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A “narrative” film centered on young artists living in New York City around 1979. The film is about a certain stage in the development of a young artist confronting the real world in terms of her own idealistic notions of what art is supposed to do.…

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

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

A celebration of lesbian sensuality and sexuality. An evocative montage of 110 images of touch -women touching, hair brushing, water stroking, bathing, eathing and loving - an erotic lesbian commercial.

THE FEMALE CLOSET takes an historical look at the world of 'high art' through the lives and work of three women artists.

This film explores the extensive network of political leaders, drug smugglers and weapons dealers and examines the effect of covert US foreign policy on communities throughout the world.

This lesbian re-working of Kenneth Anger's homoerotic classic, is a heady mis of influences from the avant garde to girl gang movies - Eisenstein to Prisoner Cell Block H.

A hallucinogenic experience on a sunny afternoon to a soundtrack of Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit'.

A featurette which uses the female buddy movie to explore the relationship between a woman and her dog.

SPACE DOG ASSASSIN features Pit Bull Production's indefatigable star Maisie as the dog who fell to the earth; her assignment: 'To kill the cabinet!'

I'LL BE THERE FOR ALL TIME is an informative and entertaining film which challenges the popular notion that women's place is in the home. Its basic premise is that a knowledge of women's history is essential: without it, women are always beginning…

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

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

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

Using some of the devices of the genre of melodrama - the staircase, the father - as some kind of destiny.

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

Made by a single mother, MUM'S THE WORD looks at three single mothers, living on social security benefit or pensions, and explores how they maintain thei families and survive - often below the 'poverty line'.

in 1929 Nell Logan took part in a youth peace conference in Moscow. More than 50 years later she was among the women fighting against Cruise missiles at Greenham Common.

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

WHAT DO LESBIANS DO IN BED? With a star-studded soundtrack, we're shown women doing everything in bed from knitting and drinking tea to having raucous pillow-fights

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

Based on a poignant autobiographical essay by Woodson, this video adaption illustrates the pull between desire for (religious) community and personal freedom.

A humorous fast-paced parody of women dancing, cruising and picking up women at New York City's legendary Clit Club.

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

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)

This unconventional comedy explores women's sexuality through candid stories of sexual discoveries, fantasies and pleasures.

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

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

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.

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.

A personal exploration of the isolation experienced by women with eating disorders

In FOR GOOD Angie, Helen and Geoff, who suffer from cerebral palsy, talk about their experiences of living in that able-bodied world.

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.

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.

AND WHAT DOES YOUR MOTHER DO? Is a humorous film which cleverly uses the technique of speeded-up action, to expose basic inequalities built into the traditional family structure, which lay the bulk of responsibility and pressure on women.

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

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.

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

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.

Based on a true story about the filmmaker's grandmother who, after the death of her mother, put a shrine to St Mary Magdalene in a wood. The Department of Transport now plans to build a new motorway running straight through the wood. Looks at how the…

A tale of ordinary obession about a dishevelled dyke who discovers the key to an older woman's art deco flat.

This is the first known Irish film by a lesbian writer/director to be shot in Ireland by an almost-entirely Irish crew and deals with themes of invisibility, difference and self-expression.

A witty animated short film about the taboos around menstruation.

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…

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

Home after a formal occasion, Tilly and Ben get ready for bed. Tilly anticipates the night ahead but all Ben wants to do is sleep.

A part-dramatised, often humour, documentary showing some of the ways the state and the system have pushed women into economic dependence on men in different historical periods, the fights wages against this and the situation at the present time.

The comedy industry has always put women and Black people in the firing line - which makes I BE DONE BEEN WAS IS all the more important.

This animated film deals with the sheer rediculousness of women office workers' daily routine.

SEPARATE SKIN intercuts present day 'reality' with both flashbacks and fantasy sequences revealing Emily's state of mind as she battles with her fears and desires.