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PLENTY 4: BARBARA’S BLINDNESS The screening series PLENTY proposes a new way of looking at artists\u2019 films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and space to consider it.<\/p>\n BARBARA\u2019S BLINDNESS<\/strong> Joyce Wieland (1931-88) was a pioneer of patriotic and feminist Canadian art. Though primarily known as a filmmaker, she was also a distinguished painter and mixed media artist. Wieland\u2019s lifelong friend Betty Ferguson (born 1933) went on to make three found footage films of her own in the 1970s.<\/p>\n PLENTY, a free monthly screening series selected by Mark Webber, forms part of the \u201cBrief Habits\u201d programme curated by Shama Khanna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PLENTY 4: BARBARA’S BLINDNESS Tuesday 8 February 2011, at 7pm London E:vent Gallery The screening series PLENTY proposes a new way of looking at artists\u2019 films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Tuesday 8 February 2011, at 7pm
\nLondon E:vent Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nJoyce Wieland & Betty Ferguson, Canada, 1965, 16mm, b\/w, sound, 17 min<\/strong>
\nConstructed from found and stock footage, Barbara\u2019s Blindness<\/em> is a meditation on vision and adversity, drawing humour and pathos from a moralising educational film. \u201cWe started out with a dull film about a little blind girl named Mary and ended up with something that made us get crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n