At Home with Mary Stephen
Directed by Mary Stephen
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9m 56s
Directed by Metrograph | 10 mins | 2025
Editor and filmmaker Mary Stephen discusses her life and work.
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Labyrinthe
Directed by Mary Stephen | 5 mins | 1973
Two identically dressed women, one white, one Asian, negotiate winding, maze-like corridors. This experimental, oneiric work dating from Stephen’s time in Canada plays as a cinematic meditation on cross-cultural identity, an exploration of the psychologica... -
The Great Canadian Puberty Rite
Directed by Mary Stephen | 20 mins | 1974
This lyrical film diary chronicles a westward “pilgrimage” Stephen made, together with her partner John Cressey, at the end of her studies in Montreal, in the summer of ’74. As she contemplates the impetus for the journey, her camera surveys a variety of ... -
A Very Easy Death
Directed by Mary Stephen | 8 mins | 1975
Mary Stephen’s metaphor-rich, deeply compassionate contemplation of her mother’s death and its aftermath, which takes its title from the 1964 book by Simone de Beauvoir.
