Invisible Women

Newcastle/Mexico City-based archive activists Invisible Women seek out and champion the work of female filmmakers who have been overlooked, un-credited or left out of the history of cinema.

This selection of boundary-pushing films demonstrates how women have seized the imaginative possibilities offered by animation to create witty, warm and wildly inventive explorations of identity, authorship and desire. Includes rarely screened work by Vera Neubauer, Joanna Quinn, Thalma-Goldman Cohen, Veronika Soul and Caroline Leaf.

Full programme:
Animation for Life Action (Vera Neubauer, 1978, 26 mins)
Elles (Joanna Quinn, 1992, 4mins)
Make Up (Joanna Fryer, 1978, 3 mins)
High Fidelity (Antoinette Starkiewicz, 1974, 4 mins)
What She Wants (Ruth Lingford, 1994, 5 mins)
Unknown Woman (Kayla Parker, 1991, 9 mins)
Stanley (Thalma Goldman-Cohen, 1979, 4 mins)
Springfield (Emma Calder, 1986, 7 mins)
Interview (Veronika Soul and Caroline Leaf, 1979, 13 mins)

Image from Interview (dir: Caroline Leaf & Veronika Soul, 1979) courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.

This event is supported by the National Lottery through Film Hub North as part of the Changing Times project.