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Once upon a time, a princess set out to look for a job which would make fill use of her abilities. To her surprise, she found a series of barriers place in her path - simply because she was a woman.

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

This film uses a 'scene' between a woman and a female-to-male transsexual to mobilise Giles Deleuze's work on masochism as explored in his book - 'Coldness and Cruelty'.

STIGMATA is a riveting look at body modification such as tattooing, cutting, piercing and branding, practices which are becoming increasingly popular amoungst women.

AN EPIC POEM explores the contradictions in man's conception of love through the myths and representations, which support it, and argues that man has contructed love in his own image, reflecting his profound anxieties about prohibited desires.

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.

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.

AGAINST THE CURRENT is an experiemental documentary which takes both an historical and a contemporary look at the lack of control women have over their own bodies, focusing mainly on childbirth and developments in reproductive technologies.

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.

A rich and evocative experimental film using a collage of superimposed images, live action, urban landscapes, unsettling sounds and the spoken poetic words of an unseen woman.

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).

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.

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

Thirteen 1 minute films which grew out of a series of short poems written by Lis Rhodes, reflecting on the traditional patterns of oppression in women's lives (pornography, violence, nuclear weapons) and the many forms that resistance takes.

MADE IN CHINA is a personal film about a Chinese American's search for identity.

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.

Although rooted in the Victorian values of the time, A House Divided breaks with the dominant tradition.

Sophisiticated story-telling full of digression, sharply-observed detail and a great deal of wi as well as a campaigning spirit, all to be found in THE BLOT

NO LONGER SILENT takes a revealing look at aspects of this discrimination and at the determination of some Indian women to bring about change.

A documentary that looks at the limits and censorship of erotic images.

A short animation depicting an ironic take on the Garden of Eden staring 'eve & eve'.

In 1998, Managua, Nicaragua became host to one of the most publicised and controversial cases of sexual abuse to hit modern day Latin America.

YOU GOT TO MOVE is an empowering, uplifting documentary about extraordinary people involved in various social change movements in the American South and how they move from feeling powerless to taking action.

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 video-film-music documentary by and about the dykes beginning to find culture/lives they can stand through punk rock.

This visually rich and haunting film follows the journey of a young woman, Cait, through her pain from a broken relationship to her eventual resolution.

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.

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…

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

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…

This superbly shot film is a moving docu-drama which allowed the women of South Lebanon to spek for themselves, using archive footage, interviews and the dramatic reconstruction of the experience of Khadijeh, a Lebanese woman.

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.

The traditional expectations of an Indian family in the South Pacific (NZ) are confronted in this short drama written and directed by Mandrika Rupa.

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.

A Channel 4 documentary, co-produced with the Arts Council, looking at the work of four women film makers - Annabel Nicolson, Lis Rhodes, Jo Davis and Tina Keane - and the role of Circles in providing a historical and contemporary context for women…

The film is about internal and external states ofemergency, about personal and collective 'shadows' (past, memories and conditioned stereotypes), about resistance and spirit.

Tenosynovitis is a work-relationed disease - a form of Repetitive strain injury - which is now the most common cause of lost working time for women and the third most common for men.

FOR LOVE OR MONEY is an exhilarating, superbly crafted feature length film. It tells the story of women's working lives throughout Australia's history.

A woman sits in an armchair and watches television. Behind the sceen lies the sociopathy of her daily life.

TIME MACHINE is a comment on the representation of history within the age of the 90s computer technology.

This autobiographical film shows the video maker lost her fear of technology and learned to love her motocyle instead.

A poem made from cut-ups of American women's magazines; a soundtrack by the legendary Wink Hackman Disco All Stars; shots of Chicago reminiscent of Warhol's silk screen prints; a computerisation in Adobe Photoshop of Stars and Stripes and Duane…

Witty and provocative I'M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT… shakes the foundations upon which fundamental inequalities have been built by skilfully confronting sexism at its own game.

This is a documentary animated film based on the true story of Josie O'dwyer, and using her own voice as personal commentary.

A documentary that celebrates the achievements of the world's first woman filmmaker, including clips from 16 of her films.

This beautiful and powerful documentary tells the stories of the women who compries the labour force of Colombian flower industry in the plain of Bogota.

Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture, under certain circumstances, as it appears as a guest editorial in Newsweek magazine in 1982. Her critique is presented as a voiceover and a dizzying assemblage of radio and…

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

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

SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN invents an 'alphabet' of kitchen apppliances and these recognisable 'signs' of domestic industry become instruments of mad music or interpersonal violence - a vehicle for the rage and frustration of the unsimiling antithesis…