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A tongue-and-cheek presentation of the booklet that accompanies a newly-marketed, modern cooking applicance: an electric wok.

VITAL STATISTICS… looks at the objectification of women in a technological/bureaucratic society.

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

November 1985 - for the first time in Britian women take part in a national Olympic Weight Lifting Championship.

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FASTER PRINCESS uses a mixture of live action, cut-outs and pop-up animation to tell the story a young woman preparing herself for the ball… a ball with a difference.

FIRST COMMUNION pieces together a montage if images and memories.

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

At Land has a dream-like narrative in which a woman, played by Deren, is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey encountering other people and other versions of herself. Deren once said that the film is about the struggle to maintain ones…

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

Ritual In Transfigured Time silently follows Rita Christiani’s perspective as she enters an apartment to find Maya Deren immersed in the ritual of unwinding wool from a loom. Deren includes another expression of the external invading the internal…

Two women living the same apartment block are drawn to each other. Each is unaware of the other's desire, but a shared erotic fantasy develops between them.

FIRST BASE is a light-hearted drama focusing on the moment at which girls are still allowed to love other girls.

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

Made with young lesbians ages between 16 and 23 from Newcastle, Liverpool and London, this warm and engaging film explores the ups and downs of being lesbain in a predominately heterosexual and homophobic society geared to wedding bells and boys.

With courage and honesty three rape victims explore the immediate trauma of rape and reveal the long-term psychological effects of this all too common violent crime.

Life was a series of routines, and Sunday was the day of the week. Each New Year, I would check what day Christmas fell on. If it were a Sunday it meant we didn't have to go to Church twice in one week and the whole year felt better.' (Merilee…

In this remarkable and ground-breaking

Confusion, underlying meaning and unspoken truths are often associated with the dialectic of sexual communication. Mingled with the intensity and unpredictability of a “one night stand,” they generate unique sensations – mixed emotion, risk, and…

THE DISPLACED VIEW is a film that moveingly dpicts the odyssey of an American-born Japanese granddaughter in search of her identity through her grandmother who is the last of the family born in Japan.

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…

Filmed in the markets, streets and hospitals of Baghdad, offers an insight into the emotional and social legacy of continuous conflict in Iraq.

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

THE THIRD WOMAN is a drama about an Iranian woman in an Islamic resistance group during the post-revolutionary period.

Ostensibly a film about the experience of Australian women and their education, SNAKES AND LADDERS is a feminist documentary of great humour and artist merit.

Homai Vyarawalia was a pioneer in the field of documentary photography. She began taking photographs in the 1930s her work spans more than three decades in the birth of the 'young India' and she is responsible for some of the key images through which…

This evocatively entertaining film is a fairy tale about a northern Italian girl growing up in suburban Australia.

A simple and touching drama situated around an encounter between a second generation Australian-Italian teenager abd a traditional Italian widow.

Black Voices, the Birmingham based all-female group of cappella singers expresses through the lyrics of songs, fused with free-style movement of dances, the issue of the high incidence of serious mental health illness amoung Carribean immigrants in…

Quoting the techings of Aristotle, it traces the origins of modern Western Law to Classical Greece and, by subtle juxtaposition of images and words, calls for implementation of true equality between men and women before the law.

The issues surrounding violence against women, in a particular wife-battering and the social structures within which women continue to be victims, are effectively put across using an innovative style of drawn animation.

A comic tale in three parts, with each intoduced by a reading from Dante's Divine Comedy.

Quietly devastating in its demonstration of the emotional repercussions of rape, this work is now used as a therapeutic tool by Victim Support, the police, cancer support groups and organisations helping people recovering from torture.

The bold exploration of the relationship between a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her black daughter who embarks on a modelling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on…

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.

SHUBH-VIVAH examines the attitudes towards women that prevail from birth and emphasises the vital role education and economic independence play in gaining freedom for women.

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.

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.

Presents a forgotten classic about a robbery, a taxi and a stolen bus with a mighty cast of local Black and white dykes.

White petals falling pearls of pain a wing flutters a stain bleeds and the sings of the father forever remain.'

Set in the years 1916-18 PEASANT WOMEN OF RYAZAN portrays life in a close-knit rural community in Revolutionary Russia concentrating on the oppression of women in that community.

THE MARK OF LILITH is a film that deconstructs traditional images of the vampire and confronts power, race and gender politics within relationships.

Since 1992, Gay Youth and its 16-page study guide have been among the most widely used, respected and effective educational tools for understanding the experiences of gay and lesbian adolescents. By contrasting the tragic death of 20-year old Bobby…

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

Filmed in black and white, this evocative short is a poignant relection on the passing of wisdom.

Being gay in Ireland was once a crime and many gays and lesbians emigrated to America where they hoped they would be free.

"We like to think that our films try to pay tribute to key moments and movements in cinema’s history, as well as our own lives. They are, we hope, experimental, comical and maybe political”. Bev Zalcock and Sara Chambers a.k.a Pitbull Productions.

“We want our films to be enjoyed and we want to convey the enjoyment we experience in making them. To misquote Marilyn Tweedie “We require filmic pleasure!” - Bev Zalcock and Sara Chambers a.k.a Pitbull Productions.