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Joyce Wieland

Pays : Canada
Née : 1931
Décédée : 1998

Films réalisés par Joyce Wieland

Citations de Joyce Wieland [en anglais]

« Certain Canadian critics have not yet discovered that the profound interaction of foreground and background creates the film's visual totality. D.W. Griffith, Bresson and Vigo have been sources of inspiration for my films. And I think that this runs contrary to the values of the current Hollywood and Canadian film industries. »
-- Joyce Wieland (source)

« I really think there is a female aesthetic. [...] It feels different to be a woman, so naturally the films are going to be different. »
-- Joyce Wieland (source)

« They [projectionists in New York] ran my films with others about a month ago in a Bleeker Street film house. They ran them upside down, the sound was all wrong and it was all so bad that the man who arranged the program stopped the films and gave the audience its money back. »
-- Joyce Wieland (source)

« When Anthology Films came into existence in New York, which was a place to collect classics of the New Cinema as well as world cinema, the founders of it were the same men who judged which films were classics and which weren't. Naturally they got a selection of the male Structuralists and didn't choose any films made by women. Since their policy was never to give out reasons of choice or rejection, I never had a clue, and had to surmise that none of my works were classics. [...] The whole thing I am talking about made me very strong because I left it behind. It is no different than what has happened to many other women. It is really a wonder that any women filmmakers have managed to survive. »
-- Joyce Wieland (source)

Citations sur Joyce Wieland [en anglais]

« I was so struck by the way Joyce [Wieland's] films stayed alive. They have a conceptual richness that can't be ascribed to just one historical moment. There's a humor that runs through her work, but also a sense of excess and exuberance—a joy in the body, in flesh and in light. »
-- Kay Armatage (source)

« To a hermetic art scene that was characterized by a 'subjectless' attention to the materiality of the medium—sprocket holes, zoom lenses, static shots, duration, and time—[Joyce] Wieland brought irreverence, painterly intensity, humour, and politics. »
-- Kay Armatage (source)

« Despite her critical and interpersonal entanglements in the structural film initiative, [Joyce] Wieland characteristically fashioned an idiosyncratic position that could simultaneously borrow from, critique, and transcend stylistic prerogatives identified with each camp. »
-- Paul Arthur (source)

« Using cinema as a means of personal expression within the canonized structural film movement, [Joyce] Wieland developed a uniquely feminist lexicon that addressed women's views, experiences and voices. She infused the often modernist or minimalist concerns of the avant-garde with what has come to be known and designated as the feminine. »
-- Kass Banning (source)

« Joyce Wieland's films elude easy categorization. The body of work as a whole is varied—there are films of a formal nature, and others which are less so. Several are political, concerned with technology, ecology, and her native land, Canada. Her films are informed by her involvement in other, more directly tactile art forms—painting, drawing, construction—and in crafts such as quilting. »
-- Regina Cornwell (source)

« The relaxation of the rigours of structural filmmaking in [Joyce] Wieland's films is indicated in the way her work often includes anecdotes, symbols and sentimental references. More important still is her use of diverse materials, including representational imagery, written texts and surface infractions—patterns created by perforating the film. »
-- R. Bruce Elder (source)

« The films of Joyce Wieland, the well known Canadian artist and filmmaker, were repetitious and generally excruciatingly boring for the majority of the audience [at a conference on women in film and video]. But Wieland feels, a la Gertrude Stein, that there is no such thing as repetition. There is always something new to experience—an interesting theoretical point which may obviously break down in practice. »
-- Barbara M. Finkleman (source)

« The artist Joyce Wieland talks about finding her voice as a woman while living in New York in the 1960s, where the art world was very male dominated and intellectual. 'I found this very troubling,' she remembers. 'The message was that if women wanted to be taken seriously as artists, we had to deny our experience and identity as women.' Once she recognized this conflict, she began to search for ways to make her femininity part of her work. 'I made a film about being trapped in a kitchen. Then I began to work in cloth. By introducing these elements of domesticity, I was desperately attempting to legitimize my work in terms of my own experience.' »
-- Judith Finlayson (source)

« In her films of the Canadian landscape, in her quilts made up of patriotic emblems and slogans, in her embroidery pieces related to Canadian history, [Joyce Wieland] is now moving into position as the visual poet of 1970s Canadian nationalism. »
-- Robert Fulford (source)

« [Joyce] Wieland's complete filmic archives were donated to the Cinémathèque québécoise following her death in 1998. With her film distributor, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution [Centre] (CFMDC), a DVD compilation entitled The Complete Works of Joyce Wieland was produced in 2011 that brings together sixteen shorts and two feature films that Wieland produced in her lifetime. As an unfinished film, Wendy and Joyce is not among these eighteen films, but a rough assembly and some disparate film and sound elements labelled 'Wendy and Joyce' are housed at the Cinémathèque, while her paper-based notes and sound elements are held in the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University. »
-- Monika Kin Gagnon (source)

« An internationally acclaimed painter and filmmaker, [Joyce Wieland] was the first female living artist to have a solo show at the National Gallery of Canada and at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Wieland was a major figure in the avant-garde film scene of the 1960s and '70s and, together with Michael Snow, was one of the founders of Canadian experimental cinema. She may also be the first underground filmmaker to make the transition to the commercial film industry and was certainly only one of a handful of women feature-film directors in Canada at that time. »
-- Barbara Goslawski (source)

« Scholarship on [Joyce] Wieland's films tends to only hint at the question of address and multiplicity of voice in her work, which is mostly due to how these interpretations focus solely on works of her performance in front or behind the camera, as opposed to examining her feminist praxis, her creative process, her role play that happens on and off camera, in and out of the studio and into real life. »
-- Maryse. C. Larivière (source)

« [Joyce] Wieland's work as a filmmaker is complex. Her irony carries with it no edge of cynicism, her feminism is unabashedly celebratory and her vision at times can be unnervingly naïve [...]. Yet, she in no way conceded to the narrow definitions of what it was to be an artist in her era. Her 'celebration of the personal' and yearning to positively commune with others suggests a radicalism that extends far beyond the values of her time. »
-- Anne Low (source)

« By deliberately choosing to glorify the materials accessible to the shut-in housewife, [Joyce] Wieland has found a space to breathe. Cats, mice, the kitchen table and sink, teacups and teapots are all a part of her repertoire. Wearing the nametags that have been lavished upon her—most significantly, 'the ultimate feminine artist'—Wieland admits that domestic trappings have provided a strength for her work. »
-- Debbie Magidson and Judy Wright (source)

« Consistently employing materials and themes linked to the private sphere of women's experiences, Joyce Wieland's films introduce the identity politic so crucial to the exploration of sexual difference in feminist films of the 1970s and 1980s. »
-- Janine Marchessault (source)

« [Joyce Wieland] is in Toronto for a retrospective of her work at York University's Glendon College. She also showed several of her films—Catfood, Sailboat, 1933 and Rat Life and Diet in North America—at a screening at Film House this week. They're not the kind of films you'd expect from a woman. They're funny and political, the sort of thing a Frank Zappa or an Andy Warhol might come up with. And they reveal her intense concern about the state the world is in. »
-- Melinda McCracken (source)

« Unlike some of the work within [the experimental film] tradition, [Joyce] Wieland does not resort to pure abstraction, to a complete denial of reference. Nor, however, does she surrender to mainstream expression. Wieland's self-reflexivity is not only a 'device' to explore the nature of cinema. She makes the viewer aware of the filmmaking process in order to sharpen perception for a greater end. Wieland's work is indeed about film, but also considers concrete political issues. It is not a cinema only of itself; it is rather a cinema that is aware of the society that gave it birth. »
-- Lianne M. McLarty (source)

« Can story line find its place in abstract film-making? There is no reason why it should not, if the film-maker wants it. Plot frequently offers something for the mind to cling to after the heightened impressions of abstract film have vanished. Joyce Wieland, of Toronto and New York, joins the two types of expression in a unique way, as film devotees learned last night during her discussing and showing of her films as part of the Museum of Art Film Section's continuing program in Carnegie Lecture Hall. »
-- Donald Miller (source)

« Joyce Wieland's reputation in this country [the United Kingdom] rests largely on two 'structural' films she made in the '60s—1933 and Sailboat—which have since become classics of that mode of film-making. [...] So Canada House's recent retrospective of her film-work 'In Search of the Far Shore,' curated by Simon Field, provided a unique opportunity to see and to assess a substantial amount of work previously available in this country. »
-- Michael O'Pray (source)

« Joyce Wieland is deeply disturbed about U.S. financial interests in her native Canada, and it shows in her films. A guest of the Independent Filmmakers Series at Carnegie Institute, Miss Wieland showed and discussed three of her works at Carnegie Lecture Hall last night. »
-- Maggie Patterson (source)

« Joyce Wieland's films are among the most endearing I have ever seen, making her point and sealing the issue in a womanly way without any concern for ragged edges. La Raison avant la Passion is a whirlwind view of Canada with an anti-dialectical premise. Rat Life and Diet in North America is a very funny film, way beyond satire; her images are improbable, ironically accurate, and heartwarming. What will her big features be like? »
-- Douglas Pringle (source)

« Kay Armatage's 1987 documentary film about Joyce Wieland feels like a giant bear hug. Artist on Fire: The Work of Joyce Wieland is a warm, insightful and loving portrait of a passionate, creative and daring woman. Weaving together excerpts from her experimental films, interviews with her contemporaries and friends and candid shots of the artist puttering around her apartment or making paintings, Ms. Armatage reveals the incredible spirit, diversity and commitment of Ms. Wieland without elevating her to untouchable art-goddess status. The 55-minute film is being shown at the Princess Court Cinema on Monday night as the second part of a screening of films honoring [Joyce Wieland's] three-day stay in Kingston as a Queen's University visiting scholar in art and film. »
-- Jennie Punter (source)

« By exploring relationships between language, text and image, by increasingly using that relationship for exploring narrativity, [Joyce] Wieland's development in experimental films prefigures the cinematic work of such feminist filmmakers as Yvonne Rainer and Babette Mangolte. Wieland's films offer feminist solutions for integrating materials, processes and themes that resolutely emphasize formal manipulations of subjective screen space, point of view and temporality. Through its exploration of political, formal and conceptual options, Wieland's work becomes an important link in the feminist artistic heritage. »
-- Lauren Rabinovitz (source)

« In her cinematic explorations from 1965 to 1968, [Joyce] Wieland uses familiar elements from her earlier work: repetition, sensuous colors, textures, and tones in order to examine the trappings of domesticity—household pets, the kitchen table, dishes, and a fixed view of the street outside one's window. The loop printing and slight variations emphasize specific details as the movements recur so that the incomplete actions never extend beyond the frame to illusionistic off-screen space. Without completed actions creating any sense of spatial depth, the frame forms the parameters of activity and forces an acknowledgement of the image as two-dimensional. Wieland's superimposed on-screen lettering further fixes the image as a flat rectangle of colors, shapes, and implied textures organized around a central space. Thus, the early structural films parallel and develop the peculiar magnified point-of-view, focus on detail, voluptuous expressive tones, and central spatial organization that Wieland first exhibited in [her 1961 painting] Balling. »
-- Lauren Rabinovitz (source)

« [In Pierre Vallières (1972), Joyce] Wieland focuses entirely on the lips of an eloquent separatist, echoing and expanding her paintings of lips, several of which (West 4th, 1963) in themselves echoed film strips. In fact, her oeuvre is notable for its wholeness. Those circles and lips (and those circular lips) can be found not only in the paintings and in Pierre Vallières, but in the other films as well—in the feature The Far Shore (1976), when the hero and heroine silently mouth words to each other through magnifying glasses, and in Water Sark (1965), where domestic items on a kitchen table are presented with reverence and are filmed through glasses of water, and in Reason over Passion (1969), in which Wieland mouths the national anthem, and most of all in Birds at Sunrise (shot in 1972, completed in 1986), which literally sees through a circle—Wieland photographed birds through cardboard tubes [...] and in the process exalted them, both sensually and spiritually, in a fashion that recalls O'Keefe's canonization of flowers. »
-- Jay Scott (source)

« Joyce Wieland's films gather together what matters—matters of heart, home and country, in a language of flesh and of roses, a language of love. Her concern is to make an ecological vision, one that has respect for all things, what matters: plant matter, animals, people, history, politics, art, the landscape itself. »
-- Leila Sujir (source)

« One truth [Joyce Wieland's] films came to share with the experimental filmmakers of the mid-1960s is that the film viewer's position is the paradoxical one of the intimate outsider. Wieland often explores this outsider's place in the film process, as she does for example with the close-up mirrored mise en scène of Water Sark (1964-1965) and the shot/countershot flow of A and B in Ontario (shot in the 1960s but only completed in 1984). But just as Wieland often prefers to border her serial works dealing with disasters with a soft, tactile frame, her films often emphasize the frame line to help position the spectator outside the spectacle. This is not so much an exclusion as it is a welcoming into intimacy on this side of the viewfinder. »
-- Bart Testa (source)

« Critics have responded to the films of Joyce Wieland with a remarkable variety of partisan intensities and conceptual perspectives. One premise consistently appears, however, if only as a disclaimer: Wieland as enigma and contradiction. »
-- Michael Zyrd (source)

Pour lire les CITATIONS sur un film spécifique de Joyce Wieland, veuillez voir :   Tea in the Garden    A Salt in the Park    Patriotism, Part I    Water Sark    Barbara's Blindness    Handtinting    Cat Food    Sailboat    Bill's Hat    1933    Rat Life and Diet in North America    Dripping Water    La raison avant la passion    Pierre Vallières    Solidarity    The Far Shore    A and B in Ontario    Birds at Sunrise   

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Section 2 : Publications sur Joyce Wieland

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Section 3 : Publications sur les films de Joyce Wieland

A Salt in the Park (1959)

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Patriotism, Part I (1964)  (autre titre : "Patriotism 1")

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Water Sark (1965)

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Barbara's Blindness (1965)

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Patriotism, Part II (1965)  (autre titre : "Patriotism 2")

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Handtinting (1967)  (autre titre : "Hand Tinting")

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Sailboat (1967)

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Bill's Hat (1967)

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1933 (1967)

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Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)

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La raison avant la passion (1969)  (autre titre : "Reason over Passion")

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Pierre Vallières (1972)

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Solidarity (1973)

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The Far Shore (1976)  (autres titres : "L'autre rive", "True Patriot Love")

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A and B in Ontario (1984)

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