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This video was completed as part of an undergraduate thesis, intended to expose the negative character that has been historically assigned to the roles and images of Black women by films and television.

Using a childhood experience of racial bigotry at school, this film looks at the ways in which racism is ingrained in American society, even in the play of children. MONIQUE is a compelling exploration of identity and memory.

With the unique style that has characterised her for previous features, Yvonne Rainer explores the issues of sexuality, ageing, power relations and political activism.

Rainer's 6th feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been denied on film by virtually everybody.

Under the NHS every woman has the right to have her baby at home. She is entitled to the services of a qualified NHS midwife for antenatal care in her own home and attendance at the birth.

ENCUENTRO is a documentation of the Third Latin American and Caribbean Feminist meeting which took place in Brazil in 1985, bringing together 900 women from Latin America and many other countries.

TIME AND TIME AGAIN focuses on the lives of women in prision through interviews with four ex-prisoners.

ELLA is a black version of the fairy-tale story 'Cinderella', cleverly adapted and performed originally as a play, by Catalyst - a group of young black people based in Liverpool, who started their own drama/dance group and are involved in all aspects…

All I know is like, 25 days after I come out and that I get it in a towel. It goes after three days!'

In this documentary, four women recount their lives in Australia during the bleak years of the economic depression of the 1930s.

an impressionistic drama about Louise, a young black girl growing up in Britiain. Going to a predominantly white school and with a busy mother who is unable to give her the attention she wants, Louise turns to her Jamaican grandmother, via letters,…

WOMAN FOR A CHANGE is a documentary highlighting the British govenments aid policies and practices in relation to womens in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Two women- one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering - interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.

CANT YOU TAKE A JOKE is a comedy about a stole sense of humour and the search for a romantic love.

A woman, looking straight at the camera gives a 12-minute monologue. The camera remains stationary, looking at her, possibly judging her.

The reality of violence is represented by live action black and white shots of two knives being sharpened for the slaughter.

RASH takes a furtive look at female sexual fetishism through an imaginary voyahe around the body.

A scrambling of culural codes of female movement by juxtaposing images of a performance artist with the same woman as a nude dander in a peep show.

What starts as a row over the child's haircut, develops to explore the wider social issues of the responsibilities of child rearing and childcare.

LUCY, my mother's sister, immigrated from a little Bavarian village to the United States in 1934. From the date she did not give any more news of herself

A celebration and a record of some of the many flight back events against Section 28 of the Local Government Act.

This video explores the history of the day and shows highlights from activities organised by women around March 8th, focusing especially on events in Leeds.

The film expresses the dilemma of motherhood: caught in between a childhood world and a reality in which the dreams of princessess rapidly dissolves into mountains of housework, nappies and routine chores.

ANIMATION FOR LIVE ACTION is an energetic, witty and engaging film that cuts together animation and live action footage, both dramatised and documentary.

Valie Export demonstrates the meanings and interventions of the media in our lives, while the sci-fi narrative becomes a surrel vehicle for her discussion of sexual and national politics.

Lulu and Lala are twin sisters, but live apart from one another. When Lala is watching a video of beautiful boys in a midnight screening, by chance she finds her father appears in it.

Devised by London Lesbians in Health-Care, a diverse multi-disciplinary group of health-care workers, this tape is intended to raise awareness of lesbians as service users.

The film regards surgery of Asian (prodominantly women) eyelids as a self-effacing fantasy of attaining the standard of beauty as maintained in this society, a standard which demands conformity to the norm of being average.

This piece investigates the conjunction of sexuality with: the eye, as purveyor of desire; the sexual fear and fantasy of blindness with a focus on the blindfold; and women and AIDS.

EKLEIPSIS delves into two histories; the history of hysteria and the Cambodian civil war.

An introductory tape to an eight part series on blindness and its metaphors.

NICE COLOURED GIRLS is a stylised experimental drama exploring attitudes of Aboriginal women to white women and vice versa.

This beautiful documentary uses the art of video to examine the working lives of some Western Australian Aboriginal women.

LEGAL LIMBO is a documentary which investigates how women in Ireland live through the ordeal of the breakdown of marriage.

Groove frantically plunges into the dark history of two women fleeing violent crack dealers in the north of England.

SHADOWS OF A JOURNEY was filmed on a ferry going to the Isle of Harris from the Isle of Skye.

A recording of eleven women in order of their age, from a child of 6 months to a women of 82. Each child/woman was asked to sit in the playpen for 2 mins and, without direction, left to their own devices.

IN OUR HANDS, GREENHAM uses a video installation to convey women's struggle against nuclear weapons.

HEY MACK takes the insistent image of passing trucks, filmed from a pedestrian viewpoint, and sets them against the feminist perspective of music by Disband, a New york-based group of women.

An androgynous woman's surreal journey through the carnivalesque, that embodies spectatorship, erotica, sexuality, death and decay.

A Video which uses slides to isolate and emphasise the actions two girls made while singing traditional clapping songs.

BED-TIME STORY questions how attitudes are often placed in our subconscious minds at an early age through 'childrens stories'

In 1985, 17,000 women descended on Nairobi for the International Women's Conference.

Carried out over a period of four years, her research reveals not only the sheer number of children who are victims of incest and other forms of sexual abuse, but a justice system that fails to followthrough with prosecution when incidents occur.

A place where travellers and/or lovers rendezvous or rest; a visit possibly forgotten in its transience or remembered by its intensity.

A kinetic meditation on female expressions of power and desire. A chiaroscuro of tension and release.

This film creates a visual dialogue between the seen, recognised and unrecognised.'

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.

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

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