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How many famous Black women can you name who aren't either sports women or entertainers'. Mostly the folks of Liverpool draw a blank - making the point that too little is known or taught about Black women.

Combining a lively mix of animation and interviews BREAKING THE MOULD examines why women, in particular, suffer from eating disorders.

IMPRESSIONS OF EXILE focuses on the personal struggle of three Chilean women, living in Britian, learning a new language, and dealing with the racism and isolation they experience.

Short songs chart erotic tales in an urban topology. Includes FISHTANK, SHIVER, KISS OF FIRE, 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, AND FAINT CLUE.

An experiement in entering imaginatively the delirium of Lower East Side, poignant and beautiful vision of late twentieth century urban life.

A homage to film noir, soap thrillers and Mexian comic book generate the action.

Images and sounds of American mass media are dissected and carefully composed into a rapid-fire montage which reveals the processes at work.

PERILS is an homage to silent films: the clash of ambiguous innocence and unsophisticated villainy.

Child layers on artifice and excess as the TV serial sputters apart in a dizzyiny discountinuous montage.

JUST BECAUSE OF WHO WE ARE is a challenging documentary, focusing on a subject rarely discussed by mainstream media: Violence against lesbians.

SCUOLA SENZA FINE shows how the experiment extended into the lives of women takingthe course, most of whom were housewives. The film was produced in collaboration with these students as part of their studies for the class, turning the cirriculum's…

Douglas and the flour Baby is a modern day fairy tale set in the unchanged, north-eastern coastal town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea

HELL TO PAY exposes the devastating effects of the foreign debt in Bolivia, through the impassioned testimony of women from the countryside, the mining communities, and the capital, La Paz' (Margarita Laime)

A timeless and compelling love story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France. On the brink of war and in the face of escalating anti-Jewish activity, November has fled her native Germany for the relative safety of Paris. She meets and falls…

A Women tried to alter her body shape by struggling into a corset. The experiment serves to reveal the pressure on women to conform to an unattainable ideal.

Images of non-perfect bodies are intercut with shots of food and eating while voices discuss the personal and political issues of women and body-images.

Suction Termination of pregnancy is examined in terms of the process as it is carried out and the effect that is may have on the woman.

A Dominatrix comes home from work to relieve her slave frustration in a piercingly tender love scene. An erotic adventure from start to finish.

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

BACK TO JOSIE is set during a hot summer's day on a disused railway viaduct stretching over the heart of London.

This moving and informative film features seven women--including the filmmaker -- describing their experiences with manic depression, multiple personalities, schizophrenia, euphoria and recovery.

An erotic urban allegory: a police woman pursues a dark silhouette. A strange duel ensues between violence and desire.

Mixing reality with fairy tale MISS QUEENCAKE follows the plight of Bira, a 16-year-old mixed race girl from the North of England.

GUERRILLAS IN OUR MIDST presents a savvy exploration of the machinations of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980's, and brings the Guerrilla Girls to the screen.

Part journey film and part photographic collage, SEED OF SARAH takes us through the momeories of hungarian Holocaust survivor and author Judith Magyar Isaacson.

Using a combbination of pastel coloured lines drawings and atmospheric music, this lively animation captures and recreates all the thrills, spectacle and excitement of the Big Top, and the interaction between audience and performer. ]

DREAMING BLIND is a thought provolking and terrifying exploration of the dreams of three blind people.

SLIDES I-V is a continuing equence of tactile films made in the printer from my earlier material.

Hilarious send-up of psychoanalytical propaganda films, illustrating every absurd cliché about the 'lesbian nature' and raising issues of self-representation and media production.

An interview with artist Rose Finn-Kelcey on her exhibition at Matts Gallery, London, 1988.

A mixed media piece which uses an empty frame and mainstream images of 'women loving women' to expose the invisibility and myths surrounding lesbians and society.

Originally shot on 35mm, this beautifully filmed witty short film offers a gorgeous seduction on horseback, creating an erotic charge between two women.

Intercut with Punch & Judy images, this documentary reveals the common ground shared by women of different classes and cultures as they explore the reasons why they stayed in violent relationships for so long and their lives now, after “making the…

Normal behaviour will be resumed after the break..' But what is normal when you split up with someone?

A slice of San Francisco life in the summer of '93. Matt and Jo sit together in their back yard and talk about their daddy/boy relationship, transgender, life/love, tattoos and tomato plants.

I'm just a regular bloke…' Kelby's gender was decided for him at birth 'he later put right the mistake.

A Lesbian mother and her son describe what they have in common, that includes parties, dressing up and shopping.

Five years after the making of the video portrait Boys in the Backyard, the filmmaker returns to San Francisco to see what has become of MATT.

Sydney writer and performer Norrie May Welby argues the case for a genderless society.

Then you lit a cigarette and carefully put the tip of it to the corner of the photograph and watched it smoulder and curl…' SEX LIES RELIGION is a sexy dyke film made the day after two women met at the Clit Club.

This video is humorous, absurd, heartfeld and worshipful look at sex. Guided through this unique adventure by sexpert extraordinaire Annie Sprinkle and the 'Transformation Facilitators' , you will explore the ancient and forbidden knowledge about…

MARY, MARY is the true story of 11-year old Mary Bell who killed two small boys in England in 1986

This innovative and entertaining documentary explores the varied work, motivation, politics and lifestyles of five Black women photographers based in Birmingham.

THE INVISIBLE HANDS is a contemporary story about two seemingly unconnected people.

A documentary exploring, through interviews with women workers, the effects of work on women’s health, including the issues of poor working conditions and wages, stress, chemicals, noise, lifting, sexual harassment, migrant workers, and homeworkers.

HAIRPIECE is an animated satire on Black consciousness from the standpoint of various haircare devices.

The film features the story of a mother who has recently discovered that the girl's father has sexually abused her six-year-old daughter.

SYVILLA: THEY DANCE TO HER DRUM is a documentary film portraying the life of, first-generation African-American concert dancer, Syvilla Fort, whose enormous contributions to the performing arts and her significance as a teacher left an indelible…

Hollywood's image subtext is the beginning for this broken narrative anti-dramatic film. Two women, a niece and her aunt, contemplate the familial cycles of relationships, death, secrets and confidences. Through their correspondence they question the…