Maureen Bradley

Two 4 One

Maureen Bradley

Gavin Crawford, Naomi Snieckus

When Adam helps his nutty ex-girlfriend Miriam artificially inseminate, it turns into a one-night stand-- and they both wind up pregnant. You see, Adam has been transitioning to living as a man. Now torn between his feelings for Miriam and his need for a masculine identity, Adam must figure out whether he's going to settle down and have a baby, or just try to be one of the guys.

Go Dyke! Go!

Maureen Bradley

Go Dyke! Go! is a humorous commentary on lesbian relationships in the context of children’s literature. Taking off from the popular children’s book Go Dog! Go! (by P.D. Eastman), this animation paints a sarcastic, pointed and comic picture of queer life in the 90s. Familiar pop imagery and everyday signifiers are a point of entry for a discussion of the patterns of serial monogamy and lesbian representation. Go Dyke! Go! plays with the genre of animation and poses a game of semiotics to deconstruct the tropes of children's books and heterosexism.

Defiance

Maureen Bradley

A voice-over soundtrack repeats some common heterosexist lines: If only they didn’t flaunt it… It’s nothing personal but… A simple image, consisting of two women embracing, contradicts the soundtrack. This video examines the resilience of lesbian desire in the face of relentless homophobia.

Losing It

Maureen Bradley

The heady pleasures of new lust and love allow the artist to escape her head momentarily - before trepidation creeps back in. With her usual sensual blend of grainy slow motion imagery and in-your-face sex-talk, Bradley continues her passionate exploration into the nuances and contradictions of lesbian desire.

The Weight of Women's Eyes

Maureen Bradley

"I know you want me". Eyes wander across bodies dancing in the bar, hinting at the surface, not touching. Forbidden desires become playful streetwise sex, exploring the dynamics of watching and being watched. Originally produced as part of the two channel video installation "Girllie Movies" in "Fantasmagoria: Sexing the Lesbian Imaginary", first exhibited at the New Gallery in Calgary in 1993 by the lesbian art collective Lock Up Your Daughters.

We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Fabulous

Danielle Comeau, Maureen Bradley

"Montreal's Stonewall! In July 1989, riot police broke up a predominantly gay and lesbian party, assaulting party-goers and arresting eight people. Two days later, club-wielding police brutally attacked a mass demonstration in broad daylight, leaving dozens injured and 48 arrested. We're Here tells the story of communities coming together in the face of police brutality to organize, demonstrate and demand their rights as citizens."

Queer Across Canada

Maureen Bradley

Queer in Vancouver, lesbian in Calgary, gay in Whitehorse and dyke in… Is identity attached to location and community? Maureen Bradley, on the road with CBC’s Road Movies saw her identity being manipulated by the mainstream media.

Her

Maureen Bradley

Laurel Swenson, Zoe Eckle

"It was a night of passion, a passion so intense it makes you miserable..."

Not Like That: Diary of a Butch-a-Phobe

Maureen Bradley

Bradley explores her own phobia of being identified as a butch in this diaristic examination of internalized lesbophobia.

She Thrills Me

Maureen Bradley

Marilyn Frye says lesbian sex is inarticulate. Maureen Bradley says, "Marilyn Frye should have been at my house on New Year's Eve." Sexy black and white images are mixed with frank talk about sex, love, and girls, capturing that gritty space between what is politically correct and what takes your breath away.

Forever

Maureen Bradley

A short film about lesbians’ obsession with love and marriage. Using colourful imagery and an ironic voice-over, Bradley creates a playful and hilarious look at this popular cliché within the lesbian community.

Safe Sex is Hot Sex

Maureen Bradley

Nobody gets turned on by lists of do’s and don’ts. We need different strategies to help change sexual behaviour in the age of AIDS. This tapes attempts to eroticize safer sex practices and latex use. Rather than using explicit porn, the signifiers become gestural and facial to create an aura of eroticism. The address is pluri-sexual, the audience, everyone.

What I Remember

Maureen Bradley

What I Remember is a melancholy recollection of two stories of first love. The narrator relates two anecdotes from her youth, seemingly unrelated, but linked by both their sweetness and tragedy. What does she remember about first love? Awkwardness, embarrassment, secrecy, and abandon. The moral of the story? Once you fall hard, you better duck.

Tainted: Christopher Lefler and the Queer Censorship Chill

Maureen Bradley

In a 1993 art exhibit at the University of Saskatchewan, Christopher Lefler allegedly outed the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Sylvia Fedoruk. Lefler's show was closed down, his art seized, his scholarship revoked, and he was expelled from the University of Saskatchewan. Mainstream media and the queer community framed this issue as one of outing, when it was also used to attack the funding of the arts. This film attempts to chart some of the reactions to Lefler's controversial and much maligned work.