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....

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

An experimental German film...

Based on “Emma Zunz,” a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the film moves through the internal voices of Emma’s character, whose evolution between crime, revenge and justice assumes—read from the context of the social struggles of the 60s and 70s—a de...