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By Maria Cabrera
I started writing an intro to this about two weeks ago and reading it back now I’ve realised how my mindset has changed a bit. I don’t want to romanticise the notion of staying in or to pretend that a pandemic isn’t happening because that would be delusional.
By Ania Ostrowska
The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020.
By Jenny Clarke
I am currently living an unintentionally minimalist life in Edinburgh; I moved myself and some essentials up North and across the border, but I’ve yet to move the bulk of possessions here.
By Sarah Wood
I heard the news that my friend Clare had died in China. She’s the first person I know whose death is caught up with this pandemic.
By Selina Robertson
Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, 2013) is out now in paperback. Marine Girls’ albums Beach Party (1981) and Lazy Ways(1983) can be listened to via YouTube.
By So Mayer
TRIGONOMETRY is broadcast on Sunday evenings on BBC2, starting with eps 1&2 Sun 15 March. All 8 episodes are available now on iPlayer, for a year.
Explore the legacy of our groundbreaking Revolt She Said: Women and Film after ’68 tour here.
Sarah Crewe is a working class feminist psychogeographical poet. Her first collection floss is published by Aquifer Press. Her poem “the german sisters” was written for a screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s film as part of The Spirit of Liverpool: Reclaiming Women’s Histories Through Film.
Jenny Clarke is a freelance curator of films, movies and slime videos, and a member of the Club des Femmes collective. Find her on Twitter @jennyaclarke
DAISIES + SAUTE MA VILLE! screened at the Lexi as part of their Summer Film School, and CdF’s So Mayer went along to offer an introduction to Vera Chytilova’s wild stylings.
Including our CDFesto, a timeline of revolts and revolutions related to our film programme from 1968–1992, fabulous images from our films, and choice quotations from our fantastic contributors.