What She Wants

A woman travelling on the underground is bedevilled with images of desire. What She Wants wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film about sex and shopping, the social deployment of sexuality, and capitalism in detumesence.

Ruth Lingford is a London-born filmmaker and animator. Her films include themes of women’s perspectives, sexuality, and how they tie into aspects of society such as war, violence, and capitalism. Some of her works bring unique perspectives of established writing or lore; for example, Pleasures of War brings eroticism into the Biblical Book of Judith. Others, such as What She Wants elaborates upon Foucauldian theory of sexuality. Lingford’s films portray human sexuality as ever-present in all aspects of life, as well as the complicated relationship women in particular have with sexuality, and society by extension. As an animator, Lingford represents a less popular medium than traditional film, and visually has a unique outlook and direction.