Joyce Wieland Movies

  • 1986
    Birds at Sunrise

    Birds at Sunrise

    Birds at Sunrise

    31986HD

    "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...

    Birds at Sunrise
  • 1967
    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    Standard Time

    5.51967HD

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

    Standard Time
  • 1967
    Cat Food

    Cat Food

    Cat Food

    51967HD

    A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish.

    Cat Food
  • 1969
    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    Reason Over Passion

    5.81969HD

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

    Reason Over Passion
  • 1968
    Rat Life and Diet in North America

    Rat Life and Diet in North America

    Rat Life and Diet in North America

    5.11968HD

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

    Rat Life and Diet in North America
  • 1984
    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    A and B in Ontario

    5.91984HD

    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...

    A and B in Ontario
  • 1967
    Hand Tinting

    Hand Tinting

    Hand Tinting

    01967HD

    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...

    Hand Tinting
  • 1964
    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    3.71964HD

    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...

    Peggy's Blue Skylight
  • 1964
    Patriotism

    Patriotism

    Patriotism

    41964HD

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

    Patriotism
  • 1967
    Sailboat

    Sailboat

    Sailboat

    4.71967HD

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

    Sailboat
  • 1965
    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

    Barbara’s Blindness

    4.51965HD

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

    Barbara’s Blindness
  • 1967
    Handtinting

    Handtinting

    Handtinting

    31967HD

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

    Handtinting
  • 1963
    Larry's Recent Behaviour

    Larry's Recent Behaviour

    Larry's Recent Behaviour

    3.71963HD

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

    Larry's Recent Behaviour
  • 1964
    Patriotism Part II

    Patriotism Part II

    Patriotism Part II

    41964HD

    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...

    Patriotism Part II
  • 1965
    Water Sark

    Water Sark

    Water Sark

    4.91965HD

    "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...

    Water Sark