Joyce Wieland
Born: 1930-06-30 in Toronto, Canada
Died: 1998-06-27
Known For: Directing
Biography
Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) 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. Wieland's output was small, but received considerable attention in comparison to other female avant garde filmmakers of her time. As both a gallery artist and a filmmaker, Wieland was able to crossover between those realms and garner attention and support in both. In 1963 Wieland and Snow moved to New York where they lived for ten years. She attracted critical recognition of her work but eventually moved back to Toronto. Wieland later divorced Snow and kept a low profile until her death in 1998 from Alzheimer's disease. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.
Filmography
2016
- Portrait of Snow as Herself
1987
- Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland as Self
1986
- Birds at Sunrise ... (Director)
1985
1984
1976
- The Far Shore ... (Director)
1973
- Solidarity ... (Director)
1972
- Pierre Vallières ... (Director)
1970
1969
- Reason Over Passion ... (Music)
- Back and Forth
- Seminar
- Dripping Water ... (Director)
1968
- Rat Life and Diet in North America ... (Director)
- The Mammal Palace
- The Sky Socialist as Love's Labor
- Knocturne
1967
- Wavelength
- For Life, Against the War ... (Director)
- Bill's Hat ... (Director)
- Sailboat ... (Director)
- Hand Tinting ... (Director)
- Standard Time
- Cat Food ... (Director)
- 1933 ... (Director)
1966
1965
- Water Sark
- Barbara’s Blindness ... (Director)
1964
- New York Eye and Ear Control ... (Co-Director)
- Patriotism ... (Director)
- Peggy's Blue Skylight ... (Director)
- Patriotism Part II ... (Director)
1963
- Larry's Recent Behaviour ... (Director)