The Punk Singer Directed by Sini Anderson USA, 2013 There are an abundance of fascinating stories to be told in the new documentary The Punk Singer: the evolution of feminist punk rock in the 1990s, the inspiration that Bikini Kill lead singer Kathleen Hanna created among her fellow musicians as well as young women looking …
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines Directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan USA, 2012 Though its namesake is derived from perhaps the most famous of super-powered fiction females, Wonder Women goes beyond just looking at the development of comic book heroines, examining female role models and revolutionary characters in television and film. In looking at …
Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour Directed by Kerthy Fix 2010, USA, 72 mins. Who Took the Bomp? is as eclectic and hard to pin down as Le Tigre themselves, who have variously been described as electroclash, riot grrrl, and synthpunk. Ostensibly, it is director Kerthy Fix’s coverage of Le Tigre’s 2004 …