Rat Life And Diet In North America

Rat Life And Diet In North America

16mm, color, sound, 16 min
"A band of revolutionary gerbils escape their cat jailors and journey up the Hudson, where they hide out at a millionare's estate and perfect their tactics as guerilla fighters. It has some hard-to ...
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"A band of revolutionary gerbils escape their cat jailors and journey up the Hudson, where they hide out at a millionare's estate and perfect their tactics as guerilla fighters. It has some hard-to -forget, singular images:Ome, captioned 'Skag Mitchell was the first to escape' shows a grimy bare sction of floorboards with the tiny gerbil hovering against the wall. Miss Wieland is more than a diary-like recorder of domestic enthusiasms." Manny Farber "I can tell you that Wieland's film holds. It may be aobut the best (or richest) political movie around. It's all about rebels (enacted by real rats) and police (enacted by real cats). After a long suffering under the cats, the rats break out of the prison (in a full scale rebellion) and escape to Canada. There they take up organic gardening, with no DDT in the grass. It is a parable, a satire, an adventure movie, or you can call it pop art or any art you want- I find it one of the most original films made recently" Jonas Mekas

Programs

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    Songs of the Unsung

    A Joyce Wieland double feature presented by David Schwartz

    The first installment of David Schwartz’s new bimonthly series “Songs of the Unsung,” featuring great but neglected films in the FMC collection, focuses on the formally inventive, playful, politically engaged, sensuous, and wryly comic work of Canadian artist and filmmaker Joyce Wieland.

Films

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    Patriotism
    Experimental

    Patriotism
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, color, sound, 4 min
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    Water Sark
    Experimental

    Water Sark
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, color, sound on separate reel(s), 14 min
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    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Arts / Artists
    • Biography / Autobiography
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    Barbara's Blindness
    Experimental

    Barbara's Blindness
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, black and white, sound, 17 min
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    1933
    Experimental

    1933
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, color, sound, 4 min
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    • History
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    Hand Tinting
    Experimental

    Hand Tinting
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, color, silent, 6 min
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    • Found Footage
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    Sailboat
    Experimental

    Sailboat
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, color, sound, 3 min
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    • Environment / Nature
    • Minimal / Conceptual
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    Catfood
    Experimental

    Catfood
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, color, sound, 13 min
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    • Structural
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    La Raison Avant La Passion
    Experimental

    La Raison Avant La Passion
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, color, sound, 80 min
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    • Landscape / Architecture
    • Environment / Nature
    • Ethnographic
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    Dripping Water
    Experimental

    Dripping Water
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, black and white, sound, 11 min
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    • Spiritual / Mystical
    • Minimal / Conceptual
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    Pierre Vallieres
    Experimental

    Pierre Vallieres
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, color, sound, 33 min
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    • History
    • Political / Social Activism
    • Biography / Autobiography
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    A & B In Ontario
    Experimental

    A & B In Ontario
    Joyce Wieland

    16mm, black and white, sound, 16 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists