# animate! › Films › What She Wants by Ruth Lingford

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, computer animation, amiga animation, sexuality, desire, consumerism, capitalism, experimental short film, filmmaker, animator

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**What She Wants** a film by Ruth Lingford

1994, 5 min

![What She Wants, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/whatshewants02.jpg)

### a film by Ruth Lingford

### animate! synopsis

Lust is in the air, everywhere I look around… Sex and shopping, underground thoughts on the underground train, and everywhere capital trying to keep (it) up with desire. Amiga anger about the limits of attraction.

### key credits

**director**
Ruth Lingford

**editor**
James Gormley

**music**
Lol Coxhill

**What She Wants** film, stills and other materials © Ruth Lingford 1994