Joyce Wieland Movies

  • 1967
    Cat Food

    Cat Food

    Cat Food

    51967HD

    A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish.

    Cat Food
  • 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
  • 1973
    Solidarity

    Solidarity

    Solidarity

    4.81973HD

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

    Solidarity
  • 1984
    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    5.91984HD

    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...

    A and B in Ontario
  • 1968
    The Mammal Palace

    The Mammal Palace

    The Mammal Palace

    01968HD

    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...

    The Mammal Palace
  • 1963
    Larry's Recent Behaviour

    Larry's Recent Behaviour

    Larry's Recent Behaviour

    3.71963HD

    One of Joyce Wieland's earliest works, shot in 8mm and finally blown-up to 16mm, “Larry’s Recent Behaviour” has been described by...

    Larry's Recent Behaviour
  • 1986
    Birds at Sunrise

    Birds at Sunrise

    Birds at Sunrise

    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
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    5.51967HD

    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

    3.71964HD

    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 Part II

    Patriotism Part II

    Patriotism Part II

    41964HD

    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...

    Patriotism Part II
  • 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
  • 1965
    Water Sark

    Water Sark

    Water Sark

    4.91965HD

    "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
  • 1965
    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

    4.51965HD

    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
  • 1967
    Sailboat

    Sailboat

    Sailboat

    4.71967HD

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

    Sailboat
  • 1967
    Handtinting

    Handtinting

    Handtinting

    31967HD

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

    Handtinting