An Interview with Joyce Wieland
Afterimage, May 1981, v. 8, no. 10, pp. 8-12
An interview with Joyce Wieland at her Toronto studio. Wieland discusses her biography as an artist, from her initiation into animation by a breakaway group from the NFB. The interviewer dwells on Wieland's use of left-over stock and unused footage, a trend which is evident from her time at the animation studio when she would make parodies of commercials using outdated or extra film. Wieland talks about her first experience with experimental film, and her interest in domestic portraits, her body, and women behind the camera. She discusses her emergence as a women filmmaker among the New York underground, and disparages the male-dominated art world for its refusal to acknowledge the work of contemporary women filmmakers. Wieland uses her own relationship with Michael Snow as an illustration of this inequality. She talks about her resettlement in Toronto, and her appreciation of the socialist bonds of the Canadian art scene, as well as the development of Canadian themes in her work. Wieland ends the interview by discussing her plans for her practice which involves drawings of female mythological characters in the same style as her storyboards for her films.
ITEM 1981.050 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Flaming Creatures – Jack Smith
Socialist – Jacob Sky
The Cool World – Shirley Clarke
Wedding in White – Richard Leiterman
Pierre Vallieres – Joyce Wieland
Birds at Sunrise – Joyce Wieland
The Far Shore – Joyce Wieland
Rat Life and Diet in North America – Joyce Wieland
Enactment – Mary Mitchell
Reason Over Passion – Joyce Wieland
Catfood – Joyce Wieland
Hand-Tinting – Joyce Wieland
Enactment – Joyce Wieland
Barbara's Blindness – Joyce Wieland
Barbara's Blindness – Betty Ferguson
1933 – Joyce Wieland
Sailboat – Joyce Wieland
Wavelength – Michael Snow
Knocturne – Mike Kuchar
Knocturne – George Kuchar
Patriotism – Joyce Wieland
A and B in Ontario – Hollis Frampton
A and B in Ontario – Joyce Wieland
Tea in the Garden – Joyce Wieland
Water Sark – Joyce Wieland
True Patriot Love/Veritable Amour Patriotique – Joyce Wieland