Girls will be Girls
Film, 2019
Girls will be Girls, an experimental documentary film, explores female stereotypes through the retelling of girlhood stories. In the film, four mature women, discuss their expectations and behaviours of girls growing into womanhood in Great Britain, looking at how they should act, speak, dress, and conduct themselves. Using archival footage and oral histories, the film playfully explores the pressures to conform to certain behaviours and beliefs, discussing appearance, school, friendships, relationships with boys, family, and career opportunities. Clips were sourced from a range of archival footage at the East Anglian Film Archive and juxtaposed with the spoken audio.
The film was originally created for the 2019 East Anglian Film Archive mash-up competition under the theme Discovery. The film screened at the FaB Festival, Margate Film Festival and SVOX.TV Film and Video Arts channel.
