Sustainable Resilience in Women’s Film and Video Organizations: A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History is a website about women’s film and video organizations, a vast and vibrant sector of moving image culture still vastly unknown to the general audience and largely overlooked in film and media scholarship. To overcome this knowledge gap, the academic research project on which this website is based has investigated a discrete number of non-profit, all-women+, feminist and  LGBTQ organizations conceived as film and video centres, archives, distribution companies, or  associations. These are, in order of foundation:  

1. Drac Màgic
2. Women Make Movies
3. Groupe Intervention Vidéo
4. Leeds Animation Workshop
5. bildwechsel
6. Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir

In choosing this corpus, priority was given to organizations that have maintained a discrete yet continuing  presence within the precarious area of independent cinema, challenging an audiovisual industry and a cultural system dominated by institutionalized, state-funded, and corporate forms of audiovisual production and distribution. While situated in the Global North, these organizations have always been involved in third-worldist, postcolonial, and intersectional feminist and LGBTQ politics and networks to advance women’s rights within transnational communities and circuits.

Trailblazers in feminist/LGBTQ media forms and styles, they are inspirational for new generations that are awakening to gender awareness after the recent resurgence of activism through embodied action and collective solidarity. This research has led to the publication of an homonymous book in July 2023. Launched a year after the publication of the book, this website aims to expand on the information and resources in the book and to offer a resource for both academics and non-academics. 

By utilizing a multimedia approach, the project highlights the diverse and inclusive approaches through which these organizations have been developing, circulating, and preserving the cinematic works of female film and video-makers from all over the world.