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This piece uses animated photographs to produce powerful flashing imagery of a womans face moving closer and closer, staring at the viewer with deep burning passion.

COALMINING WOMEN is a documentary about women who have forced their way into 'men's work' in order to gain access to decent wage.

Affectionate and witty, CLOTHESLINE is on the one hand a documentary on laundry and a social portrait of an America literally strewn with clotheslines, and on the other an exploration of the wide range of responses that can exist within apparently…

A Video which uses slides to isolate and emphasise the actions two girls made while singing traditional clapping songs.

CHOOSING CHILDREN is an endearing, often funny, film about lesbians and their children

When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to her hometown of Nablus after a fourteen year absence, she discovered a new generation of Palestinian fighters: the children of the Intifada. Children of Fire captures their courageous story on film and paints a…

Esther Kahn…, my alter ego, play's Blanche Dubois, Stanley Kowalski, and many others as she battles with herself with the madness of a jealous lover.

A wishful memory of days gone swimming.

CHANGING TIME uses a process of recounting to deal with the film-makers's own experience of sexual assault when she was a child of eight years old.

This film creates a visual dialogue between the seen, recognised and unrecognised.'

The film's central theme of desire/passion is deeply embedded in a culture which is given its own voice through the beat of the clay pot used in north India.

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CASUAL SHOPPER is set in a suburban shopping mall. To the sound of muzak we watch a woman stroll from one store to another, fondling merchandise and pausing only to react to the inquiries of hopeful salespeople.

an impressionistic drama about Louise, a young black girl growing up in Britiain. Going to a predominantly white school and with a busy mother who is unable to give her the attention she wants, Louise turns to her Jamaican grandmother, via letters,…

CAST creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invae worlds in which they do not normally belong.

CARMEN CARRASCAL presents a vivid and moving picture of life high in the mountains of Colombia.

Through a series of interviews with a cross-section of women, this documentary examines the working conditions faced by outworkers and looks at the positive actions which have been taken by the workers themselves and by campaign groups.

CANT YOU TAKE A JOKE is a comedy about a stole sense of humour and the search for a romantic love.

The notion of Babylon arose from contemplation of the Tanakh opening it at random the filmmaker found references to wrathful vengeance, human folly and the idea of evil as a human choice.

An interview with artist Rose Finn-Kelcey on her exhibition at Matts Gallery, London, 1988.

Hilarious send-up of psychoanalytical propaganda films, illustrating every absurd cliché about the 'lesbian nature' and raising issues of self-representation and media production.

Marlene is a police woman, Peter is an army officer and Bharti is a social worker. What they have in common as black people is that they were transracially placed (adopted/fostered) with White/Asian familes at childhood.

BRED AND BORN features four generations of women in an East London family who talk about their own experiences and close family ties, and a womens group who discuss their roles as mothers and daughters.

Addresses the realistic difficulties facing mothers who decide to breast-feed their newly born children, and contains interviews and anecdotes from midwives, doctors, sociologists, mothers, fathers and children. Raises questions regarding hospital…

In a society, which labels lesbians as masculine, man-hating and less than female, how are lesbians who choose to have children treated?

Combining a lively mix of animation and interviews BREAKING THE MOULD examines why women, in particular, suffer from eating disorders.

Carried out over a period of four years, her research reveals not only the sheer number of children who are victims of incest and other forms of sexual abuse, but a justice system that fails to followthrough with prosecution when incidents occur.

In this documentary, four women recount their lives in Australia during the bleak years of the economic depression of the 1930s.

A slice of San Francisco life in the summer of '93. Matt and Jo sit together in their back yard and talk about their daddy/boy relationship, transgender, life/love, tattoos and tomato plants.

New York; ten years after the most peaceful revolution that the world has ever seen. The governing Socialist party is emphasising the need for unity on the slow road to reform.

This experimental narrative tells the melancholy story of a young dyke pining over a one-night stand with a straight girl.

A lone woman(the artist herself) is followed on three dreamlike journeys where she discovers her sexuality and samples the forbidden fruit of Dr. Freud.

Claudia von Alemann's feature-length film, BLINDSPOT, is about an historian who is researching the life of Flora Tristan, a 19th century socialist and feminist rarely mentioned in conventional history books.

A documentary exploring, through interviews with women workers, the effects of work on women’s health, including the issues of poor working conditions and wages, stress, chemicals, noise, lifting, sexual harassment, migrant workers, and homeworkers.

A Dominatrix comes home from work to relieve her slave frustration in a piercingly tender love scene. An erotic adventure from start to finish.

The area concerning female nudity is a difficult one. The subject of female sexuality is one too often avoided. The problem with avoidance is that nothing happens at all.

BIRTHRITES is a film about 'natural' childbirth. It presents one woman's experience of giving birth as filmed by another woman, without any insistence on simple answers.

Simone and Kaya are lovers trying desperately escape New York City and the reality of their friends Ayo's abusive relationship.

The film examines the meaning and the implicaition of deforming the bodies of women to match them to the symbols of man's imagination.

In 1993, Bikini Kill toured the UK with grrrl associates Huggy Bear. Lucy Thane made a documentary about the trip, also featuring appearances from the Raincoats, Sister George, and Skinned Teen.

A 4 minute television intervention piece commissioned by Channel 4, celebrating Glasgow as the European cultural capital for 1990

Seventeen year old girls Jill and Oona explore their sexuality in between bouts of boxing and playfighting. Yet when Oona invites Jill back to her house, the sparring spills over into something much more intense.

BED-TIME STORY questions how attitudes are often placed in our subconscious minds at an early age through 'childrens stories'

Set to smooth, jazzy, smoky, bar-room music, two youngwomen safely lock themselves in a make-believe bathroom.

The piece continues the artist's concern with what she calls 'the domestic scene' which she used to address issues of sexuality and the construction of the feminine identity.

BACK TO JOSIE is set during a hot summer's day on a disused railway viaduct stretching over the heart of London.

Inspired by the film maker's poem of the same name, BACK INSIDER HERSELF urges African-American women to reject images placed on her…' from people who don't hear her need and don't need her here'.. And discover her own identity.

The tape is a personal re-creation of the role of women talking, singing, acting, myths.

An experiement in entering imaginatively the delirium of Lower East Side, poignant and beautiful vision of late twentieth century urban life.