Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Flyers

    A street flyer leads to a surprising discovery.

  • Duration of Life and Other Tales from the Grimms, The

    Seven of the Grimms’ most mysterious and obscure fairytales are told over a dazzling display of Ontario landscape. Under the guidance of Katherine Grier’s careful telling, Canadian filmmaker Amy Bodman uses the film to create a dialogue between the inner and outer worlds, attempting to show how one’s imaginings are essential in giving meaning in our day-to-day living.

  • Free Man

    When Michael’s partner of thirteen years, Charlie, dies unexpectedly, he is forced to work with his estranged mother-in-law, Celine, to plan his funeral. When they have a difference of opinion, Michael finds himself embroiled in a power struggle for the right to plan the memorial the way Charlie wanted. While Michael begins to dive deep into his psyche to keep the memory of Charlie alive, Celine turns to the legal system, stripping Michael of Charlie’s burial rights. Michael must use his music and the power of their union to confront his grief and mourn his dead lover.

  • To reveal the fourteen windows

    “To reveal the fourteen windows” a collaboration with Denver-based Poet Julie Carr In crayon drawings Some persons lie buried in fire and some have been suspended in a wave Rain withdraws its praise

  • Atlantiques

    Sitting by the campfire, Serigne, a young man from Dakar, tells his two friends the story of his sea voyage as a stowaway. “Melancholic and mysterious, the film urgently and elegantly addresses the perils of illegal migration” (Andréa Picard, TIFF Wavelengths). Tiger Award for Best Short Film, Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2010; No Violence Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2011.

  • in the nature of things

    The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest – sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations and myths embedded in it – myths within which we live and which live within us – our collective history. But, unexpected moments, intensified fragments, catch us unawares – the present confronts us. For Emmanuel Levinas, the face-to-face encounter with another is a privileged phenomenon in which the person’s proximity and distance are both strongly felt. “The face opens the primordial discourse whose first word is obligation…the face speaks…the first word of the face is ‘Thou…

  • Dyketactics

    A popular lesbian “commercial,” 110 images of sensual touching montages in A,B,C,D rolls of “kinaesthetic” editing. ” “The images are varied and very quickly presented in the early part of the film, introducing the characters, if you will. The second half of the film slows down measurably and all of a sudden I found myself holding my breath as I watched the images of lovemaking sensually and artistically captured.” – Elizabeth Lay, Plexus

  • Small, Stupid and Insignificant

    “Small, Stupid and Insignificant” is a film about a family’s struggle with choosing to live. Marie is a single mother, her sister is in a coma, and her Mama is a rosary clutching leave-it-to-God kind of woman. Marie is haunted by her sister, who has been in a coma for three years, to pull the plug. And yet neither of them feels like living. This all changes after one intoxicated night when Marie meets a wandering spirit that helps her realize not only her sister’s wish for freedom, but also her own. Winner, Experimental Drama Award, Female Eye Film Festival…

  • Spiral Transition

    “Spiral Transition” is a candid, compelling and interwoven documentary that explores the filmmaker’s relationship with his mother and how it is changing and evolving as he transitions genders.

  • Ransom Notes

    The filmmaker’s response to her experience of the hijacking of her city during the Toronto G20 Summit, “Ransom Notes” re-appropriates language and meaning through the act of collage. The film combines new and old media (film, newsprint, print-outs of twitter feeds) to explore social mobilization through mass media. The soundtrack of the film was created by placing letters, words and sentences directly on the optical soundtrack. “We have your …” “The ransom note, in our collective imagination, is an interesting entry point to the politics of ownership, freedom and exchange value, made by transforming mass media (newspapers) content into a…