Cinenova: Now Showing

Now Showing intends to materialise relationships between contemporary artist moving image practice and the feminist and organising legacies present in the Cinenova collection.

The format of the series is that an artist filmmaker is invited to select a film from the Cinenova collection which they would like to screen alongside a work of theirs.

Rehana Zaman - Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen
2014, 49 min
Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen is an episodic video that collides a fictional soap opera about a corporate take over with documentary fragments filmed by and about female migrant workers from the self led organisation Justice for Domestic Workers Leeds (J4DW Leeds). This six part film examines the shift in gendered and racially constructed worker relations from the 1980's to the present day.

Lai Ngan Walsh & Women and the Law Collective - Who Takes The Rap? Immigration
1986, 38 min
Who Takes The Rap? Immigration covers the history of immigration law in Britain from 1903 to the films present day. The film describes how different groups of immigrants arrived for work in the UK, only to find increasingly restrictive laws which kept them in low-paid, unskilled work and identified them as 'undesirable'. Footage of the Garners' Steak House strike and the Grunwick strike shows how these workers fought back against racism. Specific laws are examined and the film includes interviews with a number of immigrant women. The voices of two women rappers provide the commentary throughout, and the story of one woman's experience in trying to bring her son into Britain runs intermittedly through the film, reinforcing its theme.