Movies by Joanna Woodward

The Brooch Pin & the Sinful Clasp

The Brooch Pin & the Sinful Clasp

A man sees a ballerina dancing on the top of a tower block and he sets off to find her. Only to be confronted by a giant at the top.

The Grid

The Grid

A story about a time traveler and the search for the first cell of one's existence. 'The Dead', played by Peter Murphy searches for and finds a 'Grid' which enables him to watch the beginning of his life -from the moment of conception.

Sawdust for Brains and the Key of Wisdom

Sawdust for Brains and the Key of Wisdom

A colourful yet sinister mix of painting, puppets, and real people. A puppet maker shrinks people, then sends them down a conveyer belt to be married and later used as figures on a wedding cake. Our minds, although not clock-work, are forced to live in manufactured time. If we can stop just for a moment , we will see the magical place outside of time.

Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

An animated film based on the painting about Max Ernst of the same title, he said that a “fevervision” he had experienced when he was sick with measles as a child inspired him to compose the haunting scene that unfolds in Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale. Merging collage and painting, he affixed a wooden gate, parts of a toy house, and a knob to a dreamlike painted landscape. A blue sky dominates the composition, and in it a small nightingale hovers above two young girls. The painting features what would come to be identified as ...

Don't Submit to a Moment's Passion with a Stranger

Don't Submit to a Moment's Passion with a Stranger

A one minute film about a disappointing lover.