The Oxide Mandate: Queer Media in Halifax
Queer Looking/ Queer Acting, 1997
Mount St. Vincent: Mount St. Vincent University Press, 1997
As part of the Queer Looking/ Queer Acting: Lesbian and Gay Vernacular (11 Oct. - 16 Nov. 1997), MacSwain catalogues the history of video art in Halifax, starting with the new cultural climate in the wake of the 1967 Centennial Celebrations and World's Fair in Montreal. He includes a filmography listing various films produced in Halifax that contain overt lesbian or gay content, deal with issues of sexuality and gender and/or were produced by artists who have openly identified themselves as lesbian, gay or Queer.
ITEM 1997.027 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Reel Life
Gert Mabey
Jay MacLean
Pat Kipping
Donna Gallagher
Charby Slemin
Sylvia Hamilton
Cathy Carrol
Lifesize: Women and Film – Meredith Bell
Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative
Centre for Art Tapes
Art by Gay Men – Robin Metcalfe
Phallus – James MacSwain
Moscow Doesn't Believe in Queers – John Greyson
Neil MacInnis
Amherst – Greg Wight
Body by Atlas – Greg Wight
Here In The Southwest – Joyan Saunders
Prospect Place – Joyan Saunders
Our Two Cents Worth – Women and Video Explorations
A Word in Edgewise – Women and Video Explorations
Life After Diagnosis – Carol Millett
Dish – Charlatan Theatre Collective
Cherries – Charlatan Theatre Collective
Canada Uncut – Charlatan Theatre Collective
Queer, Dyke, Fruit – Charlatan Theatre Collective
Bed and (maybe) Brekfast – Charlatan Theatre Collective
If Lizards Were Prophets – Charlatan Theatre Collective
Short and Curlies – Charlatan Theatre Collective
Fiction and Other Truths, A Film about Jane Rule – National Film Board
The Water's Tale – Ann Verrall
Love and Oysters – Glenn Walton
The Hanging Garden – Thom Fitzgerald
Seige – Paul Donovan
75 Terrific Looks – Marusia Bociurkiw
Dance of a Totally Unified Person – Dreux Ellis
Not Tough Enough – Ariella Pahike
Face to Face – Lori Meserve
My Mother's Movie – Thom Fitzgerald
Saved by Isis – Andrea Ward