| Unnatural Causes |
Canda |
1989 |
Maureen Judge |
Through a blend of satire and irony, performance artist Lillian Allen challenges the official postcard-perfect image of social reality in the Canadian urban environment. |
| In Her Chosen Field |
Canada |
1989 |
Barbara Evans |
Farm women share their views on agriculture today while demonstrating how they are organizing to come to grips with the economic and social problems that they face. |
| African Market Women Series:
From the Shore (16 mins)
& Fair Trade (27 mins.) |
Canada |
1990 |
Barbara Doran |
Newfoundland filmmaker Doran traveled to Kenya and Tanzania to film this series on market women who have, through special credit programs, established or expanded their businesses. |
| The Burning Times |
Canada |
1990 |
Donna Read |
Companion film to Goddess Remembered, Read’s latest film is about witch hunts, past and present, and the hidden agenda of the inquisition. This film is a chilling reminder of the women's holocaust and its continuing relevance to contemporary society. |
| In Search of the Last Good Man |
Canada |
1989 |
Peg Campbell |
An animated cut-out of Marilyn Monroe holds a jar of beauty cream. The top pops off and a flock of men led by Charles Atlas flies out. Six girlfriends gather in an expresso bar and as usual the talk turns to men. Suddenly, a stream of men arrives and the Search for the Last Good Man in on. |
| In the House of Sleeping Children |
Canada |
1990 |
Lori Carke, Eva Madden |
A short experimental film that explores aspects of dream image, sleeping and waking. Conceived as part of a larger, performance piece called Dreaming in Houses. Clarke has chosen to work with images of house and body in an attempt to awaken memories that live within them. |
| George and Rosemary |
Canada |
1987 |
Alison Snowden, David Fine |
A warm, whimsical and hilarious animated film about two golden-agers who find passionate romance. |
| Give Us A Smile |
UK |
1983 |
Leeds Animation Workshop |
A witty and challenging film combining fast-moving animation and live action which shows, from one woman’s point of view, the effect of constant harassment which women lives with every day. |
| Out to Lunch |
UK |
1989 |
Leeds Animation Workshop |
Witty and thought provoking, this film, set in a cafe, brings together themes of language and space to show how women’s lives are constrained by male expectations. |
| Five Feminist Minutes |
Canada |
1990 |
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To celebrate its 15th anniversary in 1989, the NFB’s Studio D invited women across Canada to submit film proposals for “snapshots of the world from a feminist perspective”. Each of the 16 films selected were produced independently in collaboration with Studio D, Regards de Femmes and NFB Studios across Canada. |
| Nice Coloured Girls |
Australia |
1987 |
Tracy Moffatt |
This dramatic experimental film focuses on Aboriginal women living in urban Australia. The women practice “picking up a Captain” as a way of getting back at those who oppress them. |
| Black Mother Black Daughter |
Canada |
1989 |
Sylvia Hamilton, Claire Prieto |
Black Mother black Daughter is a moving testament to black women who have struggled for over 200 years to create and maintain a home and community in Nova Scotia. |
| Incident at Restigouche |
Canada |
1984 |
Alanis Obomsawin |
In June 1981, quebec provincial Police raided Restigouche Reserve. The issue-the salmon-fishing rights of the Micmac people. This investigation is a powerful film that puts justice on trial. |
| Older Stronger Wiser |
Canada |
1989 |
Claire Prieto |
Older Stronger Wiser provides important glimpses of what life was like for black women in Canada in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. |
| Toying With Their Future |
Canada |
1990 |
Claire Nadon |
This Studio D production takes a critical look at the toy industry focusing on war games aimed at young boys and sexist dolls and games marketed to young girls. |
| Russian Diary |
|
1989 |
Terri Nash, Bonnie Sherr Klein |
Based on the diary kept by Oscar-winning Nash (If You Love This Planet), when she and Klein were in the USSR shooting a documentary about women in the peace movement, Russian Diary captures the tensions and contradictions of a society on the threshold of change. |
| Rewriting the Script: Feminism in Art in Ontario |
Canada |
1988 |
WARC |
This video explores feminist art and the issues that have had an impact upon women artists. |
| Fragments of a Conversation on Language |
Canada |
1990 |
Nora Alleyn |
Feminist writers address the issue of sexism in our language. |
| Outport Lesbian |
Canada |
1985 |
Cathy Jones |
From her one-woman show “Wedding in Texas”, Jones plays a cheerful lesbian who lives with her parents in a Newfoundland outport. |
| Kate & Anna McGarrigle |
Canada |
1981 |
Caroline Leaf |
Animation and documentary techniques create an easy-going mood for this informal look at these two singer-songwriters. |
| Sweet Sugar Rage |
Jamaica |
1986 |
Honor Ford-Smith, Harclyde Walcott & the Sistren Theatre Collective |
Set against the pulsating beat of reggae, Sweet Sugar Rage is a stark account of the harsh conditions affecting women workers in Jamaican sugarcane fields.
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| Our Daily Bread |
Chile |
1987 |
Gloria Camiruaga |
A tribute to the life of ordinary baker who died at age 22. This video depicts the routineness of disappearance, mutilation and death. |
| With Cold, With Rain, With Heat… |
Chile |
1986 |
C.A.D.A. |
A documentary video about a woman worker in extreme poverty who earns her living by sorting out trash from the bins in the streets. |
| Woman Word |
Chile |
1986 |
Lotty Rosenfeld |
A documentary about street demonstrations by Chilean women in their struggle for the return of democracy. |
