Joyce Wieland Movies

  • 1967
    1933

    1933

    1933

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    The film 1933 made between 1967 and 1968 offers a street scene shot in New York City in the late 1960s from a loft window on the second floor.

    1933
  • 1972
    Pierre Vallières

    Pierre Vallières

    Pierre Vallières

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    We do not actually see Pierre Vallieres, we see only his lips, his teeth, as he talks in French. English subtitles translate what he says. He speaks...

    Pierre Vallières
  • 2016
    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

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    A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.

    Portrait of Snow
  • 1968
    Knocturne

    Knocturne

    Knocturne

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    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...

    Knocturne
  • 1969
    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

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    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...

    Dripping Water
  • 1968
    The Sky Socialist

    The Sky Socialist

    The Sky Socialist

    01968HD

    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 Sky Socialist
  • 1967
    Sailboat

    Sailboat

    Sailboat

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    A day at the Beach, at the Sea, at the Sky and at the Sailboats.

    Sailboat
  • 1965
    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

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

    Barbara’s Blindness
  • 1964
    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

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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...

    Peggy's Blue Skylight
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

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    Experimental short in which a camera pans quickly in a small apartment space; Disembodied voices speak of audience engagement.

    Standard Time
  • 1969
    Seminar

    Seminar

    Seminar

    01969HD

    An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael Snow.

    Seminar
  • 1964
    Patriotism

    Patriotism

    Patriotism

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    Patriotism, Part One depicts an army of phallic, bun-clad wieners marching on a vulnerable sleeping white male body, naked save for a sheet.

    Patriotism
  • 1967
    Handtinting

    Handtinting

    Handtinting

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    Handtinting, a five-minute silent study of young girls dancing, swimming, and observing one another by Joyce Wieland, […] has a quality that...

    Handtinting
  • 1987
    Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland

    Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland

    Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland

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    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...

    Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland
  • 1967
    Hand Tinting

    Hand Tinting

    Hand Tinting

    01967HD

    A study of poor Black and white girls at a Job Corps center, brought from rural areas to be “educated” in typing. Here you see displaced...

    Hand Tinting