Quote:
"[Joyce Wieland's] latest film, Reason over Passion (1969) is her strongest. A description of the film's plan, its argument, suggests an epic form; for she has attempted no less than to cross Canada from ocean to ocean, filming. In the middle of it all, a portrait of [Pierre] Trudeau, the Prime Minister (the title is a phrase from one of his speeches), interrupts the journey. His image has the same reduction to the granular as the optical or the off-the-screen printings of Gehr, Jacobs, and others. The word 'epic' would not apply to the moment by moment experience of the film, which is one of aggressive elongation punctuated by a mild sadness. She does not glorify the land, but seems to mourn for it."
-- P. Adams Sitney

Source:
Sitney, P. Adams. "Structural Film." ["No. 47, Summer 1969; revised, Winter 1969."] In Film Culture Reader, edited by P. Adams Sitney. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. (p. 337)