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The complete works of Joyce Wieland. Volume 1, Shorts 1963-65 [videorecording].

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Material type: Film

FilmPublication details: Toronto, ON : Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, c2011.Description: 1 videodisc (66 min., 20 sec.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title:

Shorts 1963-65
Complete works of Joyce Wieland, 1963-1986

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Summary: Larry's recent behaviour. One of Joyce Wieland's earliest works, shot in 8mm and finally blown-up to 16mm, it has been described by Simon Field as an "irreverent and wilfully juvenile examination" of a nasty habit that Larry has recently acquired.Summary: Peggy's blue skylight. 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 day to dawn the next day. The soundtrack was done by Paul Blay. The 16mm film is a blow-up of grainy 8mm stock.Summary: Patriotism. Wieland's kinetic romp casts David Shackman as an overexposed sleeper dogged by a patriotic march of tube steaks that finally refigures him as our most familiar icon of freedom. Patriotism Part II. 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 finally gathering together in a ball.Summary: Barbara's blindness. "There is no one named Barbara to be found; a pair of mysterious blind-person's hands (looking suspiciously like Wieland's) make only one cameo appearance to 'read' us the title; yet these seemingly incongruous elements provide the perfect introduction to the ironic humour of the film itself. The main source of the film seems to be an old grade-school morality-movie on the appreciation of eyesight, starring golden-haired Mary, who finds herself temporarily blind, and a leaden-voiced narrator, who finds himself our unwitting straight-man. The filmmakers re-edited this curiosity and intercut it with other stock footage of disasters, agricultural techniques, and monster movies, to create a very different object lesson on the nature of vision." -- B. Ruby RichSummary: Water sark. 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. "Water Sark" is a film sculpture, being made while you wait. (JW)

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Course reserves
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	Reserves	DVD-01998 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050181721	Community/Identity W Winter 2023

Issued as part of a 5-disc boxed set titled: The complete works of Joyce Wieland, 1963-1986.

Originally released as motion pictures 1963-65.

Larry's recent behaviour (1963, 16:35) -- Peggy's blue skylight (1964, 12:15) -- Patriotism (1964, 4:00) -- Patriotism Part II (1965, 3:45) -- Barbara's blindness / Joyce Wieland and Betty Ferguson (1965, 16:15) -- Water sark (1965, 13:30).

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The complete works of Joyce Wieland. Volume 1, Shorts 1963-65 [videorecording].