Adventure Pictures

ORLANDO is a story of the quest for love, and it is also an ironic dance through English history. Addressing contemporary concerns about gender and identity, the film is remarkably true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf, but it also skilfully adapts the original story to give it a striking, cinemat...

THE TANGO LESSON is about a female filmmaker who discovers and falls in-love with the tango. In between bouts of writing a screenplay for Hollywood with which she finds herself increasingly dissatisfied she places herself under the tutelage of Pablo, an Argentinean tango dancer living in Paris. A...

YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neil plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband, Sh...

Featuring a stunning cast, The Party is a witty, sharp and very funny new comedy from acclaimed British filmmaker Sally Potter.

London, 1962. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust es...

The ground-breaking first feature from the director of ORLANDO and THE TANGO LESSON, THE GOLD DIGGERS is a key film of early Eighties feminist cinema. Made with an all-woman crew, featuring stunning photography by Babette Magolte and a score by Lindsay Cooper it embraces a radical and experimenta...

Rehearsals for a fundraising gala become the arena for a struggle between two men; one, the gala director and the other, a richly talented but unstable rock drummer. As their battle for expression and control escalates against a relentless rhythmic backdrop, their public and private selves explos...

Michelangelo, an unseen schoolboy armed only with a mobile phone, goes behind the scenes at a New York fashion show during seven days in which an accident on the catwalk turns into a murder investigation, and his interviews with key players become a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis....

Fegele (Christina Ricci), a Russian Jewish refugee working in a variety troupe in Paris just before the Second World War, is befriended by Lola, a white Russian exile (Cate Blanchet). Fegele meets Cesar, a gypsy (Johnny Depp) in the world of the opera and they fall in love. But When the German Na...

Since its release in 1980, Sally Potter's rewriting of Puccini's opera, La Boheme, has become a classic in feminist film theory. A model for the deconstruction of the Hollywood film, Thriller turns the conventional role of women as romantic victims in fiction on its head. Mimi, the seamstress her...

Spy spoof revolving around the unlikely alliance of three eccentric characters and their mission to uncover government foreign policy duplicity. Beautifully and humorously choreographed against London's most famed locales. Produced in association with the British Film Institute and Channel Four T...

1987 (UK)
4 x 30 minute episodes Airing in September and October 1987 and broadcast on Saturday evenings, this four-part Channel 4 series – directed by Sally Potter

Examined emotions through the eyes of men, women and children of different ages, backgrounds and cultures.

Each half-hour programm...

From an idea by Renny Bartlett and Sian Thomas, I AM AN OX, I AM A HORSE, I AM A MAN, I AM A WOMAN is a documentary featuring interviews with Russian film directors Lana Gogoberidze and Kira Muratova, and actress Ina Churikova, amongst others. The film investigates the representation of women and...

One of the earliest events to combine dance on film projected in juxtaposition with live performances by the same dancers. The films included rehearsals of the sequences being danced in their final form on stage; portraits of individual dancers, and different interpretations of the same segment o...

8mm footage of dancers each performing a single movement was projected onto a ground glass screen and refilmed on 16mm to create layered new sequences.

Release year: 1970
Genre: Dance, Art

Double screen film of six children playing on the street below (three sets of twins). Filmed through two adjacent cameras, one with colour film and one with black and white. When presented, two projectors are used so that the images appear side by side allowing the children to move through the fr...

Film shot one frame at a time, of three faces, including a brother and sister, which merge to become one, followed by a short sequence of minimalist gesture.

Release year: 1969
Genre: Art

The life and death of a teenage runaway. Nominated for Royal Television Society Award 1992.

Genre: Documentary
Year: 1992

A young people's report on the state of the nation.

Genre: Documentary
Year: 1995

Three women talk about being married to the game.

Genre: Documentary

Men talk openly for the first time about their encounters with prostitutes.

Genre: Documentary

Two pensioners, living on their own, keep a video diary through the winter months.

Genre: Documentary

What transforms the mild-mannered businessman into a raging psycho on the roads?

Genre: Documentary

The life of a Jehovah's Witness community.

Genre: Documentary

The men who investigate London's rising tide of arson.

Genre: Documentary

Two homeless building workers on the day before Christmas.

Genre: Documentary

A Short Film About Driving.

Genre: Documentary

Three women from three African countries—Kenya, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso—tell of their struggle to feed their families. Their stories give a human context to Africa's relentless slide into perpetual famine.

Women, who grow 75 percent of Africa's food, are often impeded by the men in their vill...

A mother and father's desperate search for their runaway daughter.

Genre: Documentary

A father of ten from Dublin goes missing without a trace...

Genre: Documentary

Homeless children speak out for themselves about life without a home.

Genre: Documentary

A mother's search for her abducted children.

Genre: Documentary

Women farmers in Africa are not given a fair deal.

This documentary argues that neglect of women farmers is a major reason for famine in Africa. Three quarters of Africa's food is grown by women, but most of Africa's land is owned by men, and most agricultural investment, advice and technology i...

The ceremony, which took place in December 2003, was organized by Rinpoche's children, Jigme Tromge Rinpoche and Dawa Tromge, and conducted as an elaborate fire offering. Attended by more than a thousand of Rinpoche's devoted students from all around the world, it was led by many renowned Tibetan...