By Helen Charman Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double …
Culture Club: Listening to EVERY BAD by Porridge Radio
By Sarah Crewe Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, …
Culture Club: Listening to Ojerime’s B4 I BREAKDOWN & Watching Darnell Martin’s I LIKE IT LIKE THAT
I am trying to not force myself to keep up with reading, listening or watching anything and I feel that as a result I have found so many things that have brought me joy. Here are a few of them
Culture Club: Watching THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE by Albertina Carri
By Ania Ostrowska The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020. You …
Culture Club: Wanting to be Reading THREADS OF LIVE by Clare Hunter (& to be stitching)
By Jenny Clarke I am currently living an unintentionally minimalist life in Edinburgh; I moved myself and some essentials up …
Culture Club: Watching Barbra Streisand
By Sarah Wood I heard the news that my friend Clare had died in China. She’s the first person I …
Culture Club: Reading BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN by Tracey Thorn & listening to the Marine Girls
By Selina Robertson Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, 2013) is out now in paperback. Marine Girls’ albums Beach …
Culture Club: Watching TRIGONOMETRY directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari
We’re watching TRIGONOMETRY on BBC iPlayer, directed by and starring two Femmes favourites: Athina Rachel Tsangari and Ariane Labed, back a decade after Attenberg with a new tale of loving & vulnerable bodies dancing dorkily.
Feminist Re-Imaginings Dossier (postponed)
Read all about it!
Revolt, She Said: Women and Film after ’68 report
Explore the legacy of our groundbreaking Revolt She Said: Women and Film after ’68 tour here. With many thanks to …
the german sisters by Sarah Crewe
A poem by Sarah Crewe, after/for Margarethe von Trotta’s The German Sisters
Revolt, She Searched by Jenny Clarke
Connecting with new potential audiences for Revolt, She Said, I looked beyond the current cinema audience to the growing young feminist communities all around the UK.
So Mayer on DAISIES and/as Feminist Art
DAISIES + SAUTE MA VILLE! screened at the Lexi as part of their Summer Film School, and CdF’s So Mayer went …
Read our Zine!
Including our CDFesto, a timeline of revolts and revolutions related to our film programme from 1968–1992, fabulous images from our …
A Revolting Archive by Isabel Moir
Read about ICO programmer Isabel Moir’s intrepid journey into the regional film archives….thank you Isabel for your amazing work!
Grace Barber-Plentie on RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX
The Sphinx is re-emerging. It was never defeated, never fully gone, just lying dormant. It is resurrected.
Jenny Clarke reviews the BFI’s Woman with a Movie Camera Summit. 16 June 2018
For me the Woman with a Movie Camera summit was a long overdue coming together….
Selina Robertson on SAUTE MA VILLE
Every action in the film counts: cooking, eating, humming, brushing, dancing, laughing, washing, cleaning and taping; this is furious feminist work.
Jason Barker on BEFORE STONEWALL
I was drawing up the power of dykes through time – the passing women of Before Stonewall, the butches and femmes, the people in the middle of nowhere just doing it.
Lizzie Borden on MAEVE
Pat filmed, edited and presented MAEVE within the five-year period in which BORN IN FLAMES was made. While we played with fake guns and planted fake bombs in downtown Manhattan, Pat travelled in and out of a real war zone.
Jemma Desai on ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T
In One Sings and the Other Doesn’t correspondences serve as journeys towards and away from each other. They are journeys toward sameness and towards difference.
Kanchi Wichmann on THE CAT HAS NINE LIVES
Stöckl’s unapologetically feminist politics and stark narrative devices nod to directors such as Varda, Akerman and Chytilová, whilst the art-direction, costumes and music tap into the giddy optimism of the time.
Tara Judah on NICE COLOURED GIRLS
The film is umami: Moffatt gives us sweet tang in the “nice” girls of the title, cut in contrast with the “nasty” girls of the 1982 number one pop song she employs, Vanity 6’s Nasty Girl.
Nazmia Jamal on A PLACE OF RAGE
We are all, every day now, witnessing or experiencing the sort of brutality that, to paraphrase June Jordan, is hardening us in a place of rage.