Citation :
« During recent years [Joyce] Wieland has grown increasingly nationalistic in her politics. It was natural then that sometime in 1969 she would become consumed (there's no other word for it) by a desire to 'reach a wider audience with stories about Canada in a dramatic form.' This desire is what led her to make her first feature film, The Far Shore. [...] What happened between 1969, when the idea came to her, and this month, when the film is being released across the country, is, at various times and from various angles, the story either of the lamb in the lion's den or the bull in the china shop. Wieland, an artist in the best sense of the word, found herself immersed in the world of commercial filmmaking, in which the artist seldom figures and almost never wins. »
-- Doug Fetherling

Source :
FETHERLING, Doug. « Joyce Wieland in Movieland: What was a fine artist doing in a world of hype and hustle? », Toronto Star, 24 janvier 1976. [en anglais]