Barbara Sternberg
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Year of Birth: 1945
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: film, media, video
Add to List
Work by Barbara Sternberg
A Trilogy
Work ID: 27326
Description: 1982 [16mm film, 45 min. / excerpt: 4 min. 10 sec.]
The film considers three ways we engage the world; as an individual; as part of a community at an historical moment; as part of the larger, cosmic energy with three filmic styles: long take, mise-en-scene, superimpositions.
Selected screenings: L.A. Film Forum, Los Angeles; Anthology Film Archives, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mainfilm, Montreal.
This and other films by Barbara Sternberg are distributed by The Canadian Filmmaker's Distribution Centre, Toronto.
Measurements: 45 min.
Collection:
Date Made: 1982
Materials: 16mm film
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Transitions
Work ID: 27328
Description: 1982 [16mm film, 10 min. / excerpt: 3 min. 46 sec.]
Layers of image and sound reflect how our minds work and the anxiety and heroic struggle of everyday living.
Selected screenings: Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB; TVOntario; Univ. of Bologna, Italy; Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto.
This and other films by Barbara Sternberg are distributed by The Canadian Filmmaker's Distribution Centre, Toronto.
Measurements: 3 min. 46 sec.
Collection:
Date Made: 1982
Materials: 16mm film
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Beating
Work ID: 27327
Description: 1995 [16mm film, colour and b&w, 64 min. / excerpt: 4 min.]
From the beginning text "SOB/S.O.B" to the ending "I forgive you", from Europe in war to post-war North America, through hurt and danger and scars, through feminism (from silence to hearing it all) - a barrage of excerpts from Virginia Woolf, Helene Cixous and others, this film is a
journey to reconcile contradictions.
Selected screenings: San Francisco Cinemathèque; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Gallery 101, Ottawa; Cinemathèque Ontario, Toronto.
This and other videotapes by Barbara Sternberg are distributed by The Canadian Filmmaker's Distribution Centre, Toronto.
Measurements: 64 min.
Collection:
Date Made: 1995
Materials: 16mm film, colour and b&w
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
For Virginia
Work ID: 47729
Description: 2000 [13 min. / excerpt: 4 min. 37 sec.]
An evocation on the streets of Toronto of the life and writing of Virginia Woolf.
Selected screenings: Alucinelat Festival, Dominican Republic.
Distributed by V/Tape, Toronto.
Measurements: 13 minutes
Collection:
Date Made: 2000
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
New York Counterpoint
Work ID: 47733
Description: 2002 [28 min. / excerpt: 2 min. 41 sec.]
One of three "city portraits" based on one architectural feature and one segment of the population; in this case, wooden water towers and old ladies. Music, NY Counterpoint, by Steve Reich.
Selected screenings: Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick.
Distributed by V/Tape, Toronto.
Measurements: 28 minutes
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Sunsets
Work ID: 47732
Description: 2002 [40 min. / excerpt: 3 min. 50 sec.]
Nine sunsets were recorded with a Sony MiniDV digital camera on nine successive evenings. The words of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss are heard as voice-over in French (the language of its writing) and in English (in translation) as he attempts to describe in precise detail his viewing of a sunset: "If I could find a language in which to perpetuate those appearances, at once so unstable and so resistant to description..." In this tape translations are being rendered. Representations of Phenomenon and the experience of them are being attempted. Images are being created.
Distributed by V/Tape, Toronto.
Measurements: 40 minutes
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Like a dream that vanishes
Work ID: 54198
Measurements: original duration: 41:00 min.
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: 16 mm print transfer, 2 track audio
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
