joycewieland &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:joycewieland @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:32:24 +0200 Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nm3n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland, 1968)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="occasion" Independence Day/div div class="img" Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)/div div class="caption" Rats – gerbils actually – nibbling on the Stars and Stripes (via). DP: Joyce Wieland./div div class="txt" A movie set in the USA for Independence Day (USA)) "This film tells a story of rebels (played by real rats) and cops (played by real cats). After a long domination by cats, the rats escape from prison (this is their rebellion) and find refuge in Canada. There, they feed on organic produce from a garden where the grass hasn’t been sprayed with DDT." ### – Jonas Mekas, via French-Canadian patriot Joyce Wieland tells a fable of freedom. &nbsp; ##### Coincidentally, the Canadian city of Trois-Rivières, scene of the final battle of the American Revolutionary War, also celebrates an Independence Day#Other_countries) on the fourth of July. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #IndependenceDay #JoyceWieland #freedom #VietnamWar #animals #rats #gerbils #politics #ShortFilm #satire #Canada #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland, 1968)

Jul

4

Independence Day

Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)

Rats – gerbils actually – nibbling on the Stars and Stripes (via). DP: Joyce Wieland.

A movie set in the USA for Independence Day (USA)

“This film tells a story of rebels (played by real rats) and cops (played by real cats). After a long domination by cats, the rats escape from prison (this is their rebellion) and find refuge in Canada. There, they feed on organic produce from a garden where the grass hasn’t been sprayed with DDT.”

– Jonas Mekas, via

French-Canadian patriot Joyce Wieland tells a fable of freedom.

 

Coincidentally, the Canadian city of Trois-Rivières, scene of the final battle of the American Revolutionary War, also celebrates an Independence Day on the fourth of July.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #IndependenceDay #JoyceWieland #freedom #VietnamWar #animals #rats #gerbils #politics #ShortFilm #satire #Canada #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nm3n Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200 Reason Over Passion [La raison avant la passion] (Joyce Wieland, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-m10y <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Reason Over Passion [La raison avant la passion] (Joyce Wieland, 1969)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" Victoria Day/div div class="img" Reason Over Passion (1969)/div div class="caption" A winding road. nearos oevr isoasnp. DP: Joyce Wieland./div div class="txt" A movie made or set in Canada for Victoria Day (Canada) "sroena evor ssiapon" ### – Pierre Trudeau Joyce Wieland's heart and camera travel from the Canadian east coast all the way to the west. Cars drive by, suns set, suns rise, and Pierre Trudeau's motto rings on in 537 permutations./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #VictoriaDay #FêteDeLaReine #JoyceWieland #politics #ArtFilm #RoadMovie #Canada #1960s/div /section ]]>

Reason Over Passion [La raison avant la passion] (Joyce Wieland, 1969)

May

19

Victoria Day

Reason Over Passion (1969)

A winding road. nearos oevr isoasnp. DP: Joyce Wieland.

A movie made or set in Canada for Victoria Day (Canada)

“sroena evor ssiapon”

– Pierre Trudeau

Joyce Wieland's heart and camera travel from the Canadian east coast all the way to the west. Cars drive by, suns set, suns rise, and Pierre Trudeau's motto rings on in 537 permutations.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #VictoriaDay #FêteDeLaReine #JoyceWieland #politics #ArtFilm #RoadMovie #Canada #1960s

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