Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Remains

    “The mother figure revisited – a recurring theme in my work. A celluloid deterioration that addresses the ephemeral quality of the captured moment (the present) while revealing the insistent power of human presence in even the most deteriorated of states. The image of the mother is like a ghost that we won’t let go. A lament for the inevitable loss of legibility. “ – Louise Bourque

  • Price of Flowers, The

    In post-Katrina New Orleans, street hustler Red sells carnations to support himself and his disabled lover, Sal. Living in a crowded halfway house, Red struggles to earn enough money to get Sal and himself a little place where they can be together. One fateful night Red is forced to weigh his desire for a home of his own against the realities of urban life.

  • Bouquets 11-20

    Comprised of ten one-minute films, shot at ecological sites in Italy, Switzerland and France, “Bouquets 11-20”, continues the work begun with the series “Bouquets 1-10” and “21-30.” Each bouquet of flowers is also a bouquet of film frames, woven together using in-camera techniques. “Bouquets 11-20”, filmed in Italy, Switzerland and France, was delayed by the weather and a series of related technical/aesthetic incidents. The ten little films (1 minute or 1440 frames each, with the exception of 23 frames or nearly a second more for n°16), continue the work begun with the series “Bouquets 1-10” and “21-30.” This consists of…

  • Drowning in Flames

    Torossian’s latest film marks a leap forward, and that’s saying a lot for a filmmaker who’s been releasing brilliant splashes of handmade abstraction into the world for the past two years. “Drowning in Flames” uses an astounding palette of image processing techniques to address the artistic process in both subject and form.

  • Jardin du soleil (Sun Garden)

    Beginning with natural light, an élément that played a major rôle in cinematographic développement, the subject of the film evolves around solar panels in two different places, Cascina Piola, Asti, in Italy, and Le Vieil Eclis, in Loire Atlantique, Asserac, France. We find ourselves in the middle of sparkling light, exposed to the wind, like the butterflies, the bees and the little clouds. (R.L.)

  • Jardins du Marais (Marsh Gardens)

    These magnificent gardens, in the Parc naturel régional de Brière, in the middle of the presqu’ile de Guérande, Loire-Atlantique, in France, covers over a hectare of land. It’s vegetable garden, ornamental garden, small forest and two ponds, make up a continuously evolving space, but also a visual mumble-jumble of wild life that draws one to delve into it in order to explore it cinematographically. In honor of Annick Bertrand-Gillen and Yves Gillen, the creators of this magnificent space in the middle of nature. (R.L.)

  • Rien d’extraordinaire (Nothing Special)

    Just a glimpse of this beautiful spot around the Hôtel-Pension Beau-Site on the Chemin sur Martigny, Switzerland, in a hamlet surrounded by snow-capped mountains. (R.L.) Music by François Alexis Degrenier (NB: Music starts before picture and ends after picture).

  • L’Internationale

    In a foreign landscape, futuristic factories and boreholes harvesting geothermal steam serve as beacons of familiarity in the face of an unknown future. Selected screenings: Best Experimental, Chicago Underground Film Festival; Signal & Noise Media Art Festival (Vancouver, BC), 2011; Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, 2011

  • I remember my dreams by the colour they are…

    With a soundtrack gleaned from composer Delia Derbyshire’s classic “Inventions for Radio” series for the BBC, Magnusson crafts a collage of oil-slide projections and family snapshots illustrating the qualities of dreams, memory and colour. (Images Festival catalogue, 2011) Selected screenings: Images Festival (Toronto, ON), 2011; Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, 2010.

  • Difficult Love

    “Difficult Love” is an intimate, thought-provoking portrait of internationally celebrated South African lesbian photographer, Zanele Muholi, and her highly personal take on the challenges facing black lesbians in South Africa today. The film features interviews with Muholi as well as with her friends, colleagues and peers, and provides a compelling overview of the artist, her life and her work. This poignant documentary takes us behind the façade of art making and shares with us the highly political environment Muholi must navigate in order to bring her lush photographs to light. Winner Best Short Film – Audience Award, Africa in the…