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Joyce Wieland

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Joyce Wieland

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Canadian artist and film director (1931–1998)

Film & TV

Toronto, Canada

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…

Known for

  • Portrait of Snow — Herself2016
  • Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland — Self1987
  • Home Movies 1971-811985
  • Motel Capri1985
  • A and B in Ontario1984
  • ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen1974
  • Zorns Lemma1970
  • Seminar1969
  • Back and Forth1969
  • Knocturne1968

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Instance of
human
Given name
Joyce
Gender
female
Citizenship
Canada
Place of birth
Toronto
Place of death
Toronto
Occupation
lithographer
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
film
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cause of death
Alzheimer's disease
date of birth
1931-06-30
date of death
1998-06-27
medical condition
Alzheimer's disease
manner of death
natural causes
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