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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 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.
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- 1969-06-28
- Joyce Wieland
- 80
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...
Overview. The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated permutations of the film’s title appear like subtitles—the letters are scrambled over and over again, undermining the meaning of Pierre Trudeau's infamous motto.
Reason Over Passion (1969) Directed by Joyce Wieland Genres - Documentary | Release Date - Jun 28, 1969 | Run Time - 83 min. |
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.”
About the pain and joy of living in a very large space--in fact, in a continent. It is painful, because such an experience distends the mind, it seems too large for passionate reason to contain. It is joyous, because "true patriot love", a reasonable passion, can contain it.
