Laura Mulvey

Chantal Akerman - Always on the Move

Chantal Akerman is only 25 when her acclaimed film 'Jeanne Dielman' is released in 1975. It is a bold film, with which she immediately makes a name for herself and will influence many generations of filmmakers. But Akerman is much more than that. In the years that follow, she makes documentaries, comedies, a musical, installations, etc. Until her death in 2015, she will continue to reinvent herself. The documentary features collaborators and admirers talking about her courage, her audacity and her never-ending search. Interviews with: Claire Atherton, Eric de Kuyper, Jan Decorte, Marilyn Watelet, Isabel Stevens, Laura Mulvey, Anke Brouwers, Céline Brouwez, Lukas Dhont.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

The Amazed Spectator

A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?

The Illusionists

Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo. Their target? Women, and increasingly men and children. "The Illusionists" turns the mirror on media, exposing the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us.

The Eye of the Beholder

A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent effect on him.

Home Movies 1971-81

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin

A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984.

Angel in the House

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse and her essay Professions for Women, both read by feminist filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey.

Open Door: The Other Cinema

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC community programme unit.

Riddles of the Sphinx

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.