Joyce Wieland Movies

Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma),...

A cutout of a woman's silhouette is displayed in many locations while a free jazz soundtrack is heard. The jazz musicians later pose for the camera...

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

Joyce Wieland: “Hollis and I came back to Toronto on holiday in the summer of '67. We were staying at a friend's house. We worked our way...

“This film is against the corporate military industrial structure of global village.”

You see nothing but a white, crystal white plate, and water dripping into the plate, and you hear the sound of the water dripping. The film is ten...

Considered one of Canada's most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century, Joyce Wieland's art embodies the essence of her...

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

Constructed from found and stock footage, Barbara’s Blindness is a meditation on vision and adversity, drawing humour and pathos from a...

The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

One of Joyce Wieland's earliest works, shot in 8mm and finally blown-up to 16mm, “Larry’s Recent Behaviour” has been described by...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

A camera moves back and forth at an increasing pace. Back and forth, back and forth...

"I decided to make a film at my kitchen table, there is nothing like knowing my table. The high art of the housewife. You take prisms, glass, lights...

The movie takes a rather negative look at things despite the fact that it was shot in reversal film. It depicts the turbulent relationships of...

The rising moon is the main theme in this short movie of three people and an animal going about their nocturnal rituals. This movie is evidently part...