Nobody’s Child

Two early films by Yorkshire filmmaker Janey Walklin open up a discussion around social care structures. In So to Speak, Walklin talks with a number of people struggling with loneliness who find solace and community in Leeds’s Ashwood Day Centre. Women’s Refuge examines how Leeds Women’s Aid helps women who have been affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. 

Like Walklin’s films, Viktoras Starosas’s documentary is a patient and tender examination of a school for orphaned and abused children, which focuses as much on the carers working as it does on the children. Finally, Carolyn Lazard’s creative documentary shows how the framework of the United States health system is stacked against disabled people, forcing them to expend superhuman levels of strength to secure the care they need.

Post-screening discussion with Janey Walkin.

Films
So to Speak
Janey Walkin, 1981, UK, 14 mins, 16mm

I Love the Headmistress
Viktoras Starosas, 1978, Lithuania, 29 mins, digital

Get Well Soon
Carolyn Lazard, 2015, USA, 13 mins, digital

Women’s Refuge
Janey Walkin, 1980, UK, 20 mins, digital

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Part of Artists’ Moving Image Network Screening Weekend, Presented by Pavilion
Guest curated by Herb Shellenberger
5–7 July 2019, Leeds

Image: Women’s Refuge, Janey Walklin, 1980