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Moyra Davey is a Canadian artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing. Since the 1980s she has exhibited widely, received numerous awards, and her work has been acquired by prominent institutions.
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01 February 1990
A Super-8 essay film about New York City bedrock, excrement, and money
01 January 2011
Filmed almost entirely in the artist’s New York apartment, Moyra Davey draws parallels between her familial experience and the family of 18th-century writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
14 September 2014
Following Jean-Pierre Gorin, and other New Wave filmmakers, Moyra Davey’s transparency allows us to explore the space between the text and the writer’s construction of the narrative, between text and reader, between word and interpretation.
18 October 2016
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 suicide.
07 November 2009
Moyra Davey's video My Necropolis pairs footage of cemeteries in Paris with attempts at interpreting an enigmatic line from a letter that Walter Benjamin wrote to his friend Gershom Scholem in 1931.
01 January 2017
A wedding party reflected through the work of 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
01 January 2019
In her latest home recorded essay film, Canadian artist Moyra Davey explores Québec’s knotty history of oppression through an array of perspectives and personalities.
01 January 2006
Shot over the course of three years, the video comprises a series of vignettes that reflect upon reading, nostalgia, and psychoanalysis.
01 January 2010
Meditative evocation of Peter Hujar through photo book pages.
09 September 2022
Moyra Davey’s raw confessional situates the filmmaker and her extended community of friends alongside tributes, homages, and citations, illuminating a collective memory while fostering a constellation of kinship between artists and thinkers.
12 July 1991
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 forbidden desire, transgression, and Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of identity formation.
01 January 1989
An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior.
01 June 2015
Moyra Davey's new 28-minute video is a lyrical film essay that interweaves various biographies-including those of Derek Jarman, poet Anne Sexton, writer Jorge Luis Borges, and the artist herself-to explore blindness, color, and identity.
