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 1980.051 – 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
Kim Tomczak
Rosalind Krauss
Dot Tuer
Ranee Baert
Walter Benjamin
Thriller (1979) – Sally Potter
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) – Laura Mulvey
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) – Petter Wollen
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) – Laura Mulvey and Petter Wollen
Sifted Evidence (1982) – Patricia Gruben
Joyce Wieland
Talking Tongues – Lisa Steele
The Damage – Lisa Steele
Makin' Strange – Lisa Steele
The Gloria Tapes – Lisa Steele
Woman in Infanticide – Lisa Steele
Some call it bad luck – Lisa Steele
Eroll Morris
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
Marvisia Bociurkiw
Legal Memories – Lisa Steele
The Blood Records – Lisa Steele
Vera Frankel
Blurred Boundaries – Bill Nicholas