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    Zuma

    • 2012
    • 00h 12m 26s
    • Sharon Alward
    • Rent $200
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    Synopsis

    A performance ritual of grief, reconciliation and healing, Zuma explores the social construction of shadow mothers. Zuma is both a physical place and a metaphor for ambiguous loss. Witnessed and lovingly documented by Gwen Armstrong.

    Categories

    • Documentary,
    • Feminism,
    • History,
    • Performance,
    • Short,
    • Works by Women

    Shooting Format

    • HD

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Voice-Over,
    • Colour,
    • Sound,
    • Stereo

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Manitoba

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • AppleProRes,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Artist: Sharon Alward

    Provided By

    • Video Pool Media Arts Centre

    More By Sharon Alward

    Exiled Mothers

    • 2015
    • Sharon Alward

    In the stories of adoption, the mothers who gave birth were invisible. Exiled Mothers takes us on the artist Sharon Alward’s journey to recover her own repressed, secret, shaming memories from relinquishing her daughter in 1971.

    Exiled Mothers

    Contre Bande

    • 2001
    • Sharon Alward

    Contre Bande is about the power of sexual play/pleasure and the attempt to filter these images through strict cultural hierarchies. In much of the work I do sexuality becomes an oscillation - a diabolical double sex that breaks with all oppositions and hierarchies. In the performance/ video installation Contre Bande, each sex binds one to the other, speaking the language of the other; binding and counter-binding.

    Contre Bande

    Covenant

    • 1996
    • Sharon Alward

    Covenant explores the differences between traditional history and effective history in an attempt to reconcile an ancient biblical narrative.

    Covenant

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