Film Categories: Work by Women

  • My Lesbian Friend

    A young girl catches a wild lesbian in her backyard. After getting permission from her mother, the girl can keep the lesbian as a pet, but only for the day.

  • Borders

    “Borders” is an intimate exploration of the bodies belonging to six queer individuals. This animation, made up of hundreds of high-resolution photographs, unabashedly examines the evidence of physical change and transformation: top surgery scars, tattoos, and other traces. The bodies are fragmented, as are the stories affiliated with these traces, and identities remain delightfully elusive. “Borders” is available as a single-channel work or as an extended installation.

  • For the Lucky and the Strong

    “For the Lucky and the Strong” synchronizes appropriated YouTube clips from nine young women to create a united chorus singing Bette Midler’s “The Rose.” Evoking a stalker-like quality by design, “For the Lucky and the Strong” makes the viewer complicit as voyeur, along with the masses who fixate on vulnerable young girls. The women stare into their webcams, some self-consciously, in an act of performative bravery and dramatic teenage angst, but they cannot hold the gaze and look away.

  • Necessary Games: Triptych

    A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Awards: Best Experimental Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival (2009), Best…

  • Necessary Games: Moths

    A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Part 1: MOTHS: Two men collide in a dank night world, drenched with…

  • Necessary Games: Sixteen

    A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Part 2: SIXTEEN: A coming-of-age game about nervousness, joy, desire and intimacy, and…

  • Necessary Games: Necessity

    A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Part 3: NECESSITY: A game between two girls eternally bound together. They trace…

  • Conchitas

    Slippery, colourful gummy bears and hundreds of little conches are used to construct a barrier against the stillness of a summer day. Two landscapes are juxtaposed, one of Georgian Bay in Lake Huron and the other of Veracruz Beach in Panama City. Two voices narrate an intimate conversation about the fear of dangers hidden deep in salty waters. Spanish with English subtitles.

  • Lacuna

    Lacuna: 1. an empty space or a missing part; a gap; an absence. 2. a discontinuity in an anatomical structure. Selected screenings: WNDX Festival, Winnipeg, MB, 2009; Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal, QC, 2009

  • House of Olga, The

    The roots of invasive vines threaten the preservation of Casco Antiguo’s declining heritage buildings in the historic district of Panama City. While the area continues to gentrify rapidly, Olga quietly tends to the plants amidst her home of ruins. “THE HOUSE OF OLGA” documents an unorthodox traveler in search of the perfect dwelling. Spanish with English subtitles.