Painter turned filmmaker Anna Thew discusses her first steps in filmmaking, leading to her feature film Hilda was a Goodlooker, which dramatises her mother's reminiscences and Behind Closed Doors, which deals with the trauma of losing her mother suddenly. Anna's cinema is deeply personal and yet possesses universal appeal, which will be approachable to audiences everywhere. Highly literate and indeed cine-literate, these are works that amply reward repeated viewings to explore their links to other works.

Find a selection of Anna's films on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user4605273

Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:

Anne Rees Mogg

Rose Lowder

Peter Gidal

Malcolm LeGrice

David Hall

Chris Wellsby

Guy Sherwin

Marcel Duchamp

John Smith

Steve Farrer

Katerina Thomadaki

Maria Klonaris

Yann Beauvais

Cordelia Swan

John Maybury

Derek Jarman

Stan Brakhage

Kenneth Anger

Terence Davies

George Saxon

Writers discussed in this episode include:

Alexei Sayle

Walter Benjamin

Jean Genet