Movies: Jo Ann Kaplan

Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings a...

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait....

An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew....

The Holy Family Album, Angela Carter’s sacrilegious take on Christian iconography, was one of the points of inspiration for curator Marie Mulvey-Roberts for the Strange Worlds Exhibition. The programme conceives of the representation of Christ in We...

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals....

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with St...

A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name....

About a personal experience of claustrophobia and how to deal with it. When you can't have another cup of coffee or another brandy because you just gotta get on the plane. And there you are. And suddenly there's a flight attendant saying "good mornin...

A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire....

Times are hard for little Sofia, as the Greek recession is taking its toll. With her Father out of work, they rely solely on Greedy Grumpy Granny's pension. Desperate times call for desperate measures; to what extremes will they go, when Granny is no...

A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?...

Directed by Jo Ann Kaplan....

Profile of four independent women filmmakers: Joanna Davis, Tina Keane, Annabel Nicolson and Lis Rhodes, who are shown at work with Felicity Sparrow of Circles, the Women's distribution group which they helped to found. They relate the struggle for a...

A woman sits alone in a bare white tiled bath, reading Georges Bataille’s ‘Story of the Eye.’ The bizarre events described in the text provoke a series of fantasies in which the room and its accoutrements become the stage and the woman the main playe...

Experimental drama....

"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made. As hand-drawn illustrations appear slowly and painfully on the pages of the book, showing us parts of...

Face of an Angel is inspired by Puccini’s opera La Fanciulla del West, set during the Californian gold rush. The film is shot is the scarred black landscape of an open cast mine in South Wales, one of the original coal mining areas which fuelled the ...

Directed by Jo Ann Kaplan....