A Mirror Avant-Garde
Films
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ExperimentalPeyote Queen
Storm De Hirsch16mm, color, sound, 9 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file - Read More
ExperimentalThe Scary Movie
Peggy Ahwesh16mm, color, sound, 9 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
DocumentaryExperimentalBaby Doll
Tessa Hughes-Freeland16mm, black and white, sound, 5 minRental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalNoyes
Bette Gordon16mm, color, sound, 4 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalAbstraction
Rosalind Schneider16mm, color, sound, 8 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalMutiny
Abigail Child16mm, color, sound, 9.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
DocumentaryExperimentalAll Women Are Equal
Marguerite Parisblack and white, sound, 15 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalWhat Is A Man?
Sara-Kathryn Arledge16mm, color, sound, 10 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalHearts, Chains And Flowers
Silvianna Goldsmith16mm, color, sound, 8 minRental format: 16mm
Description
If you’ve seen more than three of the films in this program, we’d be surprised. Yet every single one of these films by women filmmakers deserves to be written about, taught in classes, and be part of the canon of avant-garde film.
An important thematic thread running through this program is artists’ incorporation of various kinds of mirrors, both material and metaphoric. Mirrors reverse, distort, and reflect ourselves and our culture back to us in unexpected ways – and have been crucial to thinking about how we look and how we’re looked at. Programmed by Tess Takahashi.
BIOGRAPHY:
Tess Takahashi is a Toronto-based writer, researcher, and programmer, who focuses on experimental moving image arts. She has been Scholar-in-Residence at Canyon Cinema in 2016 and Film-Makers’ Cooperative in 2015, and is a member of the editorial collective of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. She may be reached at Tess.Takahashi@gmail.com