I have been thankful, during social isolation, for the generosity of the many media artists, especially women of colour, who have shared their work on the Internet. Among them is Rea Tajiri, whose classic, half-hour experimental documentary video, History and Memory, has long been hard to see outside of art spaces and classrooms.
WHERE I GROW OLD also acts as a love letter to the city where Rocha was born and co-created TEIA, a collective based in Belo Horizonte. It showcases a city which is rarely documented on screen
By Helen Charman Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double …
By Sarah Crewe Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, …
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
By Ania Ostrowska The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020. You …
By Jenny Clarke I am currently living an unintentionally minimalist life in Edinburgh; I moved myself and some essentials up …
By Sarah Wood I heard the news that my friend Clare had died in China. She’s the first person I …
By Selina Robertson Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, 2013) is out now in paperback. Marine Girls’ albums Beach …
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.
Read all about it!
Explore the legacy of our groundbreaking Revolt She Said: Women and Film after ’68 tour here. With many thanks to …
A poem by Sarah Crewe, after/for Margarethe von Trotta’s The German Sisters
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.
DAISIES + SAUTE MA VILLE! screened at the Lexi as part of their Summer Film School, and CdF’s So Mayer went …
Including our CDFesto, a timeline of revolts and revolutions related to our film programme from 1968–1992, fabulous images from our …
Read about ICO programmer Isabel Moir’s intrepid journey into the regional film archives….thank you Isabel for your amazing work!
The Sphinx is re-emerging. It was never defeated, never fully gone, just lying dormant. It is resurrected.
For me the Woman with a Movie Camera summit was a long overdue coming together….
Every action in the film counts: cooking, eating, humming, brushing, dancing, laughing, washing, cleaning and taping; this is furious feminist work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
