Barbara Sternberg Movies

The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its...

The film is silent except for four short segments of sync sound, interviews with a man and a woman, which touch on two areas: control and anger; and...

"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

“Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life" is 'about' light and time - moments captured in their passing, light events shot in...

The day as it went along – feeling the light of the present…what else is there?

The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations...

Where does 'I' leave off and the 'world' begin; when does 'past' end and 'present' begin? Images blurring boundaries suggest the relatedness of...

Images flutter and flicker in orgasmic rhythms. Visual references to Bataille’s “solar anus”, to romantic coupling, to monkeys and...

Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...

A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.

Brief moments of being, fleeting bits out of the surrounding chaos. These 4 shorts films can be shown separately or one after the other on the roll.

Anything is Everything is composed of sequences of disparate footage, but with threads to follow: circular shapes from outer and terrestrial space;...

There were two initial impulses for the film: the paintings of John Turner (whence the bracketed title ”sun vision”) whose...

A mini-presentation of consciousness dealing with cosmos. The world in a grain of sand. Connections between life, death, and the world are neither...

Ideas about how we live in the world as humans, the difficulties faced, the conditions of our brief existence, accompany us consciously or...

Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.

Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to...

“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...