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By Cathy Brennan
The Lighthouse is available to rent from Vimeo on Demand via Fixafilm until Thursday 6th August, as part of Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema, to mark the tenth anniversary of the film’s debut. It is available on DVD in the UK from Second Run Films.
By Pamela Hutchinson
The Watermelon Woman is available to stream for subscribers of the BFI Player and the Criterion Channel, and via its UK distributor’s Peccadillo Player.
By Helen de Witt
Sadly, not all the films discussed are available – or available from a single source.
By Grace Barber-Plentie
Sweet Sugar Rage is available to stream again for free Friday 10-Thursday 16 July 2020 via LUX, who screened it as part of their Picturing the Pandemic programme.
By Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Daisies is available to stream via Second Run’s new Vimeo on Demand service, £4.99 for one week rental.
By Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli
SO PRETTY is being released on June 12 by Sentient.Art.Film in the US. International outreach will begin in July.
By Hyun Jin Cho
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals is available now in paperback, ebook and audiobook, read by Allyson Johnson.
By Clara Bradbury-Rance
Clara’s book Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory is forthcoming in paperback from Edinburgh University Press.
By Girish Shambu
HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE is available to stream for a limited time at Vimeo, thanks to Rea Tajiri.
By Isabel Moir
WHERE I GROW OLD is available for streaming rental via IFFR Unleashed.
By Helen Charman
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double LP from Rough Trade.
By Sarah Crewe
Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, or via Rough Trade in the UK, or direct from their label Secretly Canadian in the US.