Seeing for Ourselves. Women working with film - ACE133.2

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."