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Culture Club: Listening to FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS by Fiona Apple

Selina Robertson May 7, 2020 Writing

By Helen Charman Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double …

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Culture Club: Listening to EVERY BAD by Porridge Radio

Selina Robertson April 30, 2020 Writing

By Sarah Crewe Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, …

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Culture Club: Listening to Ojerime’s B4 I BREAKDOWN & Watching Darnell Martin’s I LIKE IT LIKE THAT

Selina Robertson April 23, 2020 Writing

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

Selina Robertson April 14, 2020 Writing

By Ania Ostrowska   The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020.  You …

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The image shows the cover of Clare Hunter's book Threads of Life, with the title stitched in royal blue on a background of golden stitches that resemble grain.

Culture Club: Wanting to be Reading THREADS OF LIVE by Clare Hunter (& to be stitching)

Selina Robertson April 6, 2020 Writing

By Jenny Clarke I am currently living an unintentionally minimalist life in Edinburgh; I moved myself and some essentials up …

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Barbra Streisand, wearing a fawn-coloured coat, stands on the street in New York with her arms spread wide. The image is from the film The Way We Were.

Culture Club: Watching Barbra Streisand

Selina Robertson April 2, 2020 Writing

By Sarah Wood I heard the news that my friend Clare had died in China. She’s the first person I …

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Image shows band The Marine Girls, three young women including Tracey Thorn on the left. They are standing in front of a graffiti'd wall.

Culture Club: Reading BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN by Tracey Thorn & listening to the Marine Girls

Selina Robertson March 26, 2020 Writing

By Selina Robertson Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, 2013) is out now in paperback. Marine Girls’ albums Beach …

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Ray, Kieran and Gemma glow under the red light of a night out

Culture Club: Watching TRIGONOMETRY directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari

Selina Robertson March 18, 2020 Writing

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)

Selina Robertson February 16, 2020 Writing

Read all about it!

Revolt, She Said: Women and Film after ’68 report

Selina Robertson August 11, 2019 Writing

Explore the legacy of our groundbreaking Revolt She Said: Women and Film after ’68 tour here. With many thanks to …

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the german sisters by Sarah Crewe

Selina Robertson May 22, 2019 Writing

A poem by Sarah Crewe, after/for Margarethe von Trotta’s The German Sisters

Revolt, She Searched by Jenny Clarke

Selina Robertson September 19, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson August 16, 2018 Writing

DAISIES + SAUTE MA VILLE! screened at the Lexi as part of their Summer Film School, and CdF’s So Mayer went …

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Read our Zine!

Selina Robertson June 7, 2018 Writing

Including our CDFesto, a timeline of revolts and revolutions related to our film programme from 1968–1992, fabulous images from our …

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A Revolting Archive by Isabel Moir

Selina Robertson July 31, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson July 18, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson July 4, 2018 Writing

For me the Woman with a Movie Camera summit was a long overdue coming together….

Selina Robertson on SAUTE MA VILLE

Selina Robertson July 3, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson June 8, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson May 31, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson May 30, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson May 22, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson May 30, 2018 Writing

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

Selina Robertson May 22, 2018 Writing

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.

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