An Evening with Su Rynard
That Toronto is a center of innovative filmmaking activity is demonstrated again, and vividly, in the "weird science" shorts of Su Rynard, playful narratives, part experimental, part Twilight Zone/Alfred Hitchcock Presents, part Borgesian in their piling on of academic-sounding phantasmic knowledge, and totally feminist in their choice of protagonists and subversive points-of-view.
PROGRAM
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Signal
Directed by Su Rynard.
Canada, 1993, 16mm, color, 3 min.
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Eight Men Called Eugene
Directed by Su Rynard.
With Hadley Obodiac.
Canada, 1996, 16mm, color, 16 min.
A witty faux documentary that unravels the work of eight (male) genetics scientists. A woman scientist takes the viewer on a rapid journey from the field’s quiet origins to its explosive implications in our technological era.
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Strands
Directed by Su Rynard.
With Stephanie Morgenstern, Lisa Ryder.
Canada, 1997, 16mm, color, 23 min.
A dark drama about friendship, jealousy, and possession. Misanthropist genetic scientist Helen Crittock takes a strand of her hair and secretly creates a stunning new friend and alter ego, Dr. Halley Hesperus. The new creation proves sociable and outgoing, to Dr. Helen’s horror.
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A Star is Born
Directed by Su Rynard.
Canada, 1999, 16mm.
Some rushes from Rynard’s current film-in-the-making following a torch-singing young woman from the Toronto burbs who wants to be the next Celine Dion / Mariah Carey.
