Joyce Wieland – Water Sark (1965)
Joyce Wieland wrote: I wanted to make a self-sufficient film, photographing myself in those mirrors on the table with all that water and prisms, and glasses and cups. In a way I was saying I can do a...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – Patriotism Part II (1965)
Quote: In a way a portrait of Dave Shackman with the American flag. The ending is a stop-motion animation of a set table with food moving and swirling and finally gathering together in a ball. Joyce...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – The Far Shore (1976)
Quote: Set in 1918 Ontario, The Far Shore employs both melodramatic conventions and experimental formal strategies to tell the tale of Eulalie, a Quebecoise woman, and her love affair with Tom McLeod...
View ArticleJean-Gabriel Périot – Nijuman no borei AKA 200 000 fantômes AKA 200 000...
Quote: The film presents a succession of inanimate images of the Genbaku dome, the Peace Memorial in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. To the gentle, haunting music of Current 93 (‘Larkspur and...
View ArticleGaspar Noé – Une expérience d’hypnose télévisuelle AKA An Experience of...
“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 Noé...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland & Hollis Frampton – A and B in Ontario (1984)
Quote: 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...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – Patriotism (1964)
Quote: Depicts an army of phallic, bun-clad wieners marching on a vulnerable sleeping white male body, naked save for a sheet. Joyce Wieland - 1964 - Patriotism [DVD-NTSC].mkvGeneralContainer:...
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