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This documentary takes a critical look at the conditions of employment for the one in three women who work as typists, receptionists, clerks and secretaries in Great Britian and exmaines why women in these positions are often underpaid and exploited.

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

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.

A PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH confronts debilitating illness with creative vitality, simultaneously desperate and defiant.

This short drama is a humorous exploration of a woman regaining power as she challenges male supremacy in culture, the porn industry and film.

HOME-MADE MELODRAMA follows the struggles of three women whose search for harmony takes them through pressures and contradictions, jealousies and insecurities.

An experimental documentary that speaks to issues surrounding what is 'black enough'.

A tribute to African-American women activisits, whose violent actions were often characterised as being the result of mental illness.

A lyrical, sensual place which deals with issues surrounding skin colour and codes of Blackness.

DIANA was produced initially for the Portsmouth Rape Crisis Line for training purposes and to raise questions in the mind of 'professional' people who come into contact with women who have been raped or sexually assaulted.

A satire on the stereotyped images of lesbians, each scene is also a take-off of a different genre of Hollywood film - the source of so many of our stereotypes.

A warm film, which uses humour to make the experience of growing up gay accessible to everyone.

A Girl’s Own Story offers a lyrical exploration of three young girls on the brink of womanhood in a ‘60s Australia in a state of cultural flux. Ideas explored here – including the inherent violence of sexuality; dysfunctional relationships and the…

THE DEATH OF A FATHER sets out to explore the way in which women are rendered silent, absent or marginal within a male-centered language system.

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).

This tape is a confrontation/diaologue between the filmmarker and her mother, both naked. The gap between intention and expression is explored as the camera isolates parts of the body, and the women speak of how the image relates to themselves and…

In I DISH a woman searches for and finds, then carefully digs out, a fish from a vast wet beach.

A personal film which attempts to convey the feeling of those women who find themselves in an arranged marriage.

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…

Exploring both dance and some of the properties of film, MANTRA begins by recreating movement through a rhythmic series of still images.

FOCII brings together performance, art and film. A woman dances and mimes, her stark white image moving across a red floor, reflected in a fractured wall of mirrors.

Taking 100 feet of film shoot at a childrens party.

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.

It is the story of seventy years of change and upheaval, the gradual disintegration of the traditional family and the search for new forms and ways of relating as typified by Jeni's attempt to break the pattern of the past and to create a new…

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

Nostalgia and memory are combined with the theme of departures and arrival symbolised by the activity of the city.

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 saccharine tune from the 50's Mickey Mouse Club is transformed into a wild samba celebration of contemporary lesbian expression.

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.

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…

EXILES is a portrait of age and ageing, memories recollected at the end of longer lives. Memories and routines are woven together in a moving and compelling portrait of past and present.

Rachel is a Jewish woman, in her early forties, living alone in a small council flat in a tower block in the city. She never leaves the flat and has retreated into a life of repetitive domestic ritual.

ALL IN YOUR HEAD raises the profile of epilepsy in an exciting and imaginative way and aims to challenge stereotypes about this 'invisible' disability which affects at least 1 in 200 of the population

Based on a Christina Rossetti's romantic poem of the same name, GOBLIN MARKET tells the story of two sisters tempted by goblins to eat enchanted fruit.

GIFT OF A GIRL concentrates on the movement to stop female infanticide rather than the tragedies of its victims.

Jo Spence takes us through photographs from her 'family album', blowing the dust off and looking a bit harder at the things society ignores so that we may confront ourselves and accept what we usually cover up.'

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…

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.

This documentary is about the life and work of Ella Baker, veteran American Civil Rights campaigner, a militant political activist who became best known for her championing of non-violent methods of civil disobedience.

This situation comedy revolves around Emma who has just left her husband and moved with her daughter Jenny to live with her lover, middle class Diana.

MAMA I’M CRYING is a lively documentary about the personal story of a Black woman, Joyce Seroke, and a white Jewish woman, Betty Wolpert

This compelling and beautifully made documentary tells the life story of Blue Lunden, a lesbain/feminist peace activist who found herself run out of New Orleans during the 1950s for wearing men's clothes.

Girls' school stories have been uniquely popular with girls worldwide throughout the 20th century, but the genre has faced widespread dismissal, critiscism, hostility and redicule for ites representations of a girl - and women - centered world.

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.

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…

SPACE INVADERS is a science fantasy that maps the terrain of what might have been regarded, in the 60's, as a 'global village', the giant video screen of the disco, the home television and the video arcade game.

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.

MYSTERIES is a photomontage film, Beginning with a quotation from a dream , it becomes the filmmakers interpretation of the harvest and the old mystic theme of Mysteries.

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)

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