Kay Armatage

Kay Armatage is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to Cinema Studies and Women's Studies. She directed the undergraduate Women's Studies Program, New College, 1988-93 and is the founding Director of the Graduate Collaborative Program in Women's Studies, 1994-99. She is a member of the Graduate Center for the Study of Drama.

She has published articles on women filmmakers, feminist theory and Canadian cinema. Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, co-edited with K. Banning, B. Long fellow and J. Marchessault, will be published by University of Toronto Press in 1999. Her current research is on Nell Shipman, Canadian director and star of films from the silent era.

Between 1975 and 1987 she produced and directed documentary and experimental narrative films: Jill Johnston (1977), Gertrude & Alice in Passing (1978); Speak Body (1979 ), Bed and Sofa (1979), Striptease (1980), Storytelling (1983), Artist on Fire: The Work of Joyce Wieland (1987).

Since 1983 she has been one of the senior programmers of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Artist on Fire
A film by Kay Armatage, 1987, 54 min., Color
A pioneer of feminist avant-garde cinema, Joyce Wieland has explored the crux of nationalism, feminine sexuality and ecology for more than thirty year...