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On the occasion of Laura Mulvey becoming a BFI Fellow in December 2025, Club Des Femmes decided to share our memories of Laura, who has been a friend des femmes and inspiration for our curation! So and Selina made a short video for the BFI event, but it was edited down – you can watch the full version with subtitles below, followed by visual and written tributes from CDF, and a special video tribute from Sarah Wood.
11 June 2025: Selina had been invited by Barbican curator Alex Davidson to select the opening night film for his Queer 70’s season, and now here we were in Barbican Screen 1. We chose to fill the venue’s main screen with a celebration of the legacy of Barbara Hammer, a true pioneer of LGBTQ+ cinema, with a special screening featuring her groundbreaking 8mm shorts Dyketactics, Superdyke, Women I Love and Double Strength, with an extended introduction by Selina.
Filmmaker Maz Murray / @maz_murray and writer D Mortimer / @fragile_masculinity in conversation about their recent visual/performance works Thigh Rise [watch it on Girls on Film] and Between the Stacks – the hybrid play/text – accompanied by an introduction by Forest Greenway (they/them), a writer and bookseller based in London.
By So Mayer
The Gold Diggers (Sally Potter, 1983) screens twice with intros by CDF’s So Mayer, as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2025, 23-27 July in and around Bristol.
Saturday 26 July, 11 am, Watershed Bristol, with The London Story (Sally Potter, 1986).
Sunday 27 July, 1 pm, Curzon Cinema & Arts Clevedon (with free tour of the cinema at 12!).
By Martina Attille
Artist Leena Habiballa, is a research-based practitioner who has emerged into the poetics of moving image production and research on knowledge canonisation, language, and care out of an academic grounding in cellular and molecular biology, the science of genetics, genomic medicine, and a PhD in the Biology of Ageing.
In advance of a one-off International Women’s Day screening of My Name is Andrea by Pratibha Parmar, Club Des Femmes are honoured to publish this transcript from a career-spanning interview by Shamira Meghani, which took place on 25 November 2021 at the University of Cambridge Faculty of English Postcolonial and Related Literatures & Queer Cultures Graduate Seminar, chaired by Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell.
By Elhum Shakerifar
Amel Moyersoen’s “afraid of losing the echoes” has been shown in London as part of the exhibition Collective Imaginings and in Brussels, and was selected for the System D Festival 2023, and MOOOV Festival 2024.
The Student Nurses (1970) is screening at Watershed, Bristol, on Thurs 25 July, 8.30 pm, as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2024, who commissioned this essay by Anahit Behrooz, which is crossposted with kind permission from their new online home on Letterboxd.
by Marian Larragy
Breaking Ground (dir. Michelle Deignan), tells the story of The London Irish Women’s Centre that emerged in the 1980s and lasted almost 30 years.
By Maria Paradinas
How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish has screened at a number of film festivals and at Barbican London, where Maria Paradinas hosted a ScreenTalk with filmmaker Mania Akbari. Subscribe to the Barbican’s ScreenTalk podcast for a recording of the discussion when it becomes available.
By Ros Murray
Club des Femmes are hosting a screening of the director’s cut of Break My Fall (Redux) at Rio Cinema, Sunday 26 February 2023, 3pm, with a live, in-person Q&A with writer/director Kanchi Wichmann in conversation with Sam McBean. Book your tickets now! Use promo code CDFXBMF2023 on the payment page to get £4 off your full-price ticket!
At Club des Femmes HQ we’re sad that the current health crisis means we won’t all be able to meet in person for several months. We hope social distancing can keep everyone as well and as safe as possible. But social distance isn’t going to stop us. If there’s one thing feminism’s taught us it’s the importance of making community.