First Lesson

Talking About Adultery A discussion of infidelity told through confessional interviews of sex, marriage, and adultery. The film explores our hunger to find fulfillment through acts of committing to—and straying from—our partners and how the secrets we keep--and the lies we tell--in our search for love and desire reveal who we are. It is also the story of the director’s unexpected transformation, as she discovers her future partner through the process of making the film.

Boronyago-dori Avenue Short film depicting the aftermath of a storm.

Africa Dreaming A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa."

Ink in Milk Ink in Milk is Wieland’s most recent film – a knotted string-figure of histories, fictions and images. Through the flickering vignettes of a schoolboy trauma, visits to a friend at a psychiatric institution and encounters with animals, Ink in Milk exposes the anxious, web-like structures that underpin the tragicomedy of existence. The artist’s narrative is accompanied by a series of schematic, childlike diagrams, line drawings, ink paintings, plasticine animations, and crystalline sculptural forms, punctuated with super 8 film clips. Sometimes these images illustrate the narrative voice as gathered evidence; at other points they are oblique documents, disrupting chains of causality.

Frog Moon Developed over 7 years at the Film Farm in Canada.

Minka "Minka tells the story of the friendship between two children, Minka and Kany. Minka's father and mother have died. His step-father Karfa is the boss of the village community. Karfa's brother is owner of the source of income in the village, the granite mine, where many adults and children work. Karfa is a callous man who treats Minka badly. The girl Kany can no longer bear seeing Minka treated so badly. She calls on the children of the village to go on hunger strike. Karfa is furious, the terrible consequences are for Minka." - IFFR

Helsinki Twilight 1984 Documentary about the great cultural transformation of Helsinki, Finland, in the early 1980's. The birth of new sub-cultures, art galleries and performances.

Last Station "[Last Station / Verjin kayan] is inspired by the play 'Sojourn at Ararat', written and directed by Gerald Papasian and Nora Armani who also perform in the film. The play was premièred in 1986 in Edinburgh and went on to make a world tour. The film tells the story of three people on tour with a play against the background of a time in which new nations emerge and old rulers make desperate efforts to cling on to power. The scenes in the play are comments on the life of three actors, the Man, the Woman - an Armenian couple - and the Stage Manager, a dissident Russian who was once a famous Shakespearian actor. The picture of the three becomes increasingly clear as the journey passes more and more locations and they meet more and more people." - IFFR

Gingerella (RockaFela) An improvised essay about improvisation. Shot in the Brazilian Amazon and Europe before Brexit, Trump and Bolsonaro, Gingerella (RockaFela) explores the meaning of freewill, dance and synchronization in the age of populism.

The Chucko A couple endures a house tour under a chucko.