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Sandra Lahire's film uses a combination of live action and rostrum work to comminicate the experience of anorexia and to analyse the cultural causes of the condition.

This short, named after Sylvia Plath's last poem, is about the woman who is a daughter; icy, perfected and petrified for the patriarchy.

EERIE is a vertiginous lesbian kiss in a mountain cablecar.

LADY LAZARUS is a visually woven response to Sylvia Plath's own readings of her poetry.

This is the age of the Personal Computer the Private Catacomb for the switched-on elite. Its dark doorways are for the wandering homeless…true survivors…

Is the woman worker at the terminals an extension of the plutonium-decanning monitors, or is she a gem in the nuclear plant that grows into self-control.

SERPENT RIVER is the final part ofa trilogy (see Uranium Hex and Plutonium Blonde) of anti-nuclear films in which the filmmaker makes visible the invisible menace of radioactivity.

TERMINALS is a stream-of-consciousness collage, which asks us to look at and question the dangers of technological advances and nuclear power.

Using a kaledoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines.

The creativity and the rich cultural and artistic lives of women embroiderers inspire HIDDEN WORLDS.

A discussion about body images, sexuality, society, conditioning of what women should look like, the fashion industry's profits from women's insecurities and the pressures on women to conform.

The piece continues the artist's concern with what she calls 'the domestic scene' which she used to address issues of sexuality and the construction of the feminine identity.

CAST creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invae worlds in which they do not normally belong.

MILK AND GLASS is primarily concerned with exploring where woman is in relation to sexual desire.

In an expression of levels of balance and control, ritual and sound osciliate between a point of contact and an accompanying break.

A visual, surrealistic narrative of a woman travelling both literally and psychically through an interior space of several rooms.

Using domestic objects the film looks at woman's struggle to free her from an imposed role in a society that feeds her psychical reality.

MASQUERADE is an amusing animated film dealing with the effects of magazine images on women.

A lyrical trawl through a fictional day in the life of a performance artist who doubles as a deck chair attendant.

‘The film opens directly and freshly with a screen journey which is also a kinetic light sculpture holding its rotation steadily before our eyes. Many associations emerge as we hear the tale in relation to this image and its shifting background. . .…

ONE AND THE OTHER TIME is an erotically charged experimental film exploring the dynamics between intimacy and violence.

Featuring the Carpenters song 'Close To You', this is an ode to love and fantasy.

A woman's voice recounts a subversive tale, interweaving suburban kitsch with childhood defiance.

In this whimsical comedy - drama, Eileen (Tami Hinz) buries roadkill and spies on various residents of a small Minnesota town, jotting down her observations and occasionally employing a camera and a tape recorder, perhaps hoping to somehow dive into…

MOVE OVER DARLING is an informative magazine style careers guide focusing on women in the media.

In October 1986, nurses in Australia began a strike which was to last for 50 days. Despite intense indoctrination to be 'good girls', nurses walked out of hospitals, community health centres, intensive care units and labour wards.

This video examines the type of paid work that married women - particularly those with childrenm without adequate sccess to training, in the low income bracket - find themselves doing.

A documentary film that looks at the process of rediscovering women's history, using the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike as a focal point. The Rent Strike was a protest against Glasgow's landlords who were exploting the war situation.

In this documentary, women munitions workers recall the part they played during the Second World War; the types of work they did in factories and the conditions.

An illuminating exposure and investigation into the participation of women in fascist parties, filmed across Europe.

SWEET SUGAR RAGE shows the work of, and explores the methods used by the theatre collective Sistren to highlight the harsh conditions facing female workers on a Jamaican sugar estate.

This incidence of POLOGAMY amongst educated women in Senegal is actually on the increase. More and more women are choosing to become a man's second or third wife

An imaginary biography of Audre Lorde - African-American, lesbian, feminist, professor, mother, visionary and 'warrior poet' - who died of breast cancer, metastasised to her liver in 1992.

THE ELECTRONIC SWEATSHOP explores the automation of work in a time of recession: the loss of control over work, the fragmentation of tasks, the mental strain and high levels of stress that result in many health problems, the new forms of electronic…

Moving weightless in the water.

This wild spoof of TV magazine journalism takes a mock-serious look at a phenonmenon which is reportedly sweeping through the lesbian community.

This video looks at what has happened to the 'Women Against Pit Closures' movement since the end of the 1984-85 Miners' strike.

After attempts at exchanging cooking recipes, an intense domestic altercation and an episode with a heavy breather, Isolde and Seahell, two young women of opposite personalities, the one blithe and fun-loving, the other morbid and depressive, roam…

The story of a love affair its demise told through one of the primary objects shared by the couple: an old beige station wagon with fake wooden panellings along the sides.

Su Friedrich's experimental documentary looks at both the mother/daughter relationship and the demands of national identity.

This text of Gently Down The Stream is a succession of fourteen dreams taken from eight years of my journals.' (Su Friedrich)

Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play.

Set against the backdrop of modern-day Sydney, this heist-style thriller involves four politicalised women from varying backgrounds, who conspire to sabotage the research programme of a multi-national firm, Utero, which is engaged in reproductive…

This documentary explores the notion of gender through the life and work of transexual lesbian playwright, Kate Bornstein. Poet Pat Califia, performance artist Justin Bond, author of '100 Years of Homosexuality' David Halprin and female-to-make…

In Susan Stein's early film, G, her interest is language and work and how the two are connected.

SHE SAID explores the theme of women and work, using the formal properties of film to reflect on the overlap between work and free time.

A poem by the Munirah Theatre Company, urging Black people living in Britian to treasure their history, gives this video its title.

A journey through the mind of a lonely person, trapped within the space and leaving only by the power of memory.

The film explores language, communication and fragile development of relationships.

Shot in 16mm but origonally conceived as a three screen piece of video this film is a delicious and curious exploration of familiar objects and the sounds they make.