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Co-directors: Anna Feldman Gronau and Midi Onodera
Séance performers
Anna Feldman Gronau
Mary Hughes (remembered with gratitude)
Margaret Thurner
Footage from: Mary Mary by Anna Gronau
The Displaced View by Midi Onodera
Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax) by Midi Onodera
Home movies courtesy of:
Anna Feldman Gronau
Jane Levesque archive
Very Special Thanks to Su Rynard
Additional footage:
The Magic Roses (1906) Segundo de Chomón
Soundscapes and Sound Editing: Lewis Kaye
Voice-over Engineer: Christopher Dela Cruz
Warning Graphic
Iori Matsushima
Toronto Metropolitan University Film Lab: Mark Loeser,
Niagara Custom Lab
“By the waters of Minnetonka” performed by John Hammond
Written by James Mulloy Cavanass & Thurlow Lieurance
Harmony Records 1928
Chanting: “The Heart Sutra”, Global Well-Being
“Charmaine” performed by Neil Allen
Written by Pollack Rapee
Okeh Phonograph Corporation 1927
Sound effects from free sound.org
Gentle lapping waves – Sand Point Beach 6-20-24 by Ambient-X
Kaitafilmikamera, vanha, veto, käy, pyörii by YleArkisto
Traffic light from 3rd floor window or balcony NYC, USA.flac by kyles
Marching-concrete-loop.aif by stib
CRWDBatl_Crowd Commotion, Battle, Riot_ShaneVincent_GSC24_MSDEC-MKH435-Spirit.wav by ShangusBurger
Police read riot act over PA by rocketchicken
Rome San Giovanni 15ott2011 Riots.mp3 by Nexusmoves
S05-19 Distant rifle shot with long reverb.wav by craigsmith
Heavy Sniper Rifle-1.wav by neoxygen
Creaking Floor-Creaking Ship Timbers.m4a by nathankwright
Ratachewy remix of strangehorizon’s freesound #668381.flac by Timbre —
Sea, waves crashing by Cigaro30
8 Bit Sizzle by Jofae
Food Sizzling.wav by bennathanras
Birds, barking dog & car passing by arnaud coutancier
Single car drives by on a wet country road field recording by Garuda1982
Fields pond 316PM NL EU 220504_0342 by klankbeeld
West coast waves old skagen beach 07-28.wav by Kyster
Joyce Wieland Quotes
From The Films of Joyce Wieland, Kathryn Elder, ed., Cinematheque Ontario monographs, Toronto International Film Festival Group, 1999
“I Don’t Even Know about the Second Stanza” transcribed conversation of Joyce Wieland and Hollis Frampton, R. Bruce Elder, ed., 1999
“Kay Armatage Interviews Joyce Wieland” originally in Take One 3, no.2 (Nov.–Dec. 1970)
From Art Canada Institute, https://www.aci-iac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Art-Canada-Institute_Joyce-Wieland.pdf
“Joyce Wieland Life and Work” by Johanne Sloan, 2014
From Canadian Women Film Directors Database, Margaret Fulford, University of Toronto
“Interviews with Canadian artists: Debbie Magidson and Judy Wright interview Joyce Wieland.” Canadian Forum, 1974
From Women and the Cinema: A Critical Anthology, Karen Kay and Gerald Peary, eds, 1977, E.P. Dutton, New York and Clarke Irwin and Company Ltd, Toronto 1977
“Interview with Joyce Wieland” by Kay Armatage, 1971
Thanks to the following people we asked about the cat at Joyce’s funeral:
Kass Banning
Rachel Barney
David Bennell (Biagioni)
Elizabeth Chitty
Susan Crean
Munro Ferguson
Lynne Fernie
Kristy Holmes
Anna V Hudson
Susan Lord
Elizabeth MacKenzie
Joyce Mason
Michaelle McLean
Christine Oksanen
John Porter
Su Rynard
Eo Sharp
Barbara Sternberg
Leila Sujir
Dot Tuer
Georgiana Uhlyarik
Joyce Zemans
Thanks to
The Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre (CFMDC)
The East Room
Derek Jenkins
Lesley Loksi Chan
The Dandelion Film Collective
Posted August 18, 2025