Moyra Davey Movies

A Super-8 essay film about New York City bedrock, excrement, and money

Shot over the course of three years, the video comprises a series of vignettes that reflect upon reading, nostalgia, and psychoanalysis.

Moyra Davey’s raw confessional situates the filmmaker and her extended community of friends alongside tributes, homages, and citations,...

Hemlock Forest traces the worlds of Karl Ove Knaugsard and Chantal Akerman as Davey considers the implications of her son leaving home and Akerman's...

In her latest home recorded essay film, Canadian artist Moyra Davey explores Québec’s knotty history of oppression through an array of...

Following Jean-Pierre Gorin, and other New Wave filmmakers, Moyra Davey’s transparency allows us to explore the space between the text and the...

This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on...

Moyra Davey's new 28-minute video is a lyrical film essay that interweaves various biographies-including those of Derek Jarman, poet Anne Sexton,...

An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior.

A wedding party reflected through the work of 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

Filmed almost entirely in the artist’s New York apartment, Moyra Davey draws parallels between her familial experience and the family of...

Moyra Davey's video My Necropolis pairs footage of cemeteries in Paris with attempts at interpreting an enigmatic line from a letter that Walter...