Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland (* June 30, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, † June 27, 1998 ibid ) was a Canadian avant-garde film director, experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist.

Life and work

Joyce Wieland first studied art at the Central Tech School in Toronto. After a trip to Europe, she started a job as a film animator and met her husband and colleagues know the Canadian artist Michael Snow.

Joyce Wieland had her first solo exhibition at the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto in 1960, she was one of the first female artists, who was represented by a contemporary Canadian commercial gallery.

In 1963, Wieland and Snow moved to New York City and lived there for ten years. After a robbery and an attempted rape to Joyce the two moved back to Toronto.

Joyce Wieland was with two films: represent New American Cinema: Reason Over Passion / La raison avant la passion and Sailboat as a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department of Film Acting.

Joyce Wieland was awarded in 1982 with the Order of Canada.

Filmography

(Selection)

  • Water Sark (1965 )
  • Sailboat (1967 )
  • Council Life and Diet in North America ( 1968)
  • Dripping Water ( 1969) ( with Michael Snow)
  • Cat Food (1969 )
  • Reason Over Passion / La raison avant la passion (1969 )
  • Solidarity (1973 )
  • The far shore (1976 )
  • A and B in Ontario (1984 ) (together with Hollis Frampton )
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