Bill's Hat -- Film Description:
"Bill's Hat was a live cinema event performed twice in 1967, once at the experimental Toronto film festival Cinethon at Cinecity on Yonge Street in August (which had commissioned the film with a $1,000 prize), and again at the Art Gallery of Ontario in November. As biographer Jane Lind describes,'... This idyllic film was only a part of the whole performance of Bill's Hat, which included an altar with a hundred candles and pots of flowers. From the ceiling hung a pillow shaped like a heart. A woman lay silently on top of a piano with the hat on her belly. Besides the 50-minute movie projected on a screen, four simultaneous slide shows featured the 'hundreds' of people wearing the hat, and some of those sitting in the audience had small hand-held projectors that projected images on the backs of others. [...]'"
-- Cinémathèque québécoise

Source:
Gagnon, Monika Kin, and Vanessa Meyer. "Dossiers sur les collections : Joyce Wieland's Unfinished Films" Cinémathèque québécoise. http://collections.cinematheque.qc.ca/dossiers/joyce-wieland/bills-hat/.