Moyra Davey Movies
- 1990
Hell Notes
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A Super-8 essay film about New York City bedrock, excrement, and money
- 2006
Fifty Minutes
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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.
- 2019
i confess
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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...
- 1989
Home Avenue
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An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior.
- 2022
Horse Opera
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Moyra Davey’s raw confessional situates the filmmaker and her extended community of friends alongside tributes, homages, and citations,...
- 2016
Hemlock Forest
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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...
- 2014
My Saints
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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...
- 2015
Notes on Blue
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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,...
- 2011
Les Goddesses
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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...
- 2009
My Necropolis
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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...
- 2017
Wedding Loop
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A wedding party reflected through the work of 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
- 1991
Age 12: Love with a Little L
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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...