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Week 32, Upside Down World, Strange times make for strange programmes. Follow this one associatively through an upside down world, a world that had once seemed solid and is turning out to be quite undependable.

Week 31, MS Robot : Maria, Sophia or Ava and others, are robots designed by men to resemble women

Week 30, Houses and Blouses. Patterns and ornaments on houses or garments can be more than just repeated lines, shapes and colours. In many traditional societies the painted, woven or embroidered symbols pass on traditional knowledge.

Week 29, Experimental - We are used to the language of feature films. Experimental film challenges this make-believe reality by going back to the material itself, exploring  its components such as filmic time, the possibility of making 24 decisions per second (Peter Kubelka), the frame and its borders, light and shadow, the…

Week 27, Every Moment is Decisive: The photographic work by women from different times and places is the content of this programme.

Week 26, Still Celebrating : The celebration continues with friends’ own works or recommendations.

After sending out invitations to my female friends so many responded with gifts of their own films or suggestions that I decided to split one big party into two smaller ones according to Covid19 safety measures in real life that don’t allow for more than ten people to be together inside at…

What is always or frequently named after or in honour of women and what isn’t, but should be, is the thread running through this programme.

Week 23, Inked : Adorning the skin, permanently or just for special occasions or a performance, this programme shows how different women from different cultures feel about tattooing, stitching or painting their bodies and  touching on issues of tradition, self-empowerment and pleasure.