Lisa Steele

Modern Love is the story of Xerox operator, Robin, who falls in love with a sleazy show business type named Lamont Del Monte. Their disastrous love affair is paralleled by a frustrating relationship between Heidi (who only speaks German) and Pierre (who only speaks French).

Made shortly after the death of her grandfather, whom Steele and Campbell had visited in Kansas en route to L.A., The Ballad of Dan Peoples shows Steele reciting violent and looping memories in front of the video camera while clutching a glass-framed photograph.

A docudrama about Leo Mantha, the last man hanged in British Columbia who, in 1958 murdered his male lover on a Victoria naval base. The film explores the crime within the context of mainstream society and the gay subculture in 1950s Canada.

“Talking Tongues” (10 min.) finds Steele delivering a monologue as Beatrice Small, a woman who was abused by her husband. - True/False program

Made shortly after the death of her grandfather, whom Steele and Campbell had visited in Kansas en route to L.A., The Ballad of Dan Peoples shows Steele reciting violent and looping memories in front of the video camera while clutching a glass-framed photograph.

Set in a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1944 in the heart of the Canadian prairies, The Blood Records: written and annotated explores the world of a young girl, ill with tb. Struggling to escape her diseased body, her spirit roams freely throughout the long days and nights, reminiscing about her family, fearful of the fate of a beloved older brother who is fighting in The War, missing her native language (French) which is now foreign to her tongue after two years in the English hospital and idolizing the handsome but distant war correspondent who has just been admitted. A haunting tale of disease and loss, the work infuses the irrevocably sad memories of the girl with a hope only possible through survival. Visually compelling, with austere tableau shot on location in real sanatoria lending a feeling of inevitability to each scene. A tale told within the skin of consciousness.

"When I was 15, I came home from school to find my mother dead. This tape describes the day of her death. Until I did this tape, I had never completely recounted this experience. The tape is an attempt to remember as accurately as possible one day in my life - to let memory become the present tense." L.S.

"On the occasion of my 27th birthday I decided to do a tape that chronicled my passage through time. I have always been clumsy, tripping, dropping, falling with alarming regularity. This tape accepts the extent of the consequences." L.S.

In “The Gloria Tapes” (55 min.) Steele draws from soap opera convention, as she creates a penetrating look at a woman navigating the welfare system.

The Afternoon Knows What the Morning Never Suspected reflects on Steele's own history as a war resister who found refuge in Canada through a reading session in which two young women, both war refugees, share passages about the history of the Vietnam War and Canada's role in the conflict as a war profiteer.

Two scientists, portrayed by Steele and Campbell, kiss and grope one another passionately while coldly detailing their research.