F is for Film, F is for Feminism: A weekend workshop and screening programme

As the #metoo  movement continues to gather force, and female stars wear black to the Golden Globe awards, this screening and workshop pauses to reflect on some of the female filmmakers who have preceded the current furore, using film to campaign for feminism, and feminism as the underlying force, in films which range from the confrontational and personal, to the experimental and poetic.

F is for Film, F is for Feminism, Friday 23rd November, 6pm to 8pm and Saturday 24th November, 12.30pm to 3.30pm, 16+

The artist, curator and writer Lucy Reynolds shares her research into feminist filmmaking in an evening and afternoon of screenings and discussion. Plucking books from GWL’s film section, and films from the LUX and Cinenova archive, Lucy illuminates the diverse ways in which film has been shaped by feminist debate, and women’s lived experience, from the 1930s to the present time.

The screening programme on Friday will present short films spanning the 1930s to the present, from when it was uncommon for women to make films at all, to those with an explicitly feminist message to convey. These will provide the basis for Lucy’s discussion the following afternoon, when she will present some of the ideas and lives behind the films.

Participants are invited to attend both the Friday night screening and then come along to the Saturday afternoon discussion with Lucy, although you are welcome to attend just one of these events if you can’t make it to both.

You can find the link to the discussion workshop here.

Booking

This screening is open to all (16+) and is free to attend. Please book below (you will be taken through the shopping cart but no charge will be made) or you can call us on 0141 550 2267. If you have booked a place and are no longer able to attend please let us know so that we can make your place available to someone else.