Joyce Wieland Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish.

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...