The Lisa Steele Tapes: Investigation and Vision
North of Everything: English Canadian Cinema Since 1980, 1980, pp. 430-445
University of Alberta Press, 1980
A chapter by Catherine Russell on a selection of Lisa Steele's work in three categories: "Involuntary Memory" focuses on works from 1972-1976, and explores the body as a site of memory, narrative, and its relationship to video/machine and performance. "Carving Details" focuses on works from 1975-1978, and examines the Female Avant Garde and montage. "The Performance of the other woman" looks at work from 1978-1982, that appear as "[Portraits of women] caught within an institutional authority system in which gender is constructed in specific and unequal ways". "Archival Fictions" looks at works from 1984-1992, and examines "the creative use of memory as a challenge to repression and denial".
ITEM 2002.266 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Birthday Suit - With Scars and Defects (1972) – Lisa Steele
Legal Memories (1992) – Lisa Steele
The Very Personal Story (1974) – Lisa Steele
The Ballad of Dan People (1976) – Lisa Steele
Talking Tongues (1982) – Lisa Steele
Facing South (1975) – Lisa Steele
Waiting for Lancelot (1977-78) – Lisa Steele
Thriller (1979) – Kim Tomczak
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) – Rosalind Krauss
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) – Dot Tuer
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) – Ranee Baert
Sifted Evidence (1982) – Walter Benjamin
Talking Tongues – Sally Potter
The Damage – Laura Mulvey
Makin' Strange – Petter Wollen
The Gloria Tapes – Laura Mulvey and Petter Wollen
Woman in Infanticide – Patricia Gruben
Some call it bad luck – Joyce Wieland
In the Dark – Lisa Steele
The Blood Records: Written and Annotated – Lisa Steele
See Evil – Lisa Steele
Private Eyes – Lisa Steele
White Dawn – Lisa Steele
Working Double Shifts – Lisa Steele
Legal Memories – Eroll Morris
The Blood Records – Lisa Steele
Blurred Boundaries – Lisa Steele
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Vera Frankel
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