Joyce Wieland Movies

  • 1969
    Back and Forth

    Back and Forth

    Back and Forth

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

    Back and Forth
  • 1976
    The Far Shore

    The Far Shore

    The Far Shore

    6.41976HD

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

    The Far Shore
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    7.81967HD

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

    Standard Time
  • 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
  • 1964
    Patriotism

    Patriotism

    Patriotism

    41964HD

    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
  • 1972
    Pierre Vallières

    Pierre Vallières

    Pierre Vallières

    21972HD

    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
  • 1969
    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    4.61969HD

    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
  • 1967
    Cat Food

    Cat Food

    Cat Food

    5.31967HD

    A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish.

    Cat Food
  • 1965
    Water Sark

    Water Sark

    Water Sark

    5.11965HD

    "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...

    Water Sark
  • 1968
    Knocturne

    Knocturne

    Knocturne

    91968HD

    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
  • 1986
    Birds at Sunrise

    Birds at Sunrise

    Birds at Sunrise

    4.31986HD

    "The film [Birds at Sunrise] was originally photographed in 1972. Birds from my window were filmed during the winter, through to the spring, with the...

    Birds at Sunrise
  • 1985
    Motel Capri

    Motel Capri

    Motel Capri

    91985HD

    Mother Superior commits murder to save a soul from eternal damnation. Motel Capri was original material improvised as we went along. Scenes were...

    Motel Capri
  • 1966
    The Sky Socialist

    The Sky Socialist

    The Sky Socialist

    01966HD

    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
    1933

    1933

    1933

    3.31967HD

    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
  • 1965
    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

    51965HD

    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