Film Categories: Work by Women

  • My Lesbian Friends

    A little girl tries to attract lesbians into her backyard, but soon it becomes and infested and her mother must call an exterminator.

  • The Prince’s Sword

    “The Prince’s Sword” is based on the true story of the conflict that arose in the director’s pacifist home when her 5-year old son wanted a toy sword. Reflecting the changing face of family, this film explores how two mothers struggle to guide their son’s masculinity in a peaceful, feminist fashion, while still honouring his boyhood. It puts a contemporary twist on the universal challenge of parenting as a complex process of letting go of what you love the most. When our children challenge our values, when it is right to hold on and when is it right to reconsider?

  • Gay Women Will Marry Your Boyfriends

    Lesbians explain what will happen if you don’t support gay marriage.

  • Decroux’s Garden

    A return after many years to the home of a beloved teacher. I am less than a trace returning to this garden, but I am here and my heart turns, hearing again, though differently, the songs that hang here still, in the breath of this place. –Baba Hillman

  • Just Passing Through

    Told through the perspective of a landscape, “Just Passing Through” tells the story of evolution as one image gives rise to the next. The film explores the relationship between permanence and impermanence where familiar subjects are fleeting and we are left to contemplate unfamiliar landscapes.

  • I Met A Man From Burma

    Inspired by the David Lynch Interview Project, this character-driven film explores the oldest going conflict in the world – the country of Burma (now Myanmar). Expressed through the personal pain of one man, Burmese Refugee and “Freedom Fighter”- Ler Wah Lobo, from personal loss, regret and hope – this is a tale of a man from Burma.

  • Howard

    “Howard” is a documentary about the filmmaker’s estranged Uncle Howard who was murdered in Yonkers in 1995. The film uncovers his complex and conflicted life as a gay man troubled with piety and self worth, which drove him to success, yet, ultimately led to self-destructive behavior and death. The story is intertwined with the filmmaker’s musings about the life/death of the Uncle she did not know in an attempt to comprehend what it means to have an estranged relative murdered.

  • HyperLightness ad absurdum

    An optical illusion afterimage deconstructs geometrical solid’s structures and reveals its divine progressions. Dynamic symmetry interlaces self-reflective mirror images of the original icon and creates a hypnotic procedure leading to extreme consciousness and visual telepathy. The Symbolism of Kabbalah’s and Christian omnipotent God reveals itself as Buddhist or Taoist illusionary rotational mandalas or yantras emphasising Maya’s attributes where space-time is an illusionary phenomena and paradox is latent in every polarised assumption only culminating in Absolute absurdity ad aeternum… HyperLightness ad absurdum reveals the optical characteristics of hyperspace and hypertime in a supersymmetric continuum by means of an optical illusion which…

  • Fresh Fruit

    Fresh Fruit explores the inner yearnings of a bored hostess, as she tastes a cornucopia of sweet and juicy offerings.

  • Crashing Skies

    An ordinary rural landscape is transformed into an enigmatic dreamscape. A farmhouse stands in a copper field of scratched emulsion as solarized flares illuminate the sky. Split toned horses amble dreamlike across the frame into inky underexposed blackness. Copper thistles sway in the wind, looming and strangely monumental. The hand-processed 16mm imagery creates an elliptical inner world of memory and dreams. Filmed at the Independent Imaging Retreat in Mount Forest, Ontario. Atmospheric sound design by Edmund Eagan.