Moyra Davey Movies

  • 2006
    Fifty Minutes

    Fifty Minutes

    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.

    Fifty Minutes
  • 1989
    Home Avenue

    Home Avenue

    Home Avenue

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    An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior.

    Home Avenue
  • 1990
    Hell Notes

    Hell Notes

    Hell Notes

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    A Super-8 essay film about New York City bedrock, excrement, and money

    Hell Notes
  • 2015
    Notes on Blue

    Notes on Blue

    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,...

    Notes on Blue
  • 2022
    Horse Opera

    Horse Opera

    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,...

    Horse Opera
  • 2009
    My Necropolis

    My Necropolis

    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...

    My Necropolis
  • 2014
    My Saints

    My Saints

    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...

    My Saints
  • 2016
    Hemlock Forest

    Hemlock Forest

    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...

    Hemlock Forest
  • 2019
    i confess

    i confess

    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...

    i confess
  • 2017
    Wedding Loop

    Wedding Loop

    Wedding Loop

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    A wedding party reflected through the work of 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

    Wedding Loop
  • 2011
    Les Goddesses

    Les Goddesses

    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...

    Les Goddesses
  • 1991
    Age 12: Love with a Little L

    Age 12: Love with a Little L

    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...

    Age 12: Love with a Little L