Quote:
"Obviously influenced by the work of her husband, painter Mike Snow, Mrs. Wieland [Joyce Wieland] has sought for and achieved an unusual effect. [...] By having her camera jiggle continuously, take pictures at an almost unvarying rate, follow endless miles of uninterrupted landscape, Mrs. Snow [Joyce Wieland] ends up by lulling the viewer completely, creating a feeling of utter, hopeless, unchanging futility. Her picture is in three parts. The first part explores green—all the shades and permutations of green. In the last part it minutely scrutinizes all the possible shades of white. Both sections, through their relentless restlessness, create a feeling of unbearable ennui in the viewer."
-- Jacob Siskind

Source:
Siskind, Jacob. "Joyce Wieland's Reason Over Passion at Loyola Experimental Film Festival." Review of La raison avant la passion. Montreal Gazette, July 4, 1969.