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Joyce Wieland
Director 1930 - 1998

Joyce Wieland

Toronto, Canada

Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) was an experimental filmmaker and artist, whose work challenged and bridged boundaries among avant garde film factions of her time. Her works introduced a kind of manual manipulation of the filmstrip that inscribed an explicitly female craft tradition... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

3 titles
Reason Over Passion

Reason Over Passion

Joyce Wieland 1969 1h 23m

The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated permutations of the film’s title appear like subtitles—the letters are scrambled over and over again, undermining the meaning of Pierre Trudeau's infamous motto.

Rat Life and Diet in North America

Rat Life and Diet in North America

Joyce Wieland 1968 16m

“This film is against the corporate military industrial structure of global village.”

Water Sark

Joyce Wieland 1965 14m

"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 and myself to it. 'The Housewife is High.' Water Sark is a film sculpture, being made while you wait."

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