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Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland (June 30, 1931 – June 27, 1998) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist. Joyce Wieland 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.

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Austrian Film Museum: Joyce Wieland

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 15/11/2022 - 10:33

Joyce Wieland (1931–1998) became a pioneer of Canadian experimental film by creating a body of work that perfectly expressed her unconventional and radically personal approach as an artist. When she started off as a painter in the 1950s, she earned her living at an advertising and commercial film studio in Toronto where she became familiar with the medium as would later be mirrored in her own films: like her long-time husband Michael Snow, she studied cinematic perception by focusing on objects from a familiar and inanimate world.
Dates:
Thursday, November 17, 2022 (All day) to Wednesday, November 23, 2022 (All day)
Venue:
Austrian Film Museum - Vienna, Austria
NOTHINGTOSEENESS: All or Nothing

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 30/11/2021 - 06:20

“You cannot apply the principles of painting to a medium that is not painting.” (Paul Sharits).

Film has laws of its own, but along with the other arts in the period around 1960 it searched for certain “zero points” that didn't revolve around nothing, but the whole. This three-part film programme, curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit, includes works from the period between 1958 and 2021 – by Stephanie Barber, Yves-André Delubac, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Lorenzo, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Aldo Tambellini, Joyce Wieland and many more. It also offers rare insight into Gregory Markopoulos’s cinematic life’s work ENIAIOS (1947–91), presented by the film artist Robert Beavers.

Dates:
Saturday, December 4, 2021 - 17:00
Venue:
Akademie der Künste - Berlín, Germany
Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada
Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture’s stories, its memory.

Moments of Perception is a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it maps avant-garde films from the 1950s to the present day, including their contradictions and complexities.
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Books
Publisher:
Goose Lane
Fracto: Expanded Painlevé

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 08/05/2019 - 04:21

The special programme “Expanded Painlevé”, conceived with guest curator Federico Rossin, combines the films of Jean Painlevé, surrealist poet of wildlife, with those by filmmakers from the American and European avant-garde who have pursued different modes of openness to the animal world.
Dates:
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 19:45
Venue:
ACUD Berlin - Berlin , Germany
Walden presents: Joyce Wieland & Amy Taubin

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/04/2019 - 04:05

This film program brings together two very prominent people within the American and Canadian alternative art and film communities. Eminent film critic, underground actress and performance artist Amy Taubin made a few forays into the world of filmmaking, and her most well known work is In the Bag, from 1981. In the words of film scholar and theorist Noël Carroll: «Roughly twenty minutes long, the film records a search through a tattered, patchwork-quilt shoulder bag for something – we know not what.
Dates:
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 18:30
Venue:
Filmhuset, Gärdet - Stockholm, Sweden
Cinémathèque québécoise: Joyce Wieland

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 14/08/2018 - 03:00

As part of the summer cycle Femmes femmes, a dedicated special program to the outstanding contribution of director Joyce Wieland to development of Canadian experimental cinema.
Dates:
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 21:00 to Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 20:55
Venue:
Cinémathèque québécoise - Montréal, Canada
Xcèntric: Female Structural Cinema. Anticipation, Organisation and Repetition

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 10/04/2018 - 09:43

This programme offers a series of structural films made by women, working with the 16 mm film support, interspersing optical resources with material solutions.
Dates:
Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 19:30
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film
Codes for North is a study of the early evolution of the Canadian avant-garde film and its roots in an aesthetic of difficulty. Stephen Broomer traces the evolution of this cinema through the work of three artists—Jack Chambers, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland—from their early development as painters in the 1950s to the creation of their epic films: Reason Over Passion (1969), The Hart of London (1970), and La Region Centrale (1971). Their work formed in response to a strain of Neo-Dada that took root in southern Ontario in the late 1950s.
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Books
Publisher:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Los Angeles Filmforum presents: Classic Films by Joyce Wieland

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 01/08/2017 - 12:28

Long overdue is this retrospective screening of classic experimental films by Joyce Wieland.
Dates:
Sunday, August 6, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian - Los Angeles, United States
Ad Hoc #3: Beautiful Rage

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 17/07/2017 - 10:40

Three milestones of avant-garde filmmaking. Wieland, Brakhage and Sonbert transcend, at least in part, their despair and rage against imperialism, war, violence, and homophobia, through art.

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” (Frankenstein, Mary Shelley)

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against realty." (Lewis Carroll
Dates:
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 19:00 to Friday, August 11, 2017 - 18:55
Venue:
Innis College - Toronto, Canada