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Film ID | ACE133 |
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Title | Seeing for Ourselves. Women working with film |
Series | Profiles |
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Date | 1983 |
Director | Margaret Williams |
Production Company | Arbor International |
Synopsis | A look at Circles, a company set up in 1980 to promote audiovisual work by women and to facilitate research and discussion of issues concerning women working in film and related media. |
Minutes | 56 min |
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Full synopsis |
ACE133.2 (00:00:00 - 00:07:54) Caption: “There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man and there is no reason why she cannot completely master every technicality of the art.” Alice Guy, Woman’s place in Photoplay production, 1914. Text seen as exhibit in window. Exterior the offices of Circles. Circles worker Felicity Sparrow taking a telephone booking. Sparrow VO describing Circles’s activities: distributing audiovisual works by women, organising shows of this and related disciplines, enabling women-only discussion groups, researching women’s film history and bringing earlier productions back into circulation. Photographs of Alice Guy, and stills from her work. Sparrow’s VO describes her career in France and America. Sparrow talking about Guy while introducing a programme of Circles material to and audience. Excerpt from Guy’s A House Divided (1913). Photographs from Often During the Day (1979) being projected onto the film-maker, Joanna Davis. Davis’s VO talking about the importance of careful co-operative programming, the showing of older films alongside those of contemporary independent film-makers, etc. “We see Circles as a small network of resistance, drawing together women working in opposition to the industry, an industry that has deliberately excluded women.” ACE133.3 (00:07:54 - 00:19:51) ACE133.4 (00:19:51 - 00:31:23) ACE133.5 (00:31:23 - 00:44:32) ACE133.6 (00:44:32 - 00:56:00) |
Full credits | We wish to thank Air Gallery, Minnie Bunt, Circles Distribution, Chisenhale Dance Space, Mick Duffield, Four Corners, Anita Harper, JVC (UK) Ltd., Jacky Tyler, Catherine Terris, Independent Radio News, The Women at Greenham Common; also the women in the discussion Val Allen, Lezli-An Barrett, Elaine Burrows, Julia Defferary, Hilary Dunn, Margaret Gillan, Emma Hindley, Mary Pat Leece, Sally McLeay, Jayne Parker, Mary Prestidge, Auriol Roberts, Susan Stein Barbara Stokes; and the Five Women Jo Davis, Tina Keane, Annabel Nicolson, Lis Rhodes, Felicity Sparrow. Series Editor David Curtis; Camera Erika Stevenson; Assistant Caroline Spry; Sound Diana Ruston; Assistant Mandy Rose; Dubbing Mixer Aad Wirtz; Music Lindsay Cooper, Disband NYC, Pomme, Peggie Morrison; Editor JoAnn Kaplan; Assistant Li Guy; Director Margaret Williams; Producer Fiz Oliver. An Arbor International Production for Channel 4 & Arts Council of Great Britain. © 1983. |
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ACE133.2 (00:00:00 - 00:07:54) ACE133.3 (00:07:54 - 00:19:51) ACE133.4 (00:19:51 - 00:31:23) ACE133.5 (00:31:23 - 00:44:32) ACE133.6 (00:44:32 - 00:56:00) |
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