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Cinenova is a non-profit organisation dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women. Formed in 1991 from the merger of two feminist distributors, Circles and Cinema of Women, Cinenova provides the means to discover and watch experimental films, narrative feature films, artists film and video, documentary and educational videos.Through national and international distribution, Cinenova acts as an agency for artists, educators, curators and their audiences. Cinenova is a source of very specific knowledge, a network and cultural community that engages directly with women's film and video work, and with the question of how to make this knowledge more publicly accessible. Cinenova offers an extensive archive and expert advice relating to film and video directed by women, with a practice informed by its history as a key resource in the UK independent film and video distribution sector.

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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>A monthly film programme</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>£4/2/donation (+eventbrite booking fees)</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>Upcoming:</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>Lucy Parker and Adriana Monti</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>Thursday 17 March 2016</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>7-8.30pm</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>at The Showroom, NW8 8PQ</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>Films:</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>Lucy Parker - new work</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>Adriana Monti - Scuola Senza Fine, 1983, 40 Minutes</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa">Lucy Parker has a research led practice which adopts collaborative filmmaking methods when making work with a community. She is interested in ways that social networks give agency to individuals and how film can have a social impact in its production and screening.  She has made previous work with a community writing group and residential home for adults with learning difficulties and is currently producing a film about workplace blacklisting.  Lucy lectures in filmmaking at Kingston University.</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><STRONG>Adriana Monti - Scuola Senza Fine, 1983, 40 Minutes</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa"><SPAN>The 150 Hours Courses were an educational experiment implemented in Italy beginning in 1974, available to factory workers and farmers initially, and expanding to include women a couple of years later. The courses were non-vocational; they were not intended to improve one’s productivity at work, but rather to allow for personal and collective growth. The courses sought to help workers reflect not only upon their working conditions but also on their lives. A large part was devoted to the re-elaboration and reinterpretation of what was defined as the "lived experience" of those attending: their experiences with work, emigration, cultural and language discrimination, union struggles, etc. Scuola Senza Fine shows how the experiment extended into the lives of women taking the course, most of whom were housewives. The film was produced in collaboration with these students as part of their studies for the class, turning the curriculum's questions about the representation of women into questions about the representation of themselves. Adriana Monti writes in her introduction to the film: "After I had been working with a particular group of housewives for a year we started shooting the film Scuola Senza Fine (literally School Without End) almost casually, in 1979. I was able to get equipment free of charge and money to pay for the film was made available. Rediscovering the pleasure of reading and studying was reliving their adolescence. It was important for them to have teachers to whom they could tell in writing what they had done and thought, their past history and plans for the future. The film shows how the women related to each other at that time and the special closeness each woman felt for every other – perhaps because they came from the same place, or shared the same ideals and way of thinking, or, simply, because they were fond of each other. For many women, rediscovering the mother/teacher relationship meant being able to express thoughts which had often been undervalued or disregarded (most of the housewives attending the course had given up their education to go to work or had not been able to make use of the knowledge they had already, because they stayed at home after getting married). The opportunity to relive that relationship in a learning situation stimulated a very interesting kind of writing and thought."</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa">This new screening programme will runs monthly , the series intends to materialise relationships between contemporary artist moving image practice and the feminist and organising legacies present in the Cinenova collection.</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa">The format of the series is that an artist filmmaker is invited to select a film from the Cinenova collection which they would like to screen alongside a work of theirs.</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa">Future invited protagonists include: Richard John Jones, Grace Schwindt, Letitia Beatriz, Patrick Staff</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa">Cinenova Feminist Film and Video Distributor was founded in 1991 following the merger of two feminist film and video distributors, Circles and Cinema of Women. Each was formed in the early 1980s in response to the lack of recognition of women in the history of the moving image. Both organisations, although initially self-organised and unfunded, aimed to provide the means to support the production and distribution of women’s work in this area, and played critical roles in the creation of an independent and radical media.</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa">A digital archive of selected works from Cinenova distribution is available for viewing at The Showroom. For details on how to view the digital archive: http://www.theshowroom.org/projects/cinenova-digital-archive</DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_45m_ _2vxa">http://www.cinenova.org</DIV>

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