Student film workshop?

Student film workshop?

"Generally I am not too keen on amateur dramas in film this one makes it [sic]. The woman who plays the principle character is an excellent actress who is very sensitive to the entire mood of the film. It is set in mid winter in the interior of B.C. in an old farmhouse in mid winter [sic]. The husband leaves the woman alone for the day though she protests that a blizzard is coming. He says he will stop by a neighbour‚ and ask him to drop by, as he may be late and don't wait for him after six. She spends the day painting the bedroom door and in the evening attempts to bring the cows in despite the severe storm. The neighbour drops by and she makes supper, setting 3 places. The sense of isolation and fear of the storm is evoked through long silent scenes of the woman‚ Äôs face, the empty plate, the drab room. The house is well chosen, old and dark, furnished in early depression. The neighbour seduces the woman. She awakens in the middle of the night to a vision of her husband covered with snow, standing at the doorway. She decides that it must surely be a dream. The next morning we see her racing through the snow to her husband's body which lies at the gate. His bare hand is marked with fresh paint." [Handwritten notes (author unknown), 21 May 1975, in arrangement & description section of F-232 collection file]; "Adapted from the Sinclair Ross story, The Painted Door." [SFU 74/75 Film Workshop Showcase program]

Student film workshop?

Student film workshop?

"A high school student finds out there is no meaning to life." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

"What happens when you cannot think of an idea for a script? You write about a chameleon." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

"Empathy of another kind is the subject of [this film]. Based on a poem by Constance Lindsay Skinner, the eight-minute film follows Squamish sacred elder Andrew Natural through the woods and reflects visually his communion with his surroundings." [Michael Walsh, "Student film mood: Calmness supplants revolution," ca. 1973 article]; "(Filmmaker’s first 16mm film, shot in Colour reversal 7252 & 7241.) A cinematic interpretation of a poem by C.L. Skinner on [Indigenous] Chief Capilano with narration spoken in the Squamish language." [Spring Arts Festival, March 11-April 8, S.F.U. Film Workshop Productions 1973, program] Narrator, "Dr. Louis Miranda, born in 1892, was one of the foremost experts on Squamish culture and language. Miranda, a former Squamish chief, began his work with the Dutch ethnographer Aert Kuipers in creating a written language for the Squamish Nation. Miranda would receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from SFU in 1981 for that initiative." [http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1975.htm] Reference material section of F-232 collection file includes the following description for the film: "A cinematic interpretation of a poem by C.L. Skinner on [Indigenous] Chief Capilano with narration spoken in the Squamish language. " Narrator, Louis Skinner, of the Squamish Nation was one of the foremost experts on Squamish culture and language. He received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from SFU in 1981. (http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1975.htm)

Student film workshop?

"(25 minutes) 16mm colour documentary educational film. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it wothout ado or apology, as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am myself, myself alone.' William James. 'Claws?' is a crab's eye view of his world and our ... " [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

Film by Fumiko Kiyooka. Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in video, 16mm, and DVD formats: "Two women submerge themselves in memories of World War II while screening archival footage. One remembers the story of an aunt from Hiroshima whose father had been a member of the peace party when the military government forced its way into power before the war. The young woman recalls how her aunt left Japan for the safety of Canada, only to be interned with Canadians of Japanese descent at the outbreak of war. The other woman recounts the details of her own experience as a young nurse on the morning of August 6, 1945. Awards: Norman McLaren Award at Festival des films du monde, Award of Merit at the Chicago International Film Festival." 26 min., 1985 [http://www.movingimages.ca/catalogue/Canhistory/Canhistory.html#RTFToC6]. Also held by SFU Library's Special Collections/Rare Books in VHS format [http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2920774~S5a] According to Vancouver Sun article (p. F1, 30 August 1985; copy in reference material section of F-232 collection file): "Clouds, a short about Hiroshima and Japanese internment during the Second World War, won the $1,000 Norman McLaren award [at the Montreal World Film Festival]. The 25-minute, 16-millimetre film, is directed by Scott Haynes and Fumiko Kiyooka. Haynes graduated form SFU in May while Kiyooka was a second-year student."

Student film workshop?

Won honourable mention for lyricism at the 16th Canadian Student Film festival in Montreal in 1985.

"Jackie Crossland stars in this film depicting the waste and over-consumption of our society." [SFU Film Workshop Retrospective list]. Nesya Shapiro (director) works in the industry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089526/. Crossland was in two films in the 1970s, including Robert Altman's "McCabe & Mrs. Miller": http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189328/.