Women & Video Exploration: Three Halifax Videos
Video Guide, Dec. 1988, v. 9, no. 45, pp. 8-9
Three videos by members of the Halifax Women and Video Exploration collective are discussed. Heather MacLeod's A Word in Edgewise delivers in faux-documentary style an insightful but slightly didactic look into the gendered nuances of language. The group-directed Who Says? showed, in Metcalfe's words, "more enthusiasm than good judgement." The video suffered from too many competing viewpoints and poor editing. Lastly, Our Two Cents Worth, directed by Pam Murphy and Sara Newman, offers a surprsingly self-reflexive look into the world of activist Toni Goree. We are offered a glimpse into the world of marginalized, working-class Halifax women through a casual interview that takes place in Goree's kitchen.
ITEM 1988.126 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
A Word in Edgewise – Heather MacLeod
Our Two Cents Worth – Pam Murphy
Our Two Cents Worth – Sara Newman
Who Says? – Janet Thomson
Who Says? – Lyn MacKinlay
Who Says? – Angela Mombourquette
Who Says? – Jocelyn Mombourquette
Who Says? – Erica Munn
Who Says? – Anne Penney
Who Says? – Wendy Pruves