The Far Shore
In conjunction with the Heart On exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, dedicated to visual artist and filmmaker Joyce Wieland, the Cinémathèque Québécoise restored and digitized some of her films for the very first time. In addition to restored versions, we are presenting her entire body of work in its original 16 mm format.
Until May 4, get a 15% discount when you purchase a ticket for our regular programming by presenting your ticket for the exhibition Joyce Wieland: Heart On.
Winner of three Canadian Screen Awards in 1976
In 1919, Eulalie, a young Quebec woman, marries an Ontario engineer. In this stifling Puritan society, she meets Tom, a painter with whom she has a passionate affair. The Far Shore was inspired by an incident that happened to Tom Thompson, a painter and member of the Group of Seven. In this film we see how a woman experimental filmmaker attempted to use the melodramatic form for feminist activism. (Lauren Rabinovitz, 1999)
Joyce Wieland
Joyce Wieland was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist. She first found success as a painter when she began her career in Toronto in the 1950s. In 1962, she moved to New York City and expanded her career as an artist by including new materials and mixed media work. During that time, she also rose to prominence as an experimental filmmaker and soon, institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York were showing her films. In 1971, her True Patriot Love exhibition became the first solo exhibition by a living Canadian female artist at the National Gallery of Canada. In 1982, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 1987, she received the Toronto Arts Foundation's Visual Arts Award. She was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Her work explores themes of ecology, feminism, politics, and the rights of Indigenous peoples.
