Hang on a Minute
A series of 13 one minute films made specifically for television and intended to be shown “in between” programmes, unexpectedly and to be repeated several times during an evening. The films grew out of a series of short poems written by Rhodes reflecting on the traditional patterns of oppression in women’s lives and the many forms that resistance takes, from pornography to nuclear issues, the media to madness. The films gathered in this series are: ‘Tiger Lily’; ‘Washing Up’; ‘Pink Patterns’; ‘Much Madness’; ‘Pornography’; ‘Words and Wealth’; ‘Ironing to Greenham’; ‘Goose or Common’; ‘Swing Song’; ‘Windscale’; ‘No.8 Bus’; ‘White Words’ and ‘Petal for a Paragraph’. They variously employ montage, animation, live action and voice-over, set to music by Lindsay Cooper.
Description compiled in 2026 by Jess Higgins, using the Cinenova paper archive and the Cinenova catalogue (1994) edited by Kate Norrish.
