Women and Men Unglued

20031 h 10 min 59 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Katherine Gilday

Production: Germaine Ying Gee WongSally Bochner

Script: Katherine Gilday

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with TVO.

At the start of the new millennium, relations between men and women are in turmoil. Traditional marriage is challenged on all fronts. Long-held notions about gender, commitment and courtship have been cast aside. And 'marriageable' people are staying single in record numbers.

Is this an historical blip or a fundamental change in society? Do men and women even need each other anymore? Women and Men Unglued dares to ask these questions.

This provocative documentary takes an uncensored look at single, urban Gen-Xers living on the edge of this social change. Operating in a free-for-all zone where old mating rules don't apply and new ones don't exist, these young urbanites struggle to find intimacy amid chaos.

Against this backdrop, leading experts like Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and Bert Archer take a fresh look at how relations between the sexes are evolving.

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Subject categories


  • Women > Changing RolesInterpersonal Relationships
  • Families > Couples
  • Social Issues > Family LifeWomen
  • Sexuality and Reproduction > Interpersonal Relationships

Credits


director
Katherine Gilday
writer
Katherine Gilday
editor
Hannele Halm
Petra Valier
Cathy Gulkin
photography
Harald Bachmann
Ali Kazimi
additional photography
Katherine Gilday
Rudolf Kovanic
Rolf Cutts
Jason Tan
sound recordist
Peter Sawade
additional sound recording
Eric Harwood Davies
John Ritchie
Stephen Bourne
Patrick Brereton
Justine Pimlott
researcher
Michelle Kossoy
Barri Cohen
production coordinator
Margot Daley
Brenda Kovrig
sound editor
Don Ayer
sound re-recording
Serge Boivin
Shelley Craig
original music
Chris Crilly
sampling
Greg Smith
David Sturton
arranging
Greg Smith
David Sturton
music recording
DNA Productions
music mixing
DNA Productions
actor
Gerald Azzopardi
Barrington Bignall
Geordan Coupland
Stefen Hayes
Michelle Hospedales
Sophie Letendre
Sarah Marks
Christine Van Halteren
camera assistant
Stephen Morris
production assistant
Kareen Christie
Saeed Khan
stylist
Linda Carter
hair
Roxanne DeNobrega
makeup
Roxanne DeNobrega
hair assistant
Anita Cane
Mica Carter
makeup assistant
Anita Cane
Mica Carter
casting
Cathy Imrie Agency
Karen Clifton Agency
online editing
Sylvain Desbiens
Denis Gathelier
digital editing technician
Phyllis Lewis
Douglas Crawford
James Fiege
title design
Gaspard Gaudreau
post-production co-ordinator
Claude Cardinal
studio clerk
Sia Koukoulas
Evelyn Reid
studio administrator
Nickie Merulla
Marie Tonto-Donati
transcription
Chris Warren
stills photography
Ali Kazimi
producer
Germaine Ying Gee Wong
executive producer
Sally Bochner