Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland

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 into her films, while also playing with the facticity of photographed images. Wieland's output was small, but received considerable attention in comparison to other female avant garde filmmakers of her time. As both a gallery artist and a filmmaker, Wieland was able to crossover between those realms and garner attention and support in both. In 1963 Wieland and Snow moved to New York where they lived for ten years. She attracted critical recognition of her work but eventually moved back to Toronto. Wieland later divorced Snow and kept a low profile until her death in 1998 from Alzheimer's disease. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.

  • Title: Joyce Wieland
  • Popularity: 0.74
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1930-06-30
  • Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada
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Joyce Wieland Movies

  • 1969
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    Seminar

    Seminar

    1 1969 HD

    An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael Snow.

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  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 1968
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    The Sky Socialist

    The Sky Socialist

    1 1968 HD

    Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

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  • 1969
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    Back and Forth

    Back and Forth

    6.8 1969 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    5.9 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

    ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

    7.9 1974 HD

    Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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  • 1968
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    Knocturne

    Knocturne

    1 1968 HD

    The rising moon is the main theme in this short movie of three people and an animal going about their nocturnal rituals. This movie is evidently part...

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  • 1967
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    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    5.5 1967 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    Portrait of Snow

    Portrait of Snow

    1 2016 HD

    A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.

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  • 1967
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    Wavelength

    Wavelength

    5.3 1967 HD

    Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this...

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  • 1965
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    Water Sark

    Water Sark

    4.9 1965 HD

    "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...

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  • 1966
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    Manual of Arms

    Manual of Arms

    5 1966 HD

    In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...

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  • 1970
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    Zorns Lemma

    Zorns Lemma

    6.1 1970 HD

    Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma),...

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  • 1968
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    The Mammal Palace

    The Mammal Palace

    1 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland

    Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland

    1 1987 HD

    Considered one of Canada's most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century, Joyce Wieland's art embodies the essence of her...

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  • 1969
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    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    5.8 1969 HD

    The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

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  • 1969
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    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    5.8 1969 HD

    The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

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  • 1969
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    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    5.8 1969 HD

    The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

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  • 1969
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    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    5.8 1969 HD

    The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

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  • 1969
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    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    5.8 1969 HD

    The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

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  • 1969
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    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    5.8 1969 HD

    The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

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  • 1964
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    New York Eye and Ear Control

    New York Eye and Ear Control

    6.1 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Cat Food

    Cat Food

    5 1967 HD

    A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish.

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  • 1968
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    Rat Life and Diet in North America

    Rat Life and Diet in North America

    5.1 1968 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Sailboat

    Sailboat

    4.7 1967 HD

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

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  • 1986
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    Birds at Sunrise

    Birds at Sunrise

    3 1986 HD

    "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...

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  • 1969
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    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    5.8 1969 HD

    The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated...

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  • 1984
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    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    5.9 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Water Sark

    Water Sark

    4.9 1965 HD

    "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...

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  • 1964
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    Patriotism Part II

    Patriotism Part II

    4 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    Patriotism

    Patriotism

    4 1964 HD

    Patriotism, Part One depicts an army of phallic, bun-clad wieners marching on a vulnerable sleeping white male body, naked save for a sheet.

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  • 1967
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    1933

    1933

    3.3 1967 HD

    The film 1933 made between 1967 and 1968 offers a street scene shot in New York City in the late 1960s from a loft window on the second floor.

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  • 1969
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    Dripping Water

    Dripping Water

    3.2 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Handtinting

    Handtinting

    3 1967 HD

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

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  • 1973
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    Solidarity

    Solidarity

    4.8 1973 HD

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

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  • 1965
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    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

    4.5 1965 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Pierre Vallières

    Pierre Vallières

    2 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    3.7 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    Larry's Recent Behaviour

    Larry's Recent Behaviour

    3.7 1963 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    The Far Shore

    The Far Shore

    6.2 1976 HD

    A young woman marries a wealthy man she isn't in love with, but finds romance instead with the couples' painter friend.

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  • 1967
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    Hand Tinting

    Hand Tinting

    1 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

    1 1967 HD

    "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

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  • 1967
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    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    6 1967 HD

    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

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  • 1976
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    The Far Shore

    The Far Shore

    6.2 1976 HD

    A young woman marries a wealthy man she isn't in love with, but finds romance instead with the couples' painter friend.

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  • 1976
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    The Far Shore

    The Far Shore

    6.2 1976 HD

    A young woman marries a wealthy man she isn't in love with, but finds romance instead with the couples' painter friend.

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