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This video is a body substitute, examining the ways in which new technology succeeds and fails as a holding medium for a long distance relationship.

Focusing on two parallel lesbian relationships this film reflects the reality of living with an 'invisible' disability, challenging preconceived notions of the illness to reveal how it operates outside the epileptic fit on a daily basis.

A distanced handling of two widespread problems seemingly caused of perpetuated by patriarchal values and capitalism: anorexia nervosa and starvation due to poverty.

LOOPHOLE aims to investigate the construction of conventional narrative. Inspired by Borges' Garden of forking paths, it attempts to reconstruct our perception of cinematic narrative and with it, escape the inexorable demise of the femme fatale that…

Fred and Frances Cook' is a TV cookery programme. Frances is the assistant and partner, who fred abandons.

A Lesbian mother and her son describe what they have in common, that includes parties, dressing up and shopping.

She watched herself being looked at She looked at herself being watched but could not perceive herself as the subject of the sentence…" (Lis Rhodes).

The tape combines drama and documentary to convey the significance of personal realisation in the face of broader political circumstances, and the relatonship between theory and practice.

Devised by London Lesbians in Health-Care, a diverse multi-disciplinary group of health-care workers, this tape is intended to raise awareness of lesbians as service users.

This wild spoof of TV magazine journalism takes a mock-serious look at a phenonmenon which is reportedly sweeping through the lesbian community.

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, LEILA AND THE WOLVES is an exploration of collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half century of the Middle-East, both in Palestine and…

LEGAL LIMBO is a documentary which investigates how women in Ireland live through the ordeal of the breakdown of marriage.

An advertisement for lesbianism that combines galmour and safe sex. Scenes from a 1920s grand ball are intercut with 90's erotica.

A journey through the mind of a lonely person, trapped within the space and leaving only by the power of memory.

In 1981 and 1982 Carole Isaacs and Julia Lesage visited Nicaragua and filmed in-depth interviews with women in the Managua area.

LADY LAZARUS is a visually woven response to Sylvia Plath's own readings of her poetry.

An innovative video that takes the impressionist motif of women working in the laundry and brings it up to date to incorporate contemporary women's feelings about domestic work.

This piece investigates the conjunction of sexuality with: the eye, as purveyor of desire; the sexual fear and fantasy of blindness with a focus on the blindfold; and women and AIDS.

Using an intriguing mixture of statistics, humour, insight and outrage, Jean Kilbourne questions how far the used and abused of women in advertising is connected to the sexual exploitation of women at large and the increasing incidence of child…

A tale of adopted personas compellingly bound to one another, killing time on a rainy afternoon.

A film exploring the lives of Asian lesbian and gay men in Britain and India.

I'm just a regular bloke…' Kelby's gender was decided for him at birth 'he later put right the mistake.

As a seemingly innocuous contemporary environment is transformed into a monument to a persistent past, we catch glimpses of how historic events can shape contemporary experience.

This tape juxtaposes intimate images of at-home-with-a-lesbian-couple and a monstrous catalogue of images of the police who descended in force on the March 28, 1989 New York City Hall demonstration held by the AIDS coalition to unleash power (ACT UP)

Popular conventions from TV, cinema and theatre are used to draw attention to issues raised by middle-class feminism. The format parodies typical soap opera programmes and in so doing highlights how, in its attempts to relfect ordinary life, soap…

JUST LIKE SARAH BERNHARDT humorously explores sexuality and Jewish identity, intertwining the complex relationship of performance and film. A woman tells a story of her intense meeting with another woman.

JUST BECAUSE OF WHO WE ARE is a challenging documentary, focusing on a subject rarely discussed by mainstream media: Violence against lesbians.

Three friends, a couple of nose rings, a birthday and a fillet o'fish. Caught between American pop culture and her traditional Indian heritage, Anita attempts to pierce her nose.

A woman, looking straight at the camera gives a 12-minute monologue. The camera remains stationary, looking at her, possibly judging her.

JOURNEY OF NO RETURN is a series of tableaux, put together as a fake autobiography of a woman.

A Celebration of hollywood actress Jodie Foster as an icon for lesbians.

JIGSAW is a film that examines autism, a state in which the mind locks into fantasy so that communication with the outside world becomes increasingly remote.

After attempts at exchanging cooking recipes, an intense domestic altercation and an episode with a heavy breather, Isolde and Seahell, two young women of opposite personalities, the one blithe and fun-loving, the other morbid and depressive, roam…

Hollywood's image subtext is the beginning for this broken narrative anti-dramatic film. Two women, a niece and her aunt, contemplate the familial cycles of relationships, death, secrets and confidences. Through their correspondence they question the…

Throughout the memories of a woman at her ironing board, the film lays before us the history of a mother-daughter relationship and its ever-changing moods.

Valie Export demonstrates the meanings and interventions of the media in our lives, while the sci-fi narrative becomes a surrel vehicle for her discussion of sexual and national politics.

Based on a poem 'Excuses for Not Moving', INTRUSIONS throughtfully explores the contradictions within the traditional role of the housewife.

This video explores the history of the day and shows highlights from activities organised by women around March 8th, focusing especially on events in Leeds.

Valentine Films presents a zany thriller, produced in Glorious Technicolor plasticine' In the hospital operating room a gynaecological examination is about to begin.

IN THE BEGINNING… OF THE END, is a film version of a multi-media audio-visual experience, which originally combined slides, Super-8, sound effects and music.

IN OUR HANDS, GREENHAM uses a video installation to convey women's struggle against nuclear weapons.

IN NOMINE DOMINI is an animation in ten parts, each of which illustrates the Church's historical endorsements of the repression of women.

A grainy black and white experimental film that uses performance to address the issue of a third sexuality that stands outside traditional gender representations.

IN LANDS WHERE SERPENTS SLEEP presents on one level a re-working of the myth of Narcissus. On other levels it offers a series of ideas about time, language, memory and how man came to see himself as the centre of the universe (and how women did not).

Inspired by the 'impulse' deodorant television advert, new meaning is created and underlying significance laid bare in this effectively subversive version.

IMPRESSIONS OF EXILE focuses on the personal struggle of three Chilean women, living in Britian, learning a new language, and dealing with the racism and isolation they experience.

Hot wheels, hot girls, hot cars, hot crashes. Gear up for a racy high octane overdrive of auto erotica…'

Made in film noir style, ILLUSIONS plays inventively on themes of cultural, racial and sexual domination…

This powerful documentary focuses on HIV-positive women and women with AIDS in New York State, making the transition form prison to independent living.

In the 1970's the actor Sir Alex Guinness wrote a letter of complaint to the The Times newspaper about the lack of attention shop assisants gave to customers.