A 16mm screening of Kay Armatage’s 1987 film, ‘Artist on Fire: The Work of Joyce Wieland.’
This screening will be held in collaboration with FRAMES film series in support of the upcoming print issue of Femme Art Review.
Admission: $5 or by donation.
Artist on Fire: The Work of Joyce Wieland
Kay Armatage | Canada | 1987 | colour | 54 minutes
presented with the filmmaker’s permission
ARTIST ON FIRE: THE WORK OF JOYCE WIELAND
Joyce Wieland was, for well over thirty years, one of Canada’s most exciting and innovative artists. She worked in virtually every artistic medium, including cloth works, pastels, coloured pencils, oils, bronze, watercolours, and films of all gauges. One of the founding group of what came to be known as structural filmmakers in New York in the late 60s, she was also one of the first artists of this century to break into women’s traditional crafts as an art form, and used both film and cloth works as platforms for her principal political subjects – ecology, Canadian nationalism, and feminism.
This documentary film combines expressionistic uses of cinematography and sound to examine Wieland’s work in all media. Avoiding both the chronological treatment usually found in retrospective considerations of artists’ work and the conventional voice-over narration common to films on art, “Artist on Fire” offers an analysis of thirty years of Wieland’s work that is rich in both detail and contextual information. –(info courtesy of CFMDC)
