New research has shown that women filmmakers are far more in evidence in collections of amateur film than ever before, we just haven’t looked for them in the right places.
Join film curator Dr Zoë Viney Burgess for this online event to find out more about the women filmmakers in the region. How has their work been hidden? Why are we only finding them now? What can we learn about them and how their work has shaped our shared past?
WFSA holds over 38,000 historic film, video and sound items telling the story of our region, central southern England. This online screening features an introduction, film screening and interactive Q&A.
Dr Zoë Viney Burgess is Film Curator at Wessex Film and Sound Archive. Her own research focusses on gender and class in the amateur film collection of WFSA between 1895 and 1950. Between September 2023 and November 2024 she was part of the Women in Focus project team – a joint UK-Ireland collaboration between the University of East Anglia, Maynooth University, and the University of Sussex. Zoë recently joined the PRISM research group at University of West London as a Senior Research Fellow.