An evening of women's health on screen, featuring films by Rita Maria Conry, Anna Fearon, and Bronwen Parker-Rhodes, and a talk by Dr Elinor Cleghorn
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Doors: 6:30pm [talk commences at 7pm promptly]
Tickets £5 general admission; £3 low income/unwaged
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Join us for an evening of women's health on screen, featuring a screening of Rita Maria Conry's The UTI Documentary (2021), Anna Fearon's Motherhood (2020), and Bronwen Parker-Rhodes' Menopause Stories (2020).
The evening will open with a talk by Dr Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women, and close with a panel Q&A with the filmmakers.
The event will explore issues surrounding women and non-binary people's health. We will discuss the past and present of chronic and acute ill-health; experiences with healthcare professionals and systems; the challenge of representing personal and intimate narratives on film; pain and suffering; friendship and communities of support; obstacles to female filmmakers' success in a male-dominated industry; and the value and importance of individual testimony in both medicine and documentary filmmaking.
This event is presented by Self Examination, a project run collaboratively by filmmaker Rita Maria Conry and medical historian Agnes Arnold-Foster; it seeks to tell feminist stories about health both past & present
The UTI Documentary (2021) tells the story of women's experiences of Urinary Tract Infections, and advocates for healthcare change. It was made by Rita Maria Conry and Agnes Arnold-Forster and is part of the King's College London and Wellcome Trust-funded Healthy Scepticism project.
Motherhood (2020) explores the nuanced and honest experiences of Black motherhood. It was commissioned by Channel 4 Random Acts for their Black & Proud series for Black History Month, and made by photographer and filmmaker Anna Fearon.
In Menopause Stories (2020), six women openly share their intimate, complicated and illuminating experiences with menopause. It was made for the New York Times by filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes.
Dr Elinor Cleghorn is a writer, historian, and researcher. Her non-fiction debut, Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World, unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies.