Louise Weard
Louise Weard is a filmmaker with a degree in Film Semiotics. Hailing from Western Canada, she cut her teeth working as the cinematographer for FX legend Ryan Nicholson and emerged as an exciting new voice in underground horror with her breakout body-horror featurette Computer Hearts. Along with her filmmaking partner Dionne Copland, Louise established CyberCraft Video in 2016 and produced the short films Inferno and Haxx Deadroom, as well as the micro-budget queer slasher film Cuties. After film school she produced Dionne Copland’s feature-length debut, the cabin-in-the-woods creature-feature Cold Wind Blowing, which was released in 2022.
She has been obsessed with deeply personal (and perverse) movies that push the envelope for as long as she can remember, which culminated in her winning a Most Fearless Performance Award in 2015 for her short film S.I.D.S. in which she played herself as a transsexual woman seeking a back alley surgery. Nearly a decade after completing her debut film, Computer Hearts, it was rediscovered as a significant work of transgender horror cinema and screened at The Music Box in Chicago, IL during their Music Box of Horrors event in October 2022.
Her film theory writing encompasses work on the on-screen semiotics of the Marquis de Sade and a comprehensive history of films featuring phallic genital trauma, the latter of which can be found in the book Divergent Terror: The Crossroads of Queerness and Horror. In September 2022, she co-hosted the 100 Best Kills event at Fantastic Fest in a night dedicated to castration scenes in film.
For Louise, cinema is about illuminating the most secretive and problematic parts of the self and using storytelling to connect with other freaks and outcasts so that nobody has to feel alone. Her obsessions include ritual Magick, Gnosticism, and UFOs, and when she’s not making movies you’ll find her championing unsung visionary filmmakers through her film writing and her roles at various film festivals. She has also directed some extremely transgressive music videos for musical artists Ravine Angel and Lauren Bousfield, and while filming one she may have “accidentally” performed a ritual that made her trans.
Known For | Directing |
---|---|
Most Rating | 0.445 |
Birthday | 1994-03-04 |
Place of Birth | Saskatoon - Saskatchewan - Canada |
Also Known As |
2014
Computer Hearts
4.8/4
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.
Watch Now
Computer Hearts
2014
S.I.D.S.
7.2/2
After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek...
Watch Now
S.I.D.S.
2015
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
0/0
A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making.
Watch Now
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
2016
Chasing Rewind
8/1
A love letter to the video store.
Watch Now
Chasing Rewind
2020
Ravine Angel: Ambition
0/0
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.
Watch Now
Ravine Angel: Ambition
2022
100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction
0/0
100 Best Kills dates back to the earliest days of Fantastic Fest, a cornerstone of the fest’s grand tradition of lowbrow pandemonium. In previous year...
Watch Now
100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction
2024
The Estrogen Gospel
0/0
A young transgender woman takes a hike through the English countryside in an attempt to resolve her spiritual crisis - but an ancient evil strives to...
Watch Now
The Estrogen Gospel
2023
Cybergrime
0/0
Cybergrime is a disgusting erotic nightmare lovingly extracted from the fiber optic cable lodged in the slimiest depths of your brain. Oversaturated a...
Watch Now
Cybergrime
2024
Castration Movie
0/0
A transsexual sex worker wants to have a child and faces obstacles at every turn.
Watch Now