Joyce Wieland

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-06-30 (68 years old)

Deathday

1998-06-27

Place of Birth

Toronto, Canada

Joyce Wieland

Biography

Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) was an experimental filmmaker and artist, whose work challenged and bridged boundaries among avant garde film factions of her time. Her works introduced a kind of manual manipulation of the filmstrip that inscribed an explicitly female craft tradition into her films, while also playing with the facticity of photographed images. Wieland's output was small, but received considerable attention in comparison to other female avant garde filmmakers of her time. As both a gallery artist and a filmmaker, Wieland was able to crossover between those realms and garner attention and support in both. In 1963 Wieland and Snow mov...

Production

1969

1969

1969

1969

Reason Over Passion

as Director of Photography

1967

Cat Food

as Director

1967

Sailboat

as Director

1986

Birds at Sunrise

as Director

1969

1984

1965

Water Sark

as Director

1967

1933

as Director

1964

Patriotism

as Director

1964

1969

Dripping Water

as Director

1973

Solidarity

as Director

1967

Hand Tinting

as Director

1965

1972

1964

1976

The Far Shore

as Director

1967

Bill's Hat

as Director

1976

The Far Shore

as Writer

1976

The Far Shore

as Producer

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