Text by Tracey Francis, Cinenova Working Group This year, 2020 which is already infamous, has challenged us in more ways…
Watch online: A Tribute to Black Women (They don’t get a chance) – Ann Carney & Barbara Phillips (1986)
Image: Video still. A Tribute to Black Women (They Don’t Get A Chance) – Ann Carney & Barbara Philips, 1986. Image description: On…
Featured Filmmaker: Alix Mumford
Director of Back to Josie (UK, 1997, 8mins) distributed by Cinenova. Text by Tracey Francis. In March 2016 I curated…
Preview works online from the Cinenova Collection
A digital collection of selected works from Cinenova are available for online previewing for research purposes only. The preview account…
Thursday 23rd April 2020, Online: Susan Stein Tracks (UK, 1989, 24mins)
As part of Brighton CCA’s online exhibition COMMUNAL two films from the Cinenova collection will be screened online within their…
Thursday 16 April 2020, Online: Adriana Monti Scoula Senza Fine (1983)
As part of Brighton CCA’s online exhibition COMMUNAL two films from the Cinenova collection will be screened online within their…
Featured Work: Leila and the Wolves – Heiny Srour (Lebanon/UK, 1984, 93mins)
Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic patterns, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the…
Featured Works: A Comedy in Six Unatural Acts by Jan Oxenberg (USA, 1975, 25mins)
Jan Oxenberg’s charmingly raw, politically-charged and remarkably funny celebration of the American lesbian experience validates the nuanced voice of a…
Saturday 16 November 2019: Fringe! Club Des Femmes 2 Decades of Dyke Shorts
Club des Femmes celebrates 40 years of Circles and Cinema of Women (COW)/Cinenova with an event that showcases some of…
Featured Work: Clotheslines – Roberta Cantow (USA, 1982, 32mins)
A film that takes laundry seriously as a form of folkart, a fraught social signifier and lens for women to…