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Reason Over Passion (French: La raison avant la passion) is a Canadian experimental film, directed by Joyce Wieland and released in 1969.
With this piece Wieland creates the conditions under which the political meets the personal, a place where the masculinity of public life encounters feminized domesticity, and where reason and passion become bedfellows.
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- Activism and Nationalism
- Feminism
- Environment, Ecology, and Landscape
Joyce Wieland belongs to that 1960s generation of artists sometimes referred to as the neo-avant-garde. In Canada and internationally, trained modernist painters were breaking away from a medium-specific understanding of art, developing practices that used a wide range of materials, media, and subject matter. The American art critic Clement Greenbe...
When Wieland made assemblages and films that alluded to the Vietnam War, she joined a generation of activists, intellectuals, students, and artists outraged by a war that resulted in carnage. But Wieland’s treatment of serious political issues would often be allusive, ironic, or even comical. For instance, in Stuffed Movie, 1966, references to the ...
In 2008–9 Joyce Wieland was included in the exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution when it travelled to the Vancouver Art Gallery from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her art and experimental films were powerful contributions to an international phenomenon—the transformation of twentieth-century art as it came into contact wi...
Joyce Wieland was deeply responsive to the natural environment, both as an activist and as an artist/filmmaker. In the early 1960s she spoke out against the widespread use of pesticides, and in later years she was involved in other ecological causes and protested the construction of massive hydroelectric dams in northern Canada. By the time of her ...
Joyce Wieland, Reason over Passion, 1969, 16 mm film, 90:00 minutes, , National Gallery of Canada.
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Details. Title: Reason over Passion. Creator: Wieland, Joyce. Date Created: 1968/1968. Physical Dimensions: 256.5 x 302.3 x 8 cm. Type: Sculpture. Rights: Purchased 1970. Medium: quilted...
Pierre Trudeau Cast, Screenplay. Critics reviews. One of Joyce Wieland’s most renowned experimental films– a cross-country travelogue, political satire, modernist experiment— which embodies many of the themes recurrent in her rich, diverse and extensive oeuvre.
