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)
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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.
Carmen Gray on DAISIES
With irreverent energy Daisies tears apart a stifling patriarchal order in a mischievous riot of destruction; its focus upon clearing the ground, rather than organising what may come after.
Sophie Brown on CARRY GREENHAM HOME
It celebrates the joyfully fierce defiance of the protestors against systems that don’t care, and explores the necessary work that comes with creating new ways of living. They are gentle angry people, singing for their lives.
Anna Backman Rogers on THE GIRLS
There could not exist a more politically apposite moment to re-watch Mai Zetterling’s visionary The Girls than the one we are living through right now.
Tove Jansson: An Intimate Portrait – Interview with Dulwich Picture Gallery 16.1.2018
Dulwich Picture Gallery interviewed us in the run up to our participation their special Late, …
Being Ruby Rich Dossier
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ICO blog: Club des Femmes’ decade of queer feminist programming 12.5.2017
Our friends at the ICO interviewed us for their blog to mark our first decade of queer feminist programming.
Where are we really at with diversity in hollywood? 26.2.2016
Dazed invited us together with five other rad film organisations to weigh in on representation in the film industry, tools …