Riddles of the Sphinx

A classic of feminist avant-garde cinema, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen''s Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s, as she confronts the complex politics of motherhood, domestic labour and work. With a kaleidoscopic array of cinematic techniques and poetic devices, the film charts Louise''s process as she quest...