Marya Delver/Brian Johnson/Clare Hodge
23 min. 2001
Picking up where Roch Carrier's “A Secret Lost in Water” leaves off, Marya Delver pays homage to her 90-year-old grandmother, Mary Delver, who has been divining water and finding lost objects in rural Saskatchewan for over 60 years. Mary has honed a natural ability of well-witching into a mysterious art that she practises in a variety of ways. Beautifully shot in rural Saskatchewan, this film salutes a world of home-cooked meals and magic.
Subject(s): Community dynamics, Family, Saskatchewan, Women
Written and directed by Aerlyn Weissman
Produced by Harry Sutherland and Cari Green
Producers on Davie
52:00 minutes • 2004
Closed captioned
Available on VHS and DVD
WebCam Girls profiles some of the early female pioneers in cyberspace
who, with a modem and some moxie, take on old ideas about fame and shame and
open up a space for new kinds of art, erotica, celebrity and branding on the
Internet.
Ana Voog, a musician and artist, ran the first art/life webcam. Ducky Doolittle, a writer, sexologist and comedic burlesque
queen, turned to webcam work after a huge flood of fanmail from her appearance on the Howard Stern show. And frustration with her
day job in Vancouver led aspiring filmmaker Dionne Loewen to set up a profitable adult entertainment business controlled by the women
who worked in it.
Teresa Senft of NYU is an Internet culture critic whose PhD thesis, Camgirls: Webcam, Micro-celebrity and the Personal as Political
in the Age of the Global Brand, led her to set up her own webcam. She discovered how intense the work is, and adds her perspective
on the place that this mix of autobiography and branding holds in the history of performance art. WebCam Girls
celebrates the leading edge of an Internet culture where women call the shots.
"Voyerurism has never had it so good. But what exactly is being seen through these keyholes into other people's lives-unvarnihsed reality
or layers of personal fantasy?"
Subject(s): Artists-Ana Voog, Business, Communications, Internet, Poetry/Performance, Popular culture, Sexuality, Women
Glynis Whiting
46 min. 2001
Also available on DVD
When Girls Do It takes an unflinching look at the motivations of female
sexual predators and the devastating effects on their victims. This documentary
reveals the human reality behind sexual abuse by women; healing those who have
survived abuse, treating female offenders and preventing countless other children
from becoming victims. Featuring powerful interviews and compelling testimony,
it shows how important it is to acknowledge the enormity of female sexual offenses,
and encourages victims to speak out against this devastating crime.
Subject(s): Criminology,
Female sex offenders,
Sexual Abuse, Women
Leuten Rojas
Point of View @ Docs
46 min. 2007
Available on DVD and VHS
Like it or not, child labour is an indisputable reality in today's world. This documentary looks at the boys, girls and adolescents who have no other option but to work for their survival in Santiago, Chile–a modern metropolis and showpiece of free market economy wherein accelerated growth co-exists with destination. Their daily reality is mediated by conversations with committed NFO social workers and volunteers that try to help and protect them. Through candid interactions with several working children over a five-year period, the picture that emerges is one that exposes the lights and shadows of globalization. Perhaps one fo the most poignant comments comes from a girl who, is asked, "What do you want to be?" The response is, "Nothing. What could I be?"
Subject(s): Child labour, Children, about, Education, Globalization, Human rights, Latin America
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