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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.

WHAT DO LESBIANS DO IN BED? With a star-studded soundtrack, we're shown women doing everything in bed from knitting and drinking tea to having raucous pillow-fights

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

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

A celebration of lesbian desire and identity in the form of a pop promo. With a tune so catchy you'll be singing it all day!

A rich and evocative experimental film using a collage of superimposed images, live action, urban landscapes, unsettling sounds and the spoken poetic words of an unseen woman.

A satire on the stereotyped images of lesbians, each scene is also a take-off of a different genre of Hollywood film - the source of so many of our stereotypes.

A GOAT NAMED TENSION is an audacious, witty and expertly filmed visual and verbal play around the expression 'I've got your goat'. At the beginning of the film, two women in 'nanny costumes' representing the two female protagonists, are looking for…

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

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

A MATTER OF INTEREST uses clear and imaginative animation to explore the complex and seemingly distant problem of international debt

Forced to leave Ireland after the birth of her two illegitimate children Eileen O'sulivan sought to re-establish herself in England as a 'good' woman.

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 PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH confronts debilitating illness with creative vitality, simultaneously desperate and defiant.

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.

Home after a formal occasion, Tilly and Ben get ready for bed. Tilly anticipates the night ahead but all Ben wants to do is sleep.

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

Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture, under certain circumstances, as it appears as a guest editorial in Newsweek magazine in 1982. Her critique is presented as a voiceover and a dizzying assemblage of radio and…

‘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. . .…

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.

Alien abduction saves Natalie from the menace of the school bullies and takes her off to the planet Helicon, where she is asked to solve the problems of failing Purple students.

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…

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

Nicole and Diana, both in their early twenties, are close friends. They have reached a crucial moment in their lives.

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.

AGAINST THE CURRENT is an experiemental documentary which takes both an historical and a contemporary look at the lack of control women have over their own bodies, focusing mainly on childbirth and developments in reproductive technologies.

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

ALL IN YOUR HEAD raises the profile of epilepsy in an exciting and imaginative way and aims to challenge stereotypes about this 'invisible' disability which affects at least 1 in 200 of the population

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.

Work-related stress can damage your health, in ways we are onlu just beginning to understand. While this film raises many questions about the causes and effects of stress, it is also accessible and entertaining

This tape is a confrontation/diaologue between the filmmarker and her mother, both naked. The gap between intention and expression is explored as the camera isolates parts of the body, and the women speak of how the image relates to themselves and…

Based on a poignant autobiographical essay by Woodson, this video adaption illustrates the pull between desire for (religious) community and personal freedom.

AN EPIC POEM explores the contradictions in man's conception of love through the myths and representations, which support it, and argues that man has contructed love in his own image, reflecting his profound anxieties about prohibited desires.

This short drama is a humorous exploration of a woman regaining power as she challenges male supremacy in culture, the porn industry and film.

AND WHAT DOES YOUR MOTHER DO? Is a humorous film which cleverly uses the technique of speeded-up action, to expose basic inequalities built into the traditional family structure, which lay the bulk of responsibility and pressure on women.

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

Emina, Yetka, Yehudit, Mita and Rachel: Women born at the turn of the century in Russia or Poland, went to Palestine in the twenties 'to build the country by building themselves'. Sixty years later they evoke the adventures, hopes and the struggles…

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.

Employing footage from an obscure 8mm film trailer for Battle for the Planet of the Apes to highlight the unstable relationship between the real, historical past and the distant, imaginary future, this project revolves around a central question: Is…

A woman sits in an armchair and watches television. Behind the sceen lies the sociopathy of her daily life.

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.

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 candid conversation between the Late Start collective and Audre Lorde. Late Start Collective were Viv Bietz, Shaheen Haq, Pratibha Parmar, Ingrid Pollard

A shocking and disturbing film about homophobia in the United States.

AWAY FROM THE SIDEWALK is about women learning to be assertive and active participants in politics, and looks at Nigerian women's increasingly active role in political issues affecting their countrys future.

AZAADI is the story of Parvati, a woman who lives in a basement flat with her husband, a frustrated writer.

A humorous fast-paced parody of women dancing, cruising and picking up women at New York City's legendary Clit Club.

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

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

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.