La Raison Avant La Passion

Reason Over Passion then is Joyce Wieland’s major film so far. With its many eccentrics it is glyph of her artistic personality, a lyric vision tempered by an aggressive form and a visionary patriotism mixed with ironic self parody.’ – P. Adams Sitney .
‘This film is about the pain and joy of living in a very large-space: in fact, in a continent. It is painful, because ‘true patriot love’, a reasonable passion, can contain it after all. But what is remarkable for me, is that all its urgency is lucidly caught, bound as it were chemically, in the substance of film itself, requiring no exterior argument.’ – Hollis Frampton .