The Body Beautiful Autobiographical account of a mother-daughter relationship, exploring beauty standards and female sexuality. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1990 24 mins Flight of the Swan A young black ballerina rejects prejudice and finds her African spirit in Swan Lake. Drama 1992 12 mins White Men Are Cracking Up The fatal fascination with the myth of the black feminine mystique is uncovered in Ngozi Onwurah's short Drama 1994 20 mins I'm British But... Britain beats to the sound of Bhangra and Bangla in Gurinder Chadha's debut film. Documentary 1989 29 mins Gurinder Chadha Around the Village Green Rural life in the Essex villages of Finchingfield and Great Bardfield - and the mixed reactions of older residents to changing times. Travelogue 1937 12 mins So This Is London London at its best? This gorgeous lyrical portrait was made by pioneering female director Marion Grierson. Documentary 1933 14 mins Tunde's Film Tired of being hassled by the police and with no job opportunities, a group of teenage East End lads plan to rob a bank. Documentary drama 1974 40 mins Black to Front World in Action interviews the residents of Haycroft Road, Brixton as a controversial by-election stokes concerns about race and immigration. Current affairs 1978 27 mins Cedar Wood & Silk Insightful exploration of the relationship between a Jamaican mother and her British-born daughter. 1995 14 mins Today We Live A key social issues film documentary from the British Documentary Movement, this two-part film follows the establishment of social enterprises in England and Wales. Documentary 1937 24 mins Dover, Spring 1947 Dover gets a makeover in this offbeat and pointed public information film. Documentary 1947 11 mins Hedging Is your hedge thin and straggly? Don't worry, help is at hand Documentary Government sponsored film 1942 9 mins Fair Rent Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man Norrie Williamson goes head to head with his greedy landlady Documentary Government sponsored film 1947 11 mins Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti Immerse yourself in the work of Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti - icons of the Mexican Renaissance. Animation & Artists Moving Image Documentary 1983 30 mins An Exchange for Fire: Sacrifice (Film London Jarman Award 2012) Anja Kirschner and David Panos investigate the financial crisis from its European epicentre - Greece. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2012 3 mins The Necromancers (Film London Jarman Award 2010) Theatre director Steve Pearl talks about his chance meetings with a female ventriloquist. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2010 3 mins An Exchange for Fire: Debt (Film London Jarman Award 2012) The concluding episode in Anja Kirschner and David Panos' series of films on the Greek financial crisis. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2013 3 mins An Exchange for Fire: Non-Citizens (Film London Jarman Award 2012) The global financial crisis viewed through the prism of modern Greece. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2012 3 mins The Paramnesiac (Film London Jarman Award 2010) The instability of memory comes to the fore when artist Lindsay Seers' step-sister Christine is involved in a moped accident which severely damages her memory. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2010 4 mins Serios/Seers (Film London Jarman Award 2010) Writer M. Anthony Penwill, an occult photography expert, recalls how his meeting with Ted Serios led him to encounter the artist Lindsay Seers. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2010 3 mins Carlyle's Hands 1 (Film London Jarman Award 2011) Eitienne, a neuroscientist who is working around ideas of self awareness, is haunted by his patient, who he calls 'Marathon Man' a man who cannot move his own body unless he sees it. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2011 3 mins Carlyle's Hands 2 (Film London Jarman Award 2011) In the second in the series of Emily Wardill films, Eitienne the neuroscientist meets Georgia, a woman with whom he is able to connect and they fall in love. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2011 3 mins Carlyle's Hands 3 (Film London Jarman Award 2011) Eitienne's dates with different women explore proprioception through a contemporary situation. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2011 3 mins Footsteps Actor and cameraman engage in a game of ‘grandmother’s footsteps’ in a playfully delightful film. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1974 6 mins Carlyle's Hands 4 (Film London Jarman Award 2011) Eitienne the neuroscientist delivers a lecture to students that explores ideas of self-awareness. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2011 3 mins Carlyle's Hands 5 (Film London Jarman Award 2011) An overworked neuroscientist is encouraged to begin online dating. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2011 3 mins Real Time As she recollects her childhood, the filmmaker reflects on time, family and ageing. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1971 33 mins Muybridge Film Anne Rees-Mogg pays tribute to Muybridge’s studies of human motion with this portrait of filmmaker Renny Croft. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1975 4 mins A Length of Time A documentary on life, filmic time and stock car racing. 1970 22 mins Focii A female dancer performs in front of what appears to be a wall of mirrors until her reflection takes on a life of its own. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1975 9 mins Guerillere Talks Six film portraits of women associated with the punk music scene in 1970s New York. Animation & Artists Moving Image Documentary 1978 24 mins Tea Leaf An intimate account of frustration and disarray in 1980s Britain from the point of view of a young woman. Documentary 1988 8 mins Edinburgh Bonnie Edinburgh - a picturesque promotional film to attract tourists to the Scottish capital Documentary 1934 10 mins The London Story Sally Potter's lively dance film about spies and government intrigue. Comedy Musical 1986 16 mins The Garden of Eating A stop-motion collage film that constructs a garden out of flowers, candles, plastic cellophane and food Animation & Artists Moving Image 1986 3 mins Never Go with Strangers Is this the scariest public information film ever? This hard-hitting warning against 'stranger danger' was considered too distressing to be broadcast on television. Documentary 1971 18 mins Near Home A rare outing for a 1945 drama documentary on local studies education in Bishop Auckland by one of Britain's pioneering women directors. Government sponsored film School programme and Educational film 1949 24 mins Plan to Work On Kay Mander's film about the planning for Dunfermline’s post-war reconstruction is a fascinating record of the idealism of mid-20th-century town planning. Documentary 1948 33 mins Quiet Morning Everyday family life in suburban North London - as seen by folk learning English in the 1950s. School programme and Educational film 1955 11 mins The Christmas Visitor The Night Before Christmas meets Toy Story in this charming British cartoon from 1958. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1958 7 mins Cycling Proficiency Scheme: Father and Son "Dad... I want a bike!” Fun animated campaign aimed at 50s parents and their over-eager offspring. Advert Animation & Artists Moving Image 1959 1 mins Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard A cartoon fantasy brings fabric patterns to life in a literal soap opera - yet even here the reality of Home Front life creeps in Advert Animation & Artists Moving Image 1941 6 mins Charley's Black Magic Cartoon propaganda short sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow Animation & Artists Moving Image Public Information Filler 1949 9 mins Cold Comfort A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short Animation & Artists Moving Image Public Information Filler 1944 1 mins Compost Heap A talking cabbage plant will win you over in this Second World War cartoon trailer, which has a surprising charm. Animation & Artists Moving Image Government sponsored film 1942 2 mins 4 and 20 Fit Girls Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape. 1940 11 mins Nursery Island The birdlife of Northumberland's Farne Islands comes under the spotlight in this pioneering documentary from the Secrets of Life nature series. Documentary Nature and Science programme 1936 18 mins Wisdom of the Wild Fun mixture of natural history and wartime public information. Documentary 1940 12 mins London Pigeon Urban nature explored in this wonderful short film looking at the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population. Documentary 1940 9 mins Market Town Rise and shine! Newark market calls with a seductive array of produce. Travelogue 1942 10 mins Mrs. T. And Her Cabbage Patch Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks" Public Information Filler 1941 12 mins Civilian Front It's all action on the home front with civilians on high alert to support the war effort. War 1940 10 mins Double Thread The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds (1940s-style) at a nursery in Guildford. Documentary 1943 33 mins The Way We Live This stylish film shows the cramped life of one family in post-war Plymouth, and expands on the contentious plans for the city's rebuilding. War 1946 64 mins Out of Chaos "Why in the height of a world war, should there be this terrific interest in painting?" Documentary War 1944 27 mins Once We Were Four Innocent bunnies face an onslaught of badgers, bombs and birds of prey in this black comedy masquerading as a nature film. Documentary 1942 9 mins Boy and the Cat A boy and his cat make mischief in the snow at South Shields in this captivating hand-drawn childrens animation created by Sheila Graber. Amateur film Animation & Artists Moving Image 1976 10 mins Toys Will Be Toys Barbie dolls in pink battle khaki killing machines in a Christmas animation that cocks a snook at the “Disney Doctrine”. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1988 5 mins Christmas Around the World Chomping alligators, a boomerang throwing kangaroo, a turkey in Turkey, and an angry lion, all mollified by a world touring, bumbling Santa. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1978 5 mins The Twelve Days of Christmas A classic Christmas carol brought joyously to life in this engaging and colourful Sheila Graber animation, with help from her school class. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1976 4 mins Larn Yersel' Geordie Learn how to speak Geordie with a riotous animation of Scott Dobsons popular vernacular lessons. Animation & Artists Moving Image Documentary 1980 11 mins My River Tyne An unusual mix of pastel, photos, film and line drawings conjures a story of the River Tyne, from its source at the Scottish border to its mouth at South Shields. Animation & Artists Moving Image Documentary 1986 7 mins Howway the Lasses This jaunty hand-drawn animation charts the history of womens revolutionary road to freedom in the North East - from Stone Age sister to suffragette of the twentieth century. Animation & Artists Moving Image Documentary 1977 1 mins Somersetshire Dairy Farming Milky movie: close-up on Somerset's changing milk and cheese industry 1937 12 mins Bri-nylon and bri-lon at the Royal Albert Hall A parade of colourful fashions wearing their synthetic brand with pride Promotional 1961 7 mins A Family Called Abrew Meet the Abrews, a unique showbiz family whose imprint on British culture began in Scotland in the 19th century Biopic Documentary 1992 40 mins Home Away from Home A powerfully bittersweet image of the loneliness and sacrifice in migration stories, centred on a Nigerian-British family 1993 11 mins Welcome/Adieu Victorian lantern slides and a ‘patriotic’ rendering of God Save the Queen Animation & Artists Moving Image 1983 3 mins Sentimental Journey A poetic tutorial about how to make an experimental film Animation & Artists Moving Image 1977 34 mins Nothing Is Something The delicate everyday beauty of soap bubbles, moving water and rainbow reflections. 1966 9 mins Living Memory The filmmaker revisits the landscape of her youth and her memory of it Animation & Artists Moving Image 1980 39 mins Grandfather's Footsteps The filmmaker re-evokes the presence of her great-grandfather, Henry Stiles Savory, a Victorian clergyman, photographer and scientist. Animation & Artists Moving Image Biopic 1983 36 mins Transmogrification Two girls become 18th century ladies in this short film about the assumption of roles. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1980 9 mins Lady Lazarus A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry Animation & Artists Moving Image 1991 24 mins Eerie A vertiginous lesbian kiss in a mountain cablecar inspired by German expressionism. Animation & Artists Moving Image Melodrama 1992 1 mins Arrows A first-person essay on the experience of anorexia and its cultural causes Animation & Artists Moving Image 1984 16 mins Uranium Hex Uranium mining in Canada and the destruction of the environment Animation & Artists Moving Image 1987 12 mins Plutonium Blonde A fractured narrative on a female worker at a plutonium terminal Animation & Artists Moving Image 1986 16 mins Ebb-tide Go with the flow: the marine life of Millport, Ayrshire, ingeniously filmed. Documentary 1936 9 mins Terminals A filmic exploration of the working conditions of female nuclear workers. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1985 20 mins Serpent River An anti-nuclear film on a community living in proximity to uranium mines in Canada. Animation & Artists Moving Image Documentary 1989 32 mins Fireworks Images of fireworks superimposed in the camera and in the optical printer Animation & Artists Moving Image 1976 3 mins Clouds Clouds filmed from a moving car producing the illusion of space within the frame Animation & Artists Moving Image 1975 3 mins Still Life A traditional ‘still life’ serves as subject for a film on colour transformation Animation & Artists Moving Image 1976 5 mins The Ten Commandments of Love An impassioned embrace on an ocean pier to 'The Ten Commandments of Love'. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1979 4 mins Light Music Classic expanded cinema work that proposes a direct relationship between the sonic and the visual. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1979 31 mins The Pecking Order A beautifully painted animated critique of modern intensive farming methods Animation & Artists Moving Image 1989 5 mins Returning Looking outside and looking back in the same moment; the collision of memory and reluctance. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1980 7 mins She Said A film on the theme of women’s work and free time 1983 27 mins "Now I Am Yours" Extreme state of religious and sexual ecstasy in this film on the figure of Saint Teresa Documentary 1993 33 mins Journey Reveries during a train journey are suggested though montage Animation & Artists Moving Image 1976 4 mins G A reflection on the relationship between language and work 1979 5 mins Three Paces An urban fairy tale where myth and reality constantly collide Animation & Artists Moving Image 1989 14 mins Swan Close-up images of a white swan as it prepares for flight Animation & Artists Moving Image 1986 3 mins Durga (A Ritual) Meaning is built through repetition in this filmic meditation of sexuality, loss and rebirth. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1986 23 mins Unfolding A council launderette as a site of oppression and possible resistance 1987 15 mins Fatima's Letter A woman remembers her past while travelling on the London Underground Animation & Artists Moving Image 1992 20 mins Chameleon A woman searches through an interior landscape, where she is both trapped and contained 1990 5 mins A Nosegay A homoerotic homage to Genet and Lautréamont with an angel and a hermaphrodite. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1986 17 mins L'Ange Frénétique A study of frustration and insolence featuring an epicene angel played by Cerith Wyn Evans 1986 5 mins Snig A young woman shakes eels out from between the sheets of a bed. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1982 5 mins Deck A reel of 8mm film undergoes a mysterious transformation through refilming, colour changing and printing Animation & Artists Moving Image 1971 14 mins Light Occupations: Lens and Mirror Film Playful investigation of the filmic equipment, particularly camera and projector Animation & Artists Moving Image 1973 3 mins Lens Hand Foot The filmmaker explores the relationship of her own body to the filmmaking apparatus Animation & Artists Moving Image 1973 3 mins The Cat and the Woman, A Cautionary Tale A woman loses her head to a cat in return for a man. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1987 2 mins Red Sea Spring tides and menstrual cycles at the full and new moon Animation & Artists Moving Image 1982 6 mins Mysteries A photomontage film that offers an interpretation of the mystery of the harvest. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1982 7 mins Free Show Three potentially violent domestic activities performed by a woman. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1979 17 mins Thinking Twice A film which attempts to reflect the rigour of the music featuring pianist Katharina Wolpe. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1997 10 mins Milk and Glass Boundaries are blurred as images of a woman’s body are projected onto domestic objects Animation & Artists Moving Image 1993 9 mins Hide & Seek A metaphorical and lyrical journey of discovery through childhood memories 1987 15 mins Imaginary A film in three parts shot in varying intimate and personal environments. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1989 16 mins Looking for the Moon Tentative gestures of hands and body become symbolic of trust and the need to escape Animation & Artists Moving Image 1987 5 mins That’s Entertainment/The Conjuror’s Assistants Frame by frame analysis of documentary footage taken at a children’s Christmas party. Documentary 1978 23 mins Stabat Mater An exultant journey through the emotional landscape of the filmmaker’s native Gibraltar. Drama 1990 8 mins Close to Home An image of freedom and the melancholy of parting in this film about Gibraltar Documentary 1985 28 mins Tracks A feminist collage/essay film that takes a critical look at certain feminist theories. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1989 28 mins More Women with a Movie Camera in our Rentals collection. Explore Rentals Left More from Women with a Movie Camera films in our Subscription collection. Explore Subscription Left
