A&B in Ontario dir. Joyce Wieland and Hollis Frampton, Canada 1984, 16mm, 16 min.
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La Raison Avant La Passion dir. Joyce Wieland, Canada 1969, 16mm, 80 min
A Canadian road trip and Pierre Trudeau's titular political motto provide the framework for Joyce Wieland's groundbreaking exploration of landscape, language and national identity. A journey from east coast to west coast, punctuated by an ambiguous portrait of the country's next prime minister, captures changing days and seasons at the same time as subverting the traditional travelogue and expanding the possibilities of structuralist film.
"Joyce Wieland’s rarely screened 1969 masterpiece is a neglected landmark of avant-garde film." – Fred Camper
A&B in Ontario dir. Joyce Wieland and Hollis Frampton, Canada 1984, 16mm, 16min
In 1967, Joyce Wieland and Hollis Frampton documented a holiday in Toronto by using Bolex wind-up cameras to play a game of hide-and-seek. Seventeen years later, Wieland, having been sent Frampton's reel after his death, assembled and edited the footage. The result is a lighthearted portrait of both filmmakers, whose often-mirrored point-of-view shots move from domestic spaces into the city and then the waterfront.
"We followed each other around. We enjoyed ourselves. We said we were going to make a film about each other, and we did." – Joyce Wieland
Total runtime: 96 min.
A Canadian road trip and Pierre Trudeau's titular political motto provide the framework for Joyce Wieland's groundbreaking exploration of landscape, language and national identity. A journey from east coast to west coast, punctuated by an ambiguous portrait of the country's next prime minister, captures changing days and seasons at the same time as subverting the traditional travelogue and expanding the possibilities of structuralist film.
"Joyce Wieland’s rarely screened 1969 masterpiece is a neglected landmark of avant-garde film." – Fred Camper
A&B in Ontario dir. Joyce Wieland and Hollis Frampton, Canada 1984, 16mm, 16min
In 1967, Joyce Wieland and Hollis Frampton documented a holiday in Toronto by using Bolex wind-up cameras to play a game of hide-and-seek. Seventeen years later, Wieland, having been sent Frampton's reel after his death, assembled and edited the footage. The result is a lighthearted portrait of both filmmakers, whose often-mirrored point-of-view shots move from domestic spaces into the city and then the waterfront.
"We followed each other around. We enjoyed ourselves. We said we were going to make a film about each other, and we did." – Joyce Wieland
Total runtime: 96 min.
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