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Kathryn Elder, editor. The Films of Joyce Wieland Cinematheque Ontario, x, 270. $26.95
'Joyce Wieland radically reworked cinema.' This statement by Laurence Kardish, senior curator of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Video, heads the back cover of The Films of Joyce Wieland, a collection of critical writing on the films of Canadian visual artist Joyce Wieland (1931-98). The book includes fifteen critical pieces published between 1970 and 1994 as well as two 1971 interviews with Wieland, filmmaker/critic Bruce Elder's commentary on one of these interviews, an original essay by film historian Michael Zyrd summarizing the critical reception of Wieland's films over the decades, a 331-item annotated bibliographic guide to film literature on Wieland with author index and film title index, and an illustrated filmography.
Editor Kathryn Elder's foreword holds a wealth of detail, as does the even briefer introduction by the Art Gallery of Ontario's chief curator, Dennis Reid. Elder sketches Wieland's life, her art career in general, her film career, and the thrust of critical writing on her work...