Joyce Wieland Movies

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

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),...

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...

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

A young woman marries a wealthy man she isn't in love with, but finds romance instead with the couples' painter friend.

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

About a strike in which women are involved, but told in a very different way.

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...

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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

A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish.

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

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

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...