"Riddles of the Sphinx" (1977) is a feminist experimental film that was partly inspired by Laura Mulvey's work on feminist film theory of scopophilia and the male gaze, particularly her influential 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". As she wrote that classical Hollywood cinema favoured the male spectator and his desire to gaze at women, Mulvey and Wollen's film is "an attempt to merge modernist forms with a narrative exploring feminism and psychoanalytical theory". As such, the lack of exposition, concentration on the gender politics of domestic life, and the 360-degree pans which move slowly and without focus on the women characters in "Riddles of the Sphinx", represent the antithesis of the cinematic pleasure seen in the dominant cinematic styles of the time.

With a short introduction by Robert Schulte.