[EFF19S11] Session 11: You’ll Never Work Alone
Cite as:
Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew
(2023):
[EFF19S11] Session 11: You’ll Never Work Alone.
Birkbeck College, University of London.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18743/DATA.00000318
Description
2 April, 09:30, Birkbeck Cinema
This one-day interdisciplinary public screening and symposium celebrated Cinenova, a volunteer-run, non-profit collective preserving and distributing the work of feminist film and video makers. The event showcased the work of Cinenova in the area of archiving and preservation, as well as their mission to keep a feminist film historiography alive and relevant for contemporary audiences. It also inaugurated a broader collaborative project with Birkbeck, which will explore experimental feminist filmmaking practices, the histories of feminist collectives, and the essayistic.
The symposium focused on the essayistic as an aesthetic and socio-political formal strategy of collective feminist filmmaking practice and as a means to give representation to women’s lives, both at work and in history. In so doing, the event also discussed the role of Cinenova as an archive for such work and the issues involved in curating and circulating it for a feminist film historiography in particular and for film culture in general. In order to illustrate such a conversation, the symposium looked in depth at two emblematic feminist filmmaking collectives forging essayistic and experimental film and video-making practices, often against the odds, and practised within distinct national settings. The first is Grupo Cine-Mujer, a Colombian feminist collective (1978-1990s) which aimed to speak for women in cinema through working with the very language of film; and the second is WITCH (Women’s IndependenT Cinema House), a collective based in Liverpool that supported the scripting, editing and distribution of films by women.
Symposium programme:
Introduction to Cinenova, with Janet McCabe (Birkbeck), Louise Shelley and Charlotte Procter (Cinenova)
Case Study 1: Introduction to Grupo Cine-Mujer, Colombian feminist collective (1978-1990s), with Catherine Grant (Birkbeck)
Presentation by Lorena Cervera (University College London), discussing her documentary practice in relation to Cine-Mujer and collective women’s documentary filmmaking practice in Latin America from the 1970s-1990s, including a premiere screening of Cervera’s documentary, Colectivo Cine-Mujer Colombia (2019).
Films:
¿Y su mamá qué hace?, Cine-Mujer, Columbia, 1982, digital, 9 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles
Carmen Carrascal, Eulalia Carrizosa/Cine-Mujer, Columbia, 1982, digital, 27 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles
Colectivo Cine-Mujer Colombia, Lorena Cervera, UK, 2019, digital, 11 minutes, English and Spanish with English subtitles
Presentation by Juana Suáraez (NYU Tisch School of the Arts) on Grupo Cine-Mujer and the archive.
Case Study 2: WITCH (Women’s IndependenT Cinema House)
Introduction to WITCH (Women’s IndependenT Cinema House), with Charlotte Procter (Cinenova) and Judy Mazonowicz, founding member of WiTCH.
Film: You’ll Never Work Alone, WITCH, UK, 1984, digital, 23 minutes, English
Introduction to Black Women’s Media Project, by Louise Shelley and Bea Freeman
Films: A Tribute to Black Women (They Don’t Get A Chance), Ann Carney/Barbara Phillips/Black Women’s Media Project, UK, 1986, digital, 20 minutes, English
How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear?, Rehana Zaman, UK, 2018, digital, 25 minutes, English
Round-table conversation with Deborah Findlater (Kingston School of Art), Bea Freeman, Judy Mazonowicz and Louise Shelley, discussing community media projects and collective practice, contemporary artist film practice and the essayistic. Chaired by Ash Reid (Goldsmiths, University of London)
This event was co-sponsored by Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities, Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality.
This one-day interdisciplinary public screening and symposium celebrated Cinenova, a volunteer-run, non-profit collective preserving and distributing the work of feminist film and video makers. The event showcased the work of Cinenova in the area of archiving and preservation, as well as their mission to keep a feminist film historiography alive and relevant for contemporary audiences. It also inaugurated a broader collaborative project with Birkbeck, which will explore experimental feminist filmmaking practices, the histories of feminist collectives, and the essayistic.
The symposium focused on the essayistic as an aesthetic and socio-political formal strategy of collective feminist filmmaking practice and as a means to give representation to women’s lives, both at work and in history. In so doing, the event also discussed the role of Cinenova as an archive for such work and the issues involved in curating and circulating it for a feminist film historiography in particular and for film culture in general. In order to illustrate such a conversation, the symposium looked in depth at two emblematic feminist filmmaking collectives forging essayistic and experimental film and video-making practices, often against the odds, and practised within distinct national settings. The first is Grupo Cine-Mujer, a Colombian feminist collective (1978-1990s) which aimed to speak for women in cinema through working with the very language of film; and the second is WITCH (Women’s IndependenT Cinema House), a collective based in Liverpool that supported the scripting, editing and distribution of films by women.
Symposium programme:
Introduction to Cinenova, with Janet McCabe (Birkbeck), Louise Shelley and Charlotte Procter (Cinenova)
Case Study 1: Introduction to Grupo Cine-Mujer, Colombian feminist collective (1978-1990s), with Catherine Grant (Birkbeck)
Presentation by Lorena Cervera (University College London), discussing her documentary practice in relation to Cine-Mujer and collective women’s documentary filmmaking practice in Latin America from the 1970s-1990s, including a premiere screening of Cervera’s documentary, Colectivo Cine-Mujer Colombia (2019).
Films:
¿Y su mamá qué hace?, Cine-Mujer, Columbia, 1982, digital, 9 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles
Carmen Carrascal, Eulalia Carrizosa/Cine-Mujer, Columbia, 1982, digital, 27 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles
Colectivo Cine-Mujer Colombia, Lorena Cervera, UK, 2019, digital, 11 minutes, English and Spanish with English subtitles
Presentation by Juana Suáraez (NYU Tisch School of the Arts) on Grupo Cine-Mujer and the archive.
Case Study 2: WITCH (Women’s IndependenT Cinema House)
Introduction to WITCH (Women’s IndependenT Cinema House), with Charlotte Procter (Cinenova) and Judy Mazonowicz, founding member of WiTCH.
Film: You’ll Never Work Alone, WITCH, UK, 1984, digital, 23 minutes, English
Introduction to Black Women’s Media Project, by Louise Shelley and Bea Freeman
Films: A Tribute to Black Women (They Don’t Get A Chance), Ann Carney/Barbara Phillips/Black Women’s Media Project, UK, 1986, digital, 20 minutes, English
How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear?, Rehana Zaman, UK, 2018, digital, 25 minutes, English
Round-table conversation with Deborah Findlater (Kingston School of Art), Bea Freeman, Judy Mazonowicz and Louise Shelley, discussing community media projects and collective practice, contemporary artist film practice and the essayistic. Chaired by Ash Reid (Goldsmiths, University of London)
This event was co-sponsored by Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities, Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality.
Previews
1 - EFF19S11 Introduction (EFF19S11 Cinenova YNWA 1 Cine Mujer introduction.WMA)
2 - EFF19S11 Discussion 1 (EFF19S11 Cinenova YNWA 2 Cine Mujer discussion.WMA)
3 - EFF19S11 Discussion 2 (EFF19S11 Cinenova YNWA 3 WITCH discussion.WMA)
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| Dataset Title: | [EFF19S11] Session 11: You’ll Never Work Alone |
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| Creators: | Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew |
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| Data collection method: | The Essay Film Festival, active since 2015, presents a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works. The events are now archived here for research purposes. |
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| Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues: | All film stills were provided by participating artists. |
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| Depositing User: | Emma Yapp | ||||||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2026 13:01 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2026 13:41 | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Birkbeck College, University of London |
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Cite as:
Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew
(2023):
[EFF19S11] Session 11: You’ll Never Work Alone.
Birkbeck College, University of London.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18743/DATA.00000318
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