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Handtinting - Joyce Wieland (Canada, 1967-68, 16mm, 6:00 min, mute)
This film is composed of cut-away shots that Wieland
filmed for a proposed documentary on a West Virginia job training center.
Wieland dyed this leftover footage, added flashed of other footage, and
scratched and perforated the film itself with her sewing needles. Recent
allusions to Handtinting incorporate into feminist
critical discussion the importance of tools and methods of working particular
to women’s crafts. The movie is comprised of looped and reversed images of the
girls dancing, swimming, and talking so that a repetitive or loop effect
results in actions that recur but are never completed. Their incomplete
movements and gestures become isolated rhythms of social rituals. Lacking
spatial depth and temporal completion, the repetitive actions negate the
illusion of solid space in documentary cinema.”
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