Abstract
This article considers Jane Arden’s 1972 film The Other Side of The Underneath, a neglected work of British feminist experimental cinema that focused on experimental group therapy. Building upon the theatrical productions of Holocaust, a short-lived feminist group that Arden started in 1970, Arden’s theatrical and cinematic projects from the early 1970s involved both professional actors and untrained participants in a strange admixture of theatre exercises, group therapy, and feminist ritual. Illuminating overlooked cross-currents between the women’s liberation group-work, the anti-psychiatry movement, and the post-1960s avant-garde embrace of amateur modes of aesthetic expression and production, Arden’s work from this period refuses to accede to the tyranny of professionalised expertise – whether of the artist, actor, filmmaker, or psychiatrist.
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