first movie ever with female character lying on the bed while writing

Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Is as much a celebration of the world as its inspiration, Dziga Vertov's silent masterpiece, "Man With a Movie Camera," celebrates Soviet society. Having written a thrilling 2002 score accompanying screenings of Vertov's monumental film, as well as the British Film Institute's DVD release, Nyman exploits his considerable acquaintance with the work to create a similarly giddy montage with editor Max Pugh, this time shot on video over the past two decades.

Images of a woman lying on a bed appearing to have a sexual fantasy for lack of anything else to do.

A woman fights to free herself from her bed as it swallows her whole.

The story of a woman who goes on strike: in a fit of anarchic revolt she simply decides to stay in bed – and refuses, like some distaff Oblomov, to see to the thousand and one chores that await her.

Lying in bed, she receives a text message from a man she likes. He asks for a photo of her. Dissatisfied with the clichéd shots she takes of herself, she starts a game, pretending to be the illustrious Cindy Sherman, in four photographs from her Untitled Film Stills series.

The story of a young girl's life between the sheets.