Direction: Barbara Sternberg
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Barbara Sternberg. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Earth in the Sea (S)
2017 · Documentary · 8 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot 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 fire in the water,...
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What Do You Fear? (S)
1996 · Documentary · 6 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.
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Once (S)
2007 · Documentary · 3 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot Poetry, film, light, life. An excerpt from Rilke's Ninth Elegy introduces this silent film which evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We catch...
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Midst
1997 · Documentary · 70 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot In Midst, Barbara Sternberg has made a lyrical film about attachment, integration, belonging.
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Opus 40 (S)
1979 · Documentary · 14 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot Opus 40” is about repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and rhythm, repetition in order and in revealing
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Praise (S)
2005 · Documentary · 25 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot A prologue excerpt from the poem 'Try to praise the mutilated world' sets the mood for this film of contained contrasts: black and white, negative and positive, light and dark....
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A Study in Pink and Blue (S)
1976 · Documentary · 3 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot Shots of the undulating curves of a wooden fishing boat are filmed in the blue and pink hues of late winter light.
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Time Being I – IV (S)
2007 · Documentary · 8 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos. These 6 short films can be shown separately or one after the other on one roll.
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(A) Story (S)
1981 · Documentary · 15 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot My grandfather talked in stories - a way of relating that was dying out, I felt, with that generation of European immigrant. The film connects him, archetypal narrative characters, and...
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...The Waters are the Beginning and End of All Things (S)
1980 · Documentary · 7 min. · Canada
Direction Barbara Sternberg
Plot The film frame contains the interplay of three circularly matted images: the Bay of Fundy, children, a rocking chair. A woman's voice tells of her summers at the cottage and...
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