakdown.

  • Attack of the Bride Monster

    A “Bride Monster” is loose in the gay community; can Betty and Stella’s 25-year relationship survive? When Betty falls under the Bride Monster ‘s bedazzling spell, Stella watches in horror as her long-time companion is transformed into the kind of woman that only Rock Hudson (or Godzilla) could love. Attack of the Bride Monster blends live-action and animation in a highly stylized homage to the romantic comedies and monster movies of the 1950s. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the rise and fall of same sex marriage, Attack of the Bride Monster challenges all lovers to pop this question: “Just…

  • ina unt ina (theme song)

    “ina unt ina” euro-electro-pop divas are back from windy tropical islands to offer you this perfect pop illusion for pleasure. The music is music, You are feeling the feeling. ina unt ina are Celina Carroll and Christina Zeidler. As World Pop Diva Sensations they have performed all across Queen St. West from Ossington to Dufferin, it’s only time before they get on the subway…..

  • Struggling in Paradise

    Amidst information overload, communication overkill and mediated emotions, Paradise, as a state of complete happiness, remains a fleeting promise, a state of mind impossible to achieve. Some seek refuge in the creative process, some multiply “various emotions” while other just drive along on the road to Paradise, thinking there is “nothing to worry about.” In the end, it is just all about “the drive.”

  • 1000 Feet

    A walk through the city of Maputo becomes a poetic visual essay. Inspired by two Mozambican poems, its central themes are: shoes, time, space, history, humanity, reading the asphalt and the intrusive effect of a camera. Scenes from everyday life and a series of portraits link with radio loops and local ambiance sound. The curious gaze of a foreigner gradulally evolves to the fascinated look of a gues enchanted by the city and its people. Strangeness, obstruction and mutual unease are step by step replaced by contact and communication. Distance and closeness measured in feet: the theme for a possible…

  • Hydromancy

    In search of the oceanic feeling: the fusion of subject and object. The oceanic feeling refers to the experience of feeling connected, the sensation of something unlimited and infinite, oceanic as it were. In “Hydromancy” this is made visual with abstract images of water, both a source of inspiration and a creative force. A water dance and dancing water combined. Waves of aspiration, inspiration and exhaltation. An exiting inner search to face the imaginary.

  • Going Back Home

    Turmoil of unsheltered childhood; the dwelling as self. “Louise Bourque’s ‘Going Back Home’ conveys a sense of loss and upheaval with just a few images.” – Steve Anker and Kathy Geritz, program notes, San Francisco International FIlm Festival, 2002 “The disasters of life can make it hard to go home. Bourque’s brief, beautiful, and affecting film goes by so quickly it’s printed twice on the reel, so you can get a second look.” – Program notes, Images Festival, 2001 “To the scratchy sounds of an old music box… ‘Going Back Home’ weaves snippets of old reels of houses collapsing, fires…