She's Real Worse than Queer
A video-film-music documentary by and about dykes beginning to find culture/lives they can stand through punk rock, begun in London by queers who couldn’t afford and were too affected by the world at large to be “gay”. The word “punk” originated as a kind of abuse against gay people in prison and has been reclaimed and positively redefined in a similar way as the term “queer”. 1970s punk was queerer and more racially diverse than the straight white male phenomenon it is remembered as and D.I.Y (Do It Yourself), a central philosophy as much originated out of necessity as aesthetic. Women, especially dykes, have been central to the creative and political phenomenon sometimes known as Queerpunk.
Concerts are recorded as focus and meeting points but the equal importance of related activities is made clear: bands practicing, touring, recording, their day jobs; who are the audiences? and who puts on the shows?; hanging out, tattooing and skateboarding; film, video, zine and magazine making; photography, spoken word, martial arts and self defence demonstrations; record labels and recording studios, waitressing and construction work. With few resources and role models, and often difficult personal histories, how do we learn to express ourselves and represent our lives? And pay the rent? ‘She’s Real…’ is about finding culture, making it up maybe; about survival and moving beyond that. Thriving.
Description source: Cinenova paper archive
