Movies: Moyra Davey
- 2016
Hemlock Forest (2016)
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Hemlock Forest traces the worlds of Karl Ove Knaugsard and Chantal Akerman as Davey considers the implications of her son leaving home and Akerman's suicide....
- 2015
Notes on Blue (2015)
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Moyra Davey's new 28-minute video is a lyrical film essay that interweaves various biographies-including those of Derek Jarman, poet Anne Sexton, writer Jorge Luis Borges, and the artist herself-to explore blindness, color, and identity....
- 1989
Home Avenue (1989)
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An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior....
- 2022
Horse Opera (2022)
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Moyra Davey’s raw confessional situates the filmmaker and her extended community of friends alongside tributes, homages, and citations, illuminating a collective memory while fostering a constellation of kinship between artists and thinkers....
- 2019
i confess (2019)
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In her latest home recorded essay film, Canadian artist Moyra Davey explores Québec’s knotty history of oppression through an array of perspectives and personalities. Inspired by James Baldwin and taking off from texts and theories by Québécois think...
- 2017
Wedding Loop (2017)
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A wedding party reflected through the work of 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron....
- 2014
My Saints (2014)
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Following Jean-Pierre Gorin, and other New Wave filmmakers, Moyra Davey’s transparency allows us to explore the space between the text and the writer’s construction of the narrative, between text and reader, between word and interpretation. The film ...
- 2006
Fifty Minutes (2006)
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Shot over the course of three years, the video comprises a series of vignettes that reflect upon reading, nostalgia, and psychoanalysis....
- 2009
My Necropolis (2009)
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Moyra Davey's video My Necropolis pairs footage of cemeteries in Paris with attempts at interpreting an enigmatic line from a letter that Walter Benjamin wrote to his friend Gershom Scholem in 1931. Benjamin, living in very difficult financial circu...
- 2011
Les Goddesses (2011)
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Filmed almost entirely in the artist’s New York apartment, Moyra Davey draws parallels between her familial experience and the family of 18th-century writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Leafing through postcards, book pages, and her own photogr...
- 1990
Hell Notes (1990)
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A Super-8 essay film about New York City bedrock, excrement, and money...
- 1991
Age 12: Love with a Little L (1991)
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This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on forbidden desire, transgression, and Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of identity formation. Raw adoles...