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| Directed by Joyce Wieland |
| Canada, 1973 (experimental, 11 minutes, colour) |
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| Image: © Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre |
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Film Description: "The film is composed primarily of images of the feet of people marching on a strike-bound plant, filmed with a hand-held camera, with the word 'solidarity' superimposed into the middle of the screen. The soundtrack presents the off-screen voice of one of the strike leaders." -- R. Bruce Elder (source) |
"Because the voice on the soundtrack [of Solidarity] emanates from an off-screen space,
and because the field of view is confined within very narrow limits, the
spectator becomes acutely aware of space beyond the edge of the frame."
-- R. Bruce Elder
(source)
"Joyce Wieland, Toronto artist, squatted in the grass to photograph the tellingly assorted feet of people milling in front of a strikebound biscuit-manufacturing plant to catch her 11-minute color film. Solidarity: a child's dangling sneakered foot, dirty blistered heels in sling pumps, polished oxfords, scuffed lumberjack boots and finally, the aristocratic paws of a dog."
-- Kay Kritzwiser
(source)
"Similar to her earlier works, [in Solidarity] [Joyce] Wieland selects a series of details seen isolated from any depth-of-field and seen so closely that colours, textures and shapes become interesting features in and of themselves. [...] The often shaky hand-held camera offers an identifiable subjective point of view of someone in the crowd, the filmmaker, watching people's feet."
-- Lauren Rabinovitz
(source)
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