Experimental Films (I)
In this section, films are grouped under the name of the filmmaker. Titles are listed alphabetically under each filmmaker's name.
Programmed Response
8 min. 1978
Programmed Response deals with elements of the urban environment that condition our responses. It focuses on the idea of Pavlovian conditioning and repetition - the repetition of street lights and bus door mechanisms, as well as aspects of media culture, such as classical narrative film, that program responses.
Two for Tea
12 min. 1979
Two for Tea evolves in a text/counter-textual structure that relates tothe narrative/anti-narrative debate of avant-garde film practice, and the issues raised regarding the positioning of the subject in an open or closed text ... The film begins with what appears to be a narrative on the banality of suburban life. Two women share mid-afternoon tea, a common practice in this South Vancouver suburb. This mannered feminine ritual also reveals the women'sexperience as a kind of a trophy ... They politely sip their tea, oblivious to the violence in the world around them or to the specific violation of those of their own gender. By framing the woman's "place" as private rather than public,the film explores this feminine social determination. A TV is used as a formaldevice to deconstruct the narrative's logical, linear coherence and closure.The surreal aspects of the later sequences invite the spectator to take an active part in the production of meaning. (M.I.)
Subject(s): Women
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