Whether our interest has been ignited as a result of our recent collaboration with Cinenova – or whether a galvanizing of enthusiasm is happening more generally – there seems to be a plethora of re-visitings, re-stagings and re-imaginings of both seminal and peripheral works from women filmmakers taking place.

For a historical perspective, we enjoyed visiting the upper level of the Dara Birnbaum show at South London Gallery where some of her earliest single-channel video pieces – intimate investigations into her identity and self-depiction as well as documents of her experimental film practice - are on show.

We’ll be making sure we catch the upcoming Barbara Hammer and Joyce Wieland programmes at Tate Modern (Barbara Hammer ‘The Fearless Frame’ Feb. 3^rd until Feb 26^th). The Wieland programme will run from the 20^th to the 22^nd of January and will be also be accompanied by a study day at LUX.

The focus of these screenings, interventions and lectures shifts from documentations of individual contributions to filmmaking to more collaborative presentations that aim to challenge tropes and traditions of women in film and women as filmmakers.

Read more about Bodies Assembling, our recent collaboration with Cinenova HERE.

Image by Joyce Wieland.