Direction: Barbara Sternberg

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot A multiplicity of diverse images - cut together rhythmically flicker with energy fire, light, life. "Your life is like a candle. Whether you are aware of it or not, it...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot A mini-presentation of consciousness dealing with cosmos. The world in a grain of sand. Connections between life, death, and the world are neither static nor symmetrical but flowing and intuitive....

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot “Like a Dream That Vanishes” continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal nature of film, as the stuff of life...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot Layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths an effort, but glimpses of other states suggest we can surface.

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot A bedroom (and life) viewed from the horizontal, while wondering whether to join in the race or wake up to the illusion. The soundtrack quotes from Gertrude Stein’s Making of...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot Different ways of knowing and experiencing the world are elucidated by the images (we see a solitary man running along a road, a couple breakfasting daily before work, a boy...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot Images flutter and flicker in orgasmic rhythms. Visual references to Bataille’s “solar anus”, to romantic coupling, to monkeys and man are held together within the sustaining dichotomy of beginnings and...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating (1995) – emotions which conflict, confuse, are difficult to reconcile. The texts ‘speak’ unsaid and unsayable thoughts,...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot The images that constitute our memory tend to rigidify into spectres in the course of their (collective and individual) historical transmission. Hence the task is to bring them to life....

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot Mrs. Sally Sternberg narrates the conditions of her and her husband's escape from Poland to Siberia during WWII and their life there in a labour camp—while we see her in...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot 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 the pressure...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its wings tirelessly; a figure (man, boy?) who sits...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot After Nature, after the Fall, after all – where do we go from here? Digital imagery and optically printed superimpositions combine in a cascading plunge to no(w)here – new beginnings...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

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

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot Beating' -- to get beaten or give a beating, to beat oneself up. To beat the odds. Metal is forged by beating. Birds beat their wings, the sun beats down,...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

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

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot 'Untitled #1' is a film of liminal thresholds, borders, amorphous states - sky, clouds, fog, lake, snow. A film in motion - camera gestures and emulsion activity. People and seasons...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot “Transitions” is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being between - between falling asleep and being awake, between here...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot This film is about love-relations between men and women, conversations in the air. Men are heard in voice-over speaking a love-talk which is personal, though anonymous, or singular. Another voice-over...

Direction Barbara Sternberg

Plot Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations; Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional, musical, and spiritual affects to colour; North American Natives see personality traits and...