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Rat Life and Diet in North America is a Canadian short film, directed by Joyce Wieland and released in 1968. A satirical allegory for the political climate of the 1960s, the film centres on a group of gerbils who are being held as political prisoners by a cat, until eventually escaping to Canada and taking up organic farming.Read More »
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Reason over Passion is one of Joyce Wieland’s most renowned experimental films – a cross-country travelogue, political satire, modernist experiment – which embodies many of the themes recurrent in her rich, diverse and extensive oeuvre.Read More »
In Rohfilm (1968, W. & B. Hein) dirt, sprocket-holes etc. appear independently of a continuous film-strip as aesthetic elements in their own right. Hairs, ashes, bits of tobacco, shredded film-images scraps of paper, sprocket-holes, perforated splicing-tape etc. are glued onto blank film and then re-filmed. The film-strip is then subjected to different reproduction- processes (re-filming from the editing-table, the movieola and the video monitor) and the result is an impression of destruction on a massive scale.Read More »
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A film on the Dare strike of the early 1970s. Hundreds of feet and legs, milling, marching and picketing with the word Solidarity superimposed on the screen. The soundtrack is an organizer’s speech on the labour situation. Like her films “Rat Life and Diet in North America,” “Pierre Vallieres” and “Reason Over Passion,” Solidarity combines a political awareness, an aesthetic viewpoint and a sense of humour unique in Wieland’s work.Read More »
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Filmed in Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow’s loft in New York, the film covers a day of friends visiting, writing and drawing from noon of one day to dawn the next day.Read More »
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Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the cuts are open and numerous in their intent, the underlying motivation is the delicate reveal of the transparency of presence, our tender mystery midst the elaborate unfolding of the tree of life.
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Depicts an army of phallic, bun-clad wieners marching on a vulnerable sleeping white male body, naked save for a sheet.Read More »
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A&B IN ONTARIO was completed eighteen years after the original material was shot. After Frampton’s death, the film was assembled by Wieland into a cinematic dialogue in which the collaborators (in the spirit of the sixties) shoot each other with cameras.Read More »
“What interests me is the hypnotic trance into which a viewer can be plunged. When you make a film and it works, you’re like a shaman, a hypnotist.” – Gaspar NoéRead More »