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A documentary film highlighting the lives of African-American women and their role in the civil rights movement, focusing on Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker.

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

A documentary drama oresented by writer Firdas Kanga exploring issues around sexuality and disability.

A video featuring Black and Third World women artists and poets. Includes Audre Lourde, Sutapa Biswas, Mona Hatoum and Mei Ling Jin

A portrait of Indian writer and poet, Suniti Namjoshi.

A Celebration of hollywood actress Jodie Foster as an icon for lesbians.

A film exploring the lives of Asian lesbian and gay men in Britain and India.

A video exploring photographic representation of experiences of migration and identity.

Using magic realism, MEMSAHIB RITA looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her whiite mother.

A video poem of remembrance made in memory of a young Asian woman killed by three white youths on the streets of London in 1985

THE RIGHTEOUS BABES passionately aruges that feminism in the 1990s is at its most vibrant in popular culture and in particular in rock music.

Poetic and passionate in tone, yet clearly focused on its message, WARRIOR MASKS unlocks some of the cultural and political complexes surrounding the issue of female fenital mutilation.

In her quest for true love and human contact, Mona (Indra Ove, interview with a Vampire) is persuaded to try cybersex, which is emotionally and physically safe.

The film is a lyrical portrait of the work atmosphere in part of the Ropery of the former Royal Dockyard at Chatham.

MONOMYTH is an experimental film that uses time, space, ritual and repetition to depict loss.

The screen in MAN MADE IMAGES is a mirror to my consciousness, providing a way to reflect my transfer from a male defined woman to a woman searching for her definition.' (Rachel Finkelstein)

The first 'episode', a black comedy is simple called 'Penis Envy' and finds a bride with a banana - eating it, spitting it out, cutting it up…

Inspired by the 'impulse' deodorant television advert, new meaning is created and underlying significance laid bare in this effectively subversive version.

Sound and images collide to a reggae beat in this short but effective black and white video.

An honest exploration of how cultural identity effects the way you feel about being a lesbian

She has been portrayed as a powerful matriarch within the confines of the miner's home and family.

Recent years have seen a deepening divide in attitudes towards maternity care.

IN THE BEGINNING… OF THE END, is a film version of a multi-media audio-visual experience, which originally combined slides, Super-8, sound effects and music.

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…

Intermingling memories, dreams and symbols relating to birth, death and time, this non-traditional narrative shows us sisters at three stages of life.

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.

JIGSAW is a film that examines autism, a state in which the mind locks into fantasy so that communication with the outside world becomes increasingly remote.

It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask.

The story of a young woman who gets the idea to make and market a shallow and exploitative tape serves as the core narrative.

An innovative video that takes the impressionist motif of women working in the laundry and brings it up to date to incorporate contemporary women's feelings about domestic work.

The stories told in this video are personal memories but they are also about the nature of memory - how it's kept and how it can be challenged by the conflicting memories of others - and the significance of these stories you tell yourself to your…

Documenting one night of many, a girl works her way through a fairground machinery and misunderstandings.

THEY WORK THEY SAY IS MINE celebrates women's central role in the past and present of Shetland life.

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.

An erotic, witty and disturbing film. An intriguing mix of fact and fiction.

Set to two themes from Thelonius Monk, 50/50 is about a relationship, a reflection on love gone wrong and duel responsibility; an argument, a seperation, and the nature of love are explored in images and text.

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.

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.

DRIVE SHE SAID is an abstracted meditation on the nature of hope, love and the unknown.

A trip through the psyche of the 'post Holocaust' woman. An avant garde musical of musing on the philosophy of despair and its bittersweet humour.

ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITANS mixes music, family and food to take a wry look at the myth of the Jewish princess and asks 'What is a Jew?'

I went Israel to see for myself, knowing that Israel is a mixed population, in every way, and hoping to find Israelis who weren't necessarily holocaust survivors, or Europeans, or warmongers, or heterosexial, or men.' (Ruth Novaczeck)

This film relates to what I'd call the typical Jewish London woman of my generation: growing up in the 60's, at a comprehensive school… the confusion of denying your culture and your sexuality for years through having it beaten out of you - and then…

The tape combines drama and documentary to convey the significance of personal realisation in the face of broader political circumstances, and the relatonship between theory and practice.

NUCLEAR DEFENCE LIVING IN A FOOL'S PARASIDE explores the reaction of participants and onlookers on the day, making connections between our attitudes to protest and the influence of the education systems, the media and the state.

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 relationship between Kay and her adopted daughter, Chris, is thrown wide open when Chris decides to meet her natural mother.

THE LONDON STORY is a camp tale of espionage. Filmed on location in London, images of Whitehall and the Central Statistics Office form the back drop for the woman 'spy' (sunglasses and mink coat) and her collaborators, the Doorman and the Xerox man,…

Two stories of paternal abuse, one fictional fairy tale and one true story, are interwined to evoke the pain and anger of the relationship between daughter and father.

An evocative animation that illusrates the freedom a woman experience when she takes to the water.