Belfast Film Festival: Women and the Law Collective 
Women & the Law Collective produced an incredible body of work, all produced in 1986 they explore the state of the UK legal system and its means of control through immigration law and forced economic dependency to maintain race, class, and gender hierarchies.
Who Takes The Rap - Immigration
Director: Lai Ngan Walsh, Women and The Law Collective.
1986. Duration: 38 mins.
A history of immigration law from 1903 to the present day. The film describes how different groups of immigrants arrived for work in the UK, only to find increasingly restrictive laws which kept them in low-paid, unskilled work and identified them as ‘undesirable’.
The Life and Hard Times of Susie P. Winklepicker
Director: Deborah Hall.
1986. Duration: 35 mins.
A part-dramatised, often humorous documentary showing some of the ways the state and the system have pushed women into economic dependence on men in different historical periods and with various aspects of work and marriage as affected by the law.
Age: 18+
