Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Voiliers et Coquelicots (Poppies and Sailboats)

    Little is necessary for everything to appear differently. The date, the hour, the weather, the space’s layout, one’s glance or presence of mind can make everything change. The boats sail out of the Vieux port in Marseille to be amongst the poppy fields. Il suffit de peu pour que tout apparaisse autrement. Date, heure, météo, regard, disposition des lieux, présence d’esprit … tout peut changer. R.L.

  • Habitat

    In this film we move away from the notion of a work based on a preconceived filming procedure ajusting the visual characteristiques of the image in order to approach the temporal dimension of a pond full of frogs. In front of such creatures that tend to be elusive there arises a question of more general interest as to how can one record moments that are meanful, how can one render visible, present a moment that is alive and connect the items forming the different recorded moments up together ? On s’éloigne dans ce film d’une œuvre dont la forme est…

  • Bouquets 21-30

    BOUQUETS 21-30 is a part of the ecological BOUQUETS series, consisting of one-minute films composed in the camera by weaving the characteristics of different environments with the activities there at the time. The filming basically entails using the film strip as a canvas with the freedom to film frames on any part of the strip in any order, running the film through the camera as many times as needed. Thus each bouquet of flowers is also a unique bouquet of film frames. BOUQUET 21 was filmed in a tiny paradise which took years to create, La Baraque, an organic farm…

  • Soft Place to Fall, A

    Caustic, tender and poignant, “a soft place to fall” is a dance film that investigates a couple’s shifting relationship. This dance tells the passionate story of a man and a woman and the humour and peril of becoming vulnerable to each other as they move through states of obsession and determination.

  • Garden of Earthly Delights, The

    “The Garden of Earthly Delights” is visual duet consisting of a 16mm film and a 16mm photogram self-portrait collage. It is inspired by the earthly pleasures and wonders as revealed in the vibrant marvels of Stan Brakhage’s cinema, and in the central panel of the 1504 triptych by Hieronymous Bosch titled “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” Commissioned for CFMDC ReGeneration. Selected Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdan (2009); WNDX Festival (Manitoba, Canada, 2009); Kunstencentrum Buda (Budapest, 2009); CFMDC ReGeneration Touring Program (Canada, 2008)

  • La Vie en Pellicule

    “‘La vie en pellicule’ is film about a promise I made my son at his birth. He was born at the end of the year 2006 when negatives of family snapshots and precious moments are rare. I promised him that he would grow up with negatives as records of our lives.” – Lise Beaudry Commissioned for CFMDC ReGeneration. Image description: A scratched, blue-tinted archival image of two girls playing in a swimming pool.

  • Afghanimation

    Women in Afghan refugee camps make woven rugs that tell a story of war. The intent of these rugs is unclear. Are they anti-war or an affirmation of military power? Are they made as tourist trinkets for soldiers and “peacekeepers,” or are they somber prayer rugs? The weavers of these rugs are anonymous to Western collectors because the rugs are attained through intricate channels of trade. This kind of silencing of the artists’ voices and the political ambivalence of their intent can be read as a metaphor for the Canadian military presence in Afghanistan. “Canadians don’t know what the Canadian…

  • Hunt, The

    The intensity of an internal struggle manifests itself externally, as revealed through an intimate, fragmented view of dancer, Peter Trosztmer, as choreographed by Sharon Moore. “The Hunt” explores the anatomy of the hunter and the transformation that occurs inside – calmness, pressure, extreme tension, consequence of the hunt, calling up/manufacturing the condition of enemy in order to justify killing, delirium and gleefulness that denotes insanity, and enjoyment of such experience. This ultimately returns to calm and cascading back into the pleasure moments, attempts to return to sanity.

  • Crushed

    “Crushed” is a meditation on media through the eyes of grief. Can Dr. Phil mend a broken heart? This work pays homage to Midi Onodera’s “Basement Girl.” Commissioned for CFMDC ReGeneration.

  • Shift

    A low-tech sci-fi story set in a disenfranchised, near-future post-Crash urban sprawl, a violent place with no one in authority. We meet the Switchcocks, an all-girl revenge gang who make their living by taking on vengeance contracts for other Glop residents, and running drugs. One night, Lexi, gang member by night, courier by day, hooks the gang up with the dangerously potent drug called ‘shift.’ They sample it and then they run amok, taking ‘vengeance’ on an Enclave drone – without a contract: for fun. Lexi awakens the following day and must deal with the aftermath and her own role…