Joyce Wieland

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.

Directed

1. Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968) — Director
2. Water Sark (1965) — Director
3. Cat Food (1967) — Director
4. Sailboat (1967) — Director
5. A and B in Ontario (1967) — Director
6. Reason Over Passion (1969) — Director
7. Solidarity (1973) — Director
8. The Far Shore (1976) — Director
9. Patriotism (1964) — Director
10. Dripping Water (1969) — Director
11. Birds at Sunrise (1986) — Director
12. Patriotism Part II (1964) — Director
13. 1933 (1967) — Director
14. Barbara’s Blindness (1965) — Director
15. Peggy's Blue Skylight (1964) — Director
16. Larry's Recent Behaviour (1963) — Director
17. Hand Tinting (1967) — Director
18. Pierre Vallières (1972) — Director
19. For Life, Against the War (1967) — Director
20. Bill's Hat (1967) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Wavelength (1967)
2. Zorns Lemma (1970)
3. Manual of Arms (1966)
4. Back and Forth (1969)
5. Water Sark (1965)
6. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)
7. A and B in Ontario (1967)
8. Standard Time (1967)
9. Knocturne (1968)
10. The Mammal Palace (1968)
11. Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland (1987) — Self
12. Seminar (1969)
13. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
14. The Sky Socialist (1966) — Love's Labor
15. Portrait of Snow (2016) — Herself