Political Advant-Garde
This filmmaking technique takes preexisting materials and recombines them to expose the underlying ideology of the originals.
What is détournment?
This Ontario-based cooperative helped distribute and exhibit Canadian experimental films in the 1980s.
What is the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)?
This animation pioneer created a film that involved manipulating found footage into a surreal stop-motion piece, described as an animated Dadaist film.
Name & Director
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What is Heaven and Earth Magic by Harry Smith?
This 1990 film by Su Friedrich uses autobiographical narratives to critique patriarchal structures.
What is Sink or Swim?
Known for works blending documentary and personal subjectivity, this loosely-knit group of filmmakers emerged from Sheridan College.
What is the Escarpment School?
This filmmaker critiqued traditional relationships by blending home movie aesthetics with a montage of romantic couples in Covert Action (1984).
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Who is Abigail Child?
This 1984 film by Abigail Child uses flashing images and vacation footage to critique gender roles and leisure inequality.
What is Covert Action?
This 1982 film by Richard Kerr reflects on the renovation of a canal and his youthful memories.
What is Canal?
This 1983 Escarpment School film documents road trips and reflections on encounters, recorded over six years. Name & Director
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What is The Road at the Beach by Philip Hoffman?
This feminist experimental practice challenges patriarchal norms through montage and experimental narrative styles.
What is feminist avant-garde filmmaking?
Barbara Sternberg’s 1979 film showcases her signature use of superimposition and layered imagery.
What is Opus 40?
In his abstract film Allures (1961), this filmmaker used optical printing and re-photography to create a visual expression of music that resembles digital animation.
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Who is Jordan Belson?
Leslie Thornton critiques traditional gender roles through commercial imagery in this trilogy.
What is The Suburban Trilogy?
This 2015 work by Mike Hoolboom highlights children with mental disabilities but was delayed in being shared with its intended audience.
What is Scrapbook?
This term describes the avant-garde technique of making familiar material appear strange to provoke critical thinking in the audience.
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What is "making strange"?