Joyce Wieland
Biography: Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) was an experimental filmmaker and artist, whose work challenged and bridged boundaries among avant garde film factions of her time. Her works introduced a kind of manual manipulation of the filmstrip that inscribed an explicitly female craft tradition into her films, while also playing with the facticity of photographed images. Wieland's output was small, but received considerable attention in comparison to other female avant garde filmmakers of her time. As both a gallery artist and a filmmaker, Wieland was able to crossover between those realms and garner attention and support in both. In 1963 Wieland and Snow moved to New York where they lived for ten years. She attracted critical recognition of her work but eventually moved back to Toronto. Wieland later divorced Snow and kept a low profile until her death in 1998 from Alzheimer's disease. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 30, 1930
Deathday: June 27, 1998
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Seminar
1969-01-01
Seminar
Overview: An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael Snow.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Home Movies 1971-81
1985-01-01
Home Movies 1971-81
Overview: Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Sky Socialist
1968-08-31
The Sky Socialist
Overview: 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 a now vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-31
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Back and Forth
1969-05-21
Back and Forth
Overview: A camera moves back and forth at an increasing pace. Back and forth, back and forth...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-21
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A and B in Ontario
1984-01-01
A and B in Ontario
Overview: 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 through the city and eventually made it to the island. We followed each other around. We enjoyed ourselves. We said we were going to make a film about each other - and we did”. 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 shoot each other with cameras.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974-11-05
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
Overview: Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-05
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Knocturne
1968-01-01
Knocturne
Overview: 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 three of my trilogy that started with HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED and ECLIPSE OF THE SUN VIRGIN. It evidently is, since part three never really came out. This seems to look like it could be part three. — GK (anthologyfilmarchives.org)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Standard Time
1967-08-02
Standard Time
Overview: Experimental short in which a camera pans quickly in a small apartment space; Disembodied voices speak of audience engagement.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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Portrait of Snow
2016-12-23
Portrait of Snow
Overview: A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-23
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Wavelength
1967-12-29
Wavelength
Overview: 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 would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. In the first scene two people enter a room, chat briefly, and listen to “Strawberry Fields Forever” on the radio. Later, a man (played by filmmaker Hollis Frampton) enters inexplicably and dies on the floor. And last, the female owner of the apartment is heard and seen on the phone, speaking, with strange calm, about the dead man in her apartment whom she has never seen before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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Water Sark
1965-12-31
Water Sark
Overview: "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 and myself to it. 'The Housewife is High.' Water Sark is a film sculpture, being made while you wait."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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Manual of Arms
1966-12-31
Manual of Arms
Overview: In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary activities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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Zorns Lemma
1970-04-01
Zorns Lemma
Overview: 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 proposition of set theory formulated by mathematician Max Zorn in 1935. Zorns Lemma is prefaced with a reading from an early grammar textbook. The remainder of the film, largely silent, shows the viewer an evolving 24-part "alphabet" (where i & j and u & v are interchanged) which is cycled through, replaced and expanded upon. The film's conclusion shows a man, woman and dog walking through snow as several voices read passages from On Light, or the Ingression of Forms by Robert Grosseteste.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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The Mammal Palace
1968-01-01
The Mammal Palace
Overview: 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 disturbed individuals existing on various levels of an apartment house. Donna Kerness and her husband Hopeton Morris are lurid together and they are also pretty lurid when they're alone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland
1987-09-12
Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland
Overview: 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 homeland, feminism, and ecology. Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland captures the vibrant spirit of this painter, collagist, quilt maker, and filmmaker. In the early '70s, Wieland was involved in filmmaking, producing movies with a political message. In her 30-year career, she worked in a variety of mediums, including cloth, pastels, colored pencil, oils, bronze, and watercolor. Her works and her influence are examined in this detailed video portrait.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-12
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