1976, 55 min.
Directed by Betty Ferguson

Canadian experimental filmmaker Betty Ferguson described her hour-long found footage collage film, Kisses as “a humorous dadaistic study of The Kiss in film.” Kisses examines iconic images through footage taken from feature films, newsreels, and old television series, and was screened at the legendary Manhattan night club Studio 54.
 
Born in 1933, Betty Ferguson has produced a series of experimental films which playfully explore the use of found footage and montage. Fellow artists and friends Joyce Wieland and Shirley Clarke were key influences in shaping her interest in and approach to film in the 1960s and ‘70s. In addition to Kisses, Ferguson’s works include: Barbara’s Blindness (1965), made in collaboration with Joyce Wieland, The Telephone Film (1972) and Airplane Film (1973). Ferguson currently lives in Montreal. Her films are distributed by CFMDC.
 
On February 16, join filmmaker Munro Feruson and the AGO’s Julian Cox for a conversation about Betty Ferguson’s life and work.