This workshop features four short presentations by film-makers from the University of Sussex, who have made films as part of their academic work – either as PhD students or lecturers, followed by a discussion of the pathways and funding for this kind of work.

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Alison Ramsay  Changing the Change: Revisioning Menopause on Screen

How does the celebrity-led ‘meno-boom’ where the previously taboo topic of menopause is endlessly dissected on social media relate to diverse women’s actual experience of ‘the change’? This compilation film humorously appropriates a plethora of archive from the last 75 years to explore the phenomenon.  

Joy Stacey انتي صامدة  (She the Steadfast), 2023

Developed with Palestinian women living in the West Bank between 2016-2022, She the Steadfast stitches together five collaborative women's theatre performances with patchwork clips of archival materials from Palestine, Palestinian diaspora and international media, presenting a layered history of gender and identities in occupied Palestine.

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Lizzie Thynne Independent Miss Craigie, 2021

Jill Craigie (1911 -99) was one of the first British women to make documentaries. Dual narrative voices – from actual interviews and from a script performed by Hayley Atwell – evoke the split between Craigie’s persona as a young, apparently confident film-maker and her later dismissal of her work.

Tim Hopkins Four Quartets on Film 2023

Film responses to current string quartets, premiered at Aldeburgh Festival, 2023. The films’ visuality relates to the action of string playing - the motion of the bow, abrasions between media (video, paint on glass and acrylic sheets, 35mm film, maquettes, paper, calligraphy) revealing colour over time.

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Supported by The School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex

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