Week 7, An iconic excerpt from the 1979 film Hair introduces the content of this programme. Different Hair Stories will be told, a subject on many people’s mind at home in quarantine.
PlanetHeroines28th May 2020
Week 5: The programme The Ambassadors challenges heteronormative gender categories and heterosexuality as the social standard and explores a shift towards diversity as the norm.
PlanetHeroines14th May 2020
This programme is a proposal to liberate your mind, decolonising it by looking at opinions and assumptions, discrimination and empowerment. It starts and ends with a piece from Saturday Night Live (SNL), a US- American late-night live television sketch, comedy and variety show. Reese Witherspoon helps Leslie Jones to manoeuvre through White…
PlanetHeroines6th May 2020
PlanetHeroines2nd May 2020
Online Film Festival - A weekly programme of films made by, or about, women.
PlanetHeroines23rd April 2020
This programme deals with works by artists and filmmakers that animate paintings, graphic novels, drawings and shadows.
PlanetHeroines23rd April 2020
#StaySafe The Coronavirus pandemic is affecting us all in some shape or form, and as a small organisation, we don’t have substantial resources to support those whose lives and livelihoods are under threat. But, as Angela Merkel once said: “A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.” Here is our…
PlanetHeroines22nd April 2020
Notes on Prologue At the Photographer's seems like the perfect film to start with: a start with photography and Alice Guy-Blaché (1873 –1968), the first woman ever to direct a film. (more of her work in later programmes). We move from a studio in Paris to one on Stradbroke Island in Australia…
PlanetHeroines15th April 2020
Lisl Ponger’s work concerns stereotypes, racism and the construction of the gaze. It is located at the interface between art, art history and ethnology in the mediums of photography, film, installation and text.
PlanetHeroines9th April 2020
