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The complete works of Joyce Wieland. Volume 2, Shorts 1967-69 [videorecording].

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FilmPublication details: Toronto, ON : Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, c2011.Description: 1 videodisc (52 min., 27 sec.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title:

Shorts 1967-69
Complete works of Joyce Wieland, 1963-1986

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Summary: 1933. The film offers a street scene shot in New York City in the late 1960s from a loft window on the second floor. This shot, filmed mostly in fast motion but occasionally slowed to normal speed, is repeated in its entirety 10 times and is accompanied by dissonant raucous music, evoking the silent-film-like humour in fast motion human movement.Summary: "Sailboat has the simplicity of a child's drawing. A toy-like image of a sailboat sails without interruption on the water, to the sound of roaring waves, which seems to underline the image to the point of exaggeration, somewhat in the way a child might draw a picture of water and write word sounds on it to make it as emphatic as possible. The little image is interrupted at one point by a huge shoulder appearing briefly in the left-hand corner." --CFMDC website.Summary: Cat food. "A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish. The projector devours the ribbon of film at the same rate, methodically. The lay of Grimnir mentions a wild boar whose magical flesh was nightly devoured by the heroes of Valhalla, and miraculously regenerated next morning in the kitchen. The fish in Wieland's film, and the miraculous flesh of the film itself, are reconstructed on the rewinds to be devoured again. Here is a dionysian metaphor, old as the West, of immense strength. Once we see that the fish is the protagonist of the action, this metaphor reverberates to incandescence in the mind." -- Hollis FramptonSummary: Handtinting. "The apt title of a film made from outtakes from a Job Corps documentary which features hand-tinted sections. The film is full of small movements and actions, gestures begun and never completed. Repeated images, sometimes in colour, sometimes not. A beautifully realized type of chamber-music film whose sum-total feeling is ritualistic." -- Robert Cowan, Take OneSummary: Rat life and diet in North America. "I can tell you that Wieland's film holds. It may be about the best (or richest) political movie around. It's all about rebels (enacted by real rats) and police (enacted by real cats). After long suffering under the cats, the rats break out of prison and escape to Canada. There they take up organic gardening, with no DDT in the grass. It is a parable, a satire, an adventure movie, or you can call it pop art or any art you want - I find it one of the most original films made recently." -- Jonas MekasSummary: Dripping water. "You see nothing but a white, crystal white plate, and water dripping into the plate, from the ceiling, from high, and you hear the sound of the water dripping. The film is ten minutes long. I can imagine only St. Francis looking at a water plate and water dripping so lovingly, so respectfully, so serenely. The usual reaction is: "Oh, what is it anyhow? Just a plate of water dripping." But that is a snob remark. That remark has no love for the world, for anything. Snow and Wieland's film uplifts the object, and leaves the viewer with a finer attitude toward the world around him; it can open his eyes to the phenomenal world. And how can you love people if you don't love water, stone, glass?" -- Jonas Mekas.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-01999 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1605018173X

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

Originally released as motion pictures 1967-69.

1933 (1967, 3:50) -- Sailboat (1967, 2:45) -- Cat food (1967, 13:30) -- Handtinting (1967-68, 6:00) -- Rat life and diet in North America (1968, 16:00) -- Dripping water / Joyce Wieland, Michael Snow (1969, 10:22)

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