Celluloid Ceiling

06/06/2026

Tonight in Richmond folks…

Join us for an evening with writer/comedienne Dr Clare Summerskill to discuss Gateway to Heaven: Fifty Years of Gay and Le***an Oral History

15/05/2026

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26/04/2026

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27/03/2026

💻 Fancy a virtual catch-up?

Our online meet-ups allow WFTV members from all over the country to connect - no matter where they're located. Join us for an afternoon of chatter.

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27/03/2026

Our differences aren’t the problem.

The divide comes from refusing to recognise, accept, and celebrate them - as Audre Lorde warned.

Justice means dismantling the discrimination that targets those differences.

Another world is possible when no one is asked to shrink, hide, or disappear.

27/03/2026

Congrats to Autumn.

The director of photography, who is of Filipino and African American Creole descent, had a powerful moment onstage as she invited all of the women in the Dolby Theatre to stand up.

27/03/2026

For more on Agnes Varda read Paul Sutton’s excellent book ‘In the Scene: Agnes Varda’ **** from Aurora Metro Books.

The pioneering French filmmaker and artist Agnès Varda met Calder in 1952, and the pair went on to become friends. Varda photographed Calder on many occasions during those years, capturing a range of indelible images, such as this iconic view of the artist with his standing mobile L’empennage in the streets of Paris.
“For me Calder is a great master. He was a friend, but he was a master,” Varda recalled in a 2015 interview. “He invented, instinctively, a way of re-creating the gentle movements of trees in the wind. He reinvented the beauty of nature.”

📷Calder with L’empennage (1953), Paris, 1954. Photograph by Agnès Varda. © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Agnès Varda