Movies: Sheila McLaughlin

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled....

Not to be confused with Luc Besson's film of the same title from the same year. Documentarian Andrew Horn's second narrative feature....

Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereotypes and social taboos with icy self-posse...

With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, ficti...

Over three silent sequences, the short film shows moments of sustained, internal tension just before an emotional outburst on the part of the protagonists....

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha's transgressions lead to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual...

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin....

An experimental German film...