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YOU GOT TO MOVE is an empowering, uplifting documentary about extraordinary people involved in various social change movements in the American South and how they move from feeling powerless to taking action.

Using domestic objects the film looks at woman's struggle to free her from an imposed role in a society that feeds her psychical reality.

A poem made from cut-ups of American women's magazines; a soundtrack by the legendary Wink Hackman Disco All Stars; shots of Chicago reminiscent of Warhol's silk screen prints; a computerisation in Adobe Photoshop of Stars and Stripes and Duane…

Working with footage of wrestlers and eager audiences - by the ringside and in front of their TV sets - the film examines peoples responses to images of violence as entertainment.

An erotic, witty and disturbing film. An intriguing mix of fact and fiction.

Contrary to the usual portrayal of Black and 'Third World' women in media, WORDS IN ACTION shows women as a powerful and articulate force in world politics.

WOMEN OF THE RHONDDA turns much needed attention to the role played by women in the gruelling Welsh Miners' Strikes of the 20s and 30s

In this documentary, women munitions workers recall the part they played during the Second World War; the types of work they did in factories and the conditions.

WOMEN IN VIEW is an infortmative documentary about a group of women artists.

This superbly shot film is a moving docu-drama which allowed the women of South Lebanon to spek for themselves, using archive footage, interviews and the dramatic reconstruction of the experience of Khadijeh, a Lebanese woman.

WOMAN FOR A CHANGE is a documentary highlighting the British govenments aid policies and practices in relation to womens in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

A fast, witty and pertinent film which pulls apart the dominant (male) ideology of art through the ages and points an instructive (female) finger at all those who never looked further than the image itself.

WHO TAKES THE RAP - IMMIGRATION covers the history of immigration law in Britain from 1903 to the present day.

The spectator is put in the position of Maisie, given a child's eye view, a position outside the knowledge.

In her quest for true love and human contact, Mona (Indra Ove, interview with a Vampire) is persuaded to try cybersex, which is emotionally and physically safe.

Judith Higginbottom's WATER INTO WINE draws on the collective experiences of 27 women, including her, recordered over 13 lunar months.

November 1985 - for the first time in Britian women take part in a national Olympic Weight Lifting Championship.

This short animated film is designed to encourage energy conversation in the home, the school and the workplace.

Poetic and passionate in tone, yet clearly focused on its message, WARRIOR MASKS unlocks some of the cultural and political complexes surrounding the issue of female fenital mutilation.

With courage and honesty three rape victims explore the immediate trauma of rape and reveal the long-term psychological effects of this all too common violent crime.

Filmed in the markets, streets and hospitals of Baghdad, offers an insight into the emotional and social legacy of continuous conflict in Iraq.

VITAL STATISTICS… looks at the objectification of women in a technological/bureaucratic society.

VISIONS is a hopeful documentary centered around four teenage girls, their expectations in relations to work, the sort of power and control they feel they have over their futures and how they connect their dreams with real-life expectations.

A celebration and a record of some of the many flight back events against Section 28 of the Local Government Act.

Made with young lesbians ages between 16 and 23 from Newcastle, Liverpool and London, this warm and engaging film explores the ups and downs of being lesbain in a predominately heterosexual and homophobic society geared to wedding bells and boys.

The story of a young woman who gets the idea to make and market a shallow and exploitative tape serves as the core narrative.

A simple and touching drama situated around an encounter between a second generation Australian-Italian teenager abd a traditional Italian widow.

Using a kaledoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines.

This autobiographical film shows the video maker lost her fear of technology and learned to love her motocyle instead.

A documentary that looks at the limits and censorship of erotic images.

The filmmaker returns to the American girls' camp of her childhood to relive old memories of togetherness in the wild.

A comic tale in three parts, with each intoduced by a reading from Dante's Divine Comedy.

Traces is a short digital film that explores the linage of family resemblance using a computer to animate photographic stills.

Using a metaphor of peeling skin, images from the filmmaker's family history are combined with black and white images of famour paintings. A woman is seen being physically manipulated into each of the archetypal representations failing upon her skin.

Made in 1951, this coumentary about women's employment states its case through carefully reasoned arguments articulated by Wendy Hiller's vehement commentary, accompained by powerful visual footage of women at work together, and historical archive…

TIME MACHINE is a comment on the representation of history within the age of the 90s computer technology.

The documentary of the struggles in Australia for equal pay for women concentrating on the case put forward by the Australian Council for Trade Unions (ACTU) that traditional woman's professions be measured against traditional men's professions to…

The film explores language, communication and fragile development of relationships.

TIME AND TIME AGAIN focuses on the lives of women in prision through interviews with four ex-prisoners.

Once upon a time, a princess set out to look for a job which would make fill use of her abilities. To her surprise, she found a series of barriers place in her path - simply because she was a woman.

The first 'episode', a black comedy is simple called 'Penis Envy' and finds a bride with a banana - eating it, spitting it out, cutting it up…

Through taped interviews, photographs and songs introducing each section, THREE JEWISH WOMEN, in their 50s and 60s, describe their experiences of being immigrants or daughters of immigrants.

Shot in 16mm but origonally conceived as a three screen piece of video this film is a delicious and curious exploration of familiar objects and the sounds they make.

THIS ISN'T WONDERLAND explores the meaning and politics of 'women and madness' from a feminist perspective, threading together elements of narrative, theatre and documentary.

Babette Mangolte has called THERE? WHERE? An essay on displacement

THEY WORK THEY SAY IS MINE celebrates women's central role in the past and present of Shetland life.

The novel aspects of the theme raised in Helen Doyle's tape are represented by her attempts to forge conceptual links between creativity and madness inwomen.

A woman locked up in a cell, and deprived of any outside stimulus, begins to fantasise about the women in the next cell, to the extent that fantasy and reality are no longer separate entities

Set in 1977, THE WEEK ELVIS DIED is an evocative and bittersweet look at life from a child's point of view.

THE WAY OF THE WICKED is a humorous fast-cut short film which uawa rhw wvocative rite of a child's first Holy Communion as a starting point to question childhood and innocence, repression and abuse and the thrills of transgression.