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Reason Over Passion (French: La raison avant la passion) is a Canadian experimental film, directed by Joyce Wieland and released in 1969.
Reason over Passion attracted particular attention because of its direct reference to the newly elected prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Wieland was inspired by an assertion made by Trudeau, “Reason over passion—that is the theme of all my writing.”
Reason over Passion is one of Joyce Wieland's most renowned experimental films - a cross-country travelogue, political satire, modernist experiment - which embodies many of the themes recurrent in her rich, diverse and extensive oeuvre.
Reason over Passion is one of Joyce Wieland’s most renowned experimental films– a cross-country travelogue, political satire, modernist experiment— which embodies many of the themes recurrent in her rich, diverse and extensive oeuvre.
In 2014, the focus of artist Mark Clintberg's Fogo Island residency was a quilted response to Wieland's work Reason Over Passion. The original work, made in both English and French, was inspired by the motto of the then-Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
Sep 10, 2012 · Release Details. Duration: 82 mins. Cast and crew. Director: Joyce Wieland. An email you’ll actually love. Not quite a structural film, Reason Over Passion nevertheless aggressively incorporates...
JOYCE WIELAND: Interview and Notes on Reason Over Passion and Pierre Vallières The Joyce Wieland archive is a substantial (just over 7m of textual records) and invaluable resource that has only been recently made available to the public. In the late 1980s, Wieland had organized her personal papers for donation to York
