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Part journey film and part photographic collage, SEED OF SARAH takes us through the momeories of hungarian Holocaust survivor and author Judith Magyar Isaacson.

A look at the intersection of cultures and classes as exemplified the street life of San Francisco's Mission District.

A witty animated short film about the taboos around menstruation.

The film features the story of a mother who has recently discovered that the girl's father has sexually abused her six-year-old daughter.

This piece was based on a series of my own mestrual dreams about the sea.' (Judith Higginbottom)

SCUOLA SENZA FINE shows how the experiment extended into the lives of women takingthe course, most of whom were housewives. The film was produced in collaboration with these students as part of their studies for the class, turning the cirriculum's…

A video poem of remembrance made in memory of a young Asian woman killed by three white youths on the streets of London in 1985

Loosely based on the 1950's British detective film Sapphire, in which two detectives investigate the murder of a young woman who is passing for white.

A black and white Trans-Alantic road movie set in the American mid-west where driving is as essential as breathing.

Suction Termination of pregnancy is examined in terms of the process as it is carried out and the effect that is may have on the woman.

In October 1986, nurses in Australia began a strike which was to last for 50 days. Despite intense indoctrination to be 'good girls', nurses walked out of hospitals, community health centres, intensive care units and labour wards.

RUNNING LIGHT is about enforced labour and displaced persons, in two places, in two periods of the 20th Century.

The story of a love affair its demise told through one of the primary objects shared by the couple: an old beige station wagon with fake wooden panellings along the sides.

A sharply sexy story of personal awakening. When Kay moves into a new flat, she finds herself unexpectedly intrigued by the open sexuality of the lesbian couple that live next door.

ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITANS mixes music, family and food to take a wry look at the myth of the Jewish princess and asks 'What is a Jew?'

Ritual In Transfigured Time silently follows Rita Christiani’s perspective as she enters an apartment to find Maya Deren immersed in the ritual of unwinding wool from a loom. Deren includes another expression of the external invading the internal…

This lively animated film deals with the important issue of health and safety at work.

An illuminating exposure and investigation into the participation of women in fascist parties, filmed across Europe.

RETHINKING RAPE examines why sexual violence has become such an acceptable part of society, and 'acquaintance rape' (when the rapiest is known to the woman) so commonplace.

Stunningly shot (originally on 35mm) and beautifully edited, RESERVAAT is a witty pastiche about women and nature.

I wanted to express my continued anger at the way in which partiarchy excludes women who don't conform to its ideals and beliefs from history.' (Judith Higginbottom)

Sound and images collide to a reggae beat in this short but effective black and white video.

A documentary film that looks at the process of rediscovering women's history, using the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike as a focal point. The Rent Strike was a protest against Glasgow's landlords who were exploting the war situation.

This video was completed as part of an undergraduate thesis, intended to expose the negative character that has been historically assigned to the roles and images of Black women by films and television.

RASH takes a furtive look at female sexual fetishism through an imaginary voyahe around the body.

This film effectively explores those elements in our society that contribute to an ideology that supports rage.

This evocatively entertaining film is a fairy tale about a northern Italian girl growing up in suburban Australia.

Cathy lives an apparently uneventful life in Birmingham, until she is asked to write an article for a community magazine.

Rainer's 6th feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been denied on film by virtually everybody.

PRETEND YOU'LL SURVIVE uses a combination of different animation techniques to conjure up a thought-provoking challenge to prehaps the greatest threat we face in the Twentieth Century.

This documentary on obstetrics takes a succinct and radical look at the history, sociology and politics - no to mention physiology - of childbirth.

A documentary portraying three Indian women whose families came to New Zealand as early as the 1890’s. As they carve out their identities a hybridity emerges.

This incidence of POLOGAMY amongst educated women in Senegal is actually on the increase. More and more women are choosing to become a man's second or third wife

A poem by the Munirah Theatre Company, urging Black people living in Britian to treasure their history, gives this video its title.

Is the woman worker at the terminals an extension of the plutonium-decanning monitors, or is she a gem in the nuclear plant that grows into self-control.

This video looks at what has happened to the 'Women Against Pit Closures' movement since the end of the 1984-85 Miners' strike.

A recording of eleven women in order of their age, from a child of 6 months to a women of 82. Each child/woman was asked to sit in the playpen for 2 mins and, without direction, left to their own devices.

In this closely textured work, pictures and meanings are experimented with, brought richly together or pared down to abstraction in order to challenge and re-create.

A set of photographs taken by police in 1922 a contemporary woman who has come across the photographs is haunted by them and tries to imagine what might have happened… the stills become animated, two characters appear and disappear.

A trip through the psyche of the 'post Holocaust' woman. An avant garde musical of musing on the philosophy of despair and its bittersweet humour.

PERILS is an homage to silent films: the clash of ambiguous innocence and unsophisticated villainy.

Set in the years 1916-18 PEASANT WOMEN OF RYAZAN portrays life in a close-knit rural community in Revolutionary Russia concentrating on the oppression of women in that community.

This humorous animated film graphically demonstrates the way in which men dominate language, monopolise space and structure women into subservient roles.

The film regards surgery of Asian (prodominantly women) eyelids as a self-effacing fantasy of attaining the standard of beauty as maintained in this society, a standard which demands conformity to the norm of being average.

Drawing on Western histories of glamour, Hollywood and powerful Jewish icons such as Barbra Streisand as portrayed in the 1960's film Funny Girl.

ONE AND THE OTHER TIME is an erotically charged experimental film exploring the dynamics between intimacy and violence.

An examination of a breakdown on one'sown language. It is record of a personal struggle in trying to construct meaning as an outsider in foreign culture.

Set against the backdrop of modern-day Sydney, this heist-style thriller involves four politicalised women from varying backgrounds, who conspire to sabotage the research programme of a multi-national firm, Utero, which is engaged in reproductive…

A faithful adaptation of Dorothy Bussy's autobiographical novel. OLIVIA is the story of an English girl sent to finishing school in France towards the end of the 19th Century.

OFTEN DURING THE DAY focuses on the activities that take place in the kitchen. A series of delicately tinted black and white stills draw our attention to those familiar corners of the kitchen where dirt gets trapped; the dark stains left by tea…