Cinenova

On 16 April, Rachel Garfield presents a curated selection of experimental feminist films at The Showroom Gallery, including She Wanted Green Lawns (d. Sarah Turner, 1989) from the Cinenova Collection.

In her book Experimental Filmmaking and Punk, Garfield explores rebellious, feminist Punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s tracing its roots and its legacies. Just as punk created a space for bands such as The Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity through a transgressive, strident new female identity, it also provoked experimental feminist filmmakers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of filmmaking.

The films in this screening were part of a rebellious, feminist punk audiovisual culture. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Ruth Novaczek, Anne Robinson, Sarah Turner, and Jill Westwood (all of whom will be screened) offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new punk audiovisual aesthetic.

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