The invention provides a liquid crystal displays using a ferroelectric
liquid crystal, which can give mono-domain alignment of ferroelectrical
liquid crystal without forming orientation defects and which is so
remarkably good in orientation stability that the orientation thereof can
be maintained even if the temperature of the liquid crystal is raised to
the phase transition point or higher.The invention provides liquid
crystal displays comprising a ferroelectric liquid crystal sandwiched
between two substrates, wherein an electrode and a photo alignment film
are each successively formed, the first of which is a photoreactive
material which generates photoreaction to give anisotropy to the photo
alignment film, and the constituent material of the second film is an
optically isomerizable material comprising an optically
isomerization-reactive compound.