Onwards and Outwards

Antonia and Jane's annual reunion dinner is the last remnant of a childhood friendship. As the evening approaches, each woman falls prey to paranoid recollections of the past year: mothers, lovers, careers and neuroses all crowd in as they prepare to measure up to each other once again.

What are the traditions of women’s filmmaking in Britain, and what are the conditions it needs to flourish? This symposium reflects on the achievements of women directors in British cinema and revisits the perennial question of women’s under-representation in British film culture.

Writer, editor, educator and activist Sophie Mayer is in discussion with filmmakers Hope Dickson Leach and Tina Gharavi, exploring the new generation of British independent filmmakers.

Screenings exploring people and places in transition, featuring a Q&A with director and screenwriter Joanna Hogg and film theorist Laura Mulvey.

Club Des Femmes in conversation with award-winning filmmaker and curator Campbell X about Black British Queer film aesthetic.

A double screening of Clio Barnard's Random Acts of Intimacy and The Arbor.

Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid's experimental investigation of personal psychology, Meshes Of The Afternoon, would serve as inspiration for Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar.

Screenings exploring the logic (or lack thereof) of everyday experience to bring about fresh revelation.

A double screening of two of Andrea Arnold's early social realist works: Wasp and Red Road.

A screening of Beeban Kidron's hit 1990 BBC drama series, with a screenplay by Jeanette Winterson, adapted from her novel of the same name.

Margaret Tait's film poem conveys the purity of island life in Orkney.

Join Kate Taylor and Jemma Desai and guests as we check the pulse of current curatorial activity in the UK and ask: are we witnessing a new curatorial shift; swapping elitist concerns with auteurism for a more searching cinephile activism?

Carine Adler's Under the Skin offers a moving exploration of loss and female relationships.

A screening of Carol Morley's powerful autobiographical work The Alcohol Years, featuring a Q&A with Morley.