Club des Femmes and Spinster Take New Berlin
14 Jan 2011, 23:30
Rio
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Club Des Femmes is a queer-feminist film festival that can be sometimes seen day for night and night for day around London and Berlin. Join us for this exclusive night of music and film dedicated to all spinsters, misfits, malcontents and miss-behaviours.
Club Des Femmes and Spinster link arms in the twilight hours to deliver a double drop of nostalgic, wistful folky-pop and feminist filmmaking. Club des Femmes is proud to honour the best in women’s filmmaking, and tonight we celebrate an exciting new voice in German cinema, Tatjana Turanskyj, with a screening of her film EINE FLEXIBLE FRAU (The Drifter).
Afterwards, join us for a night-cap at Dalston Superstore.
Spinster are: Sadie Lee (vocals and electric ukulele); Em Fitzgerald (bass); classically- trained pianist Kathy Gledhill on keyboards; and Lea Andrews – former front-woman of indie band Spy 51 – on drums and backing vocals. Legendary blogger Joe Pop describes them as ‘like Cockney Rebel and the Shangri-la’s shop- lifting in Biba then going round to the Velvet Underground’s house to raid their parents’ drinks cabinet, before beating up the Partridge Family at the school gates’.
EINE FLEXIBLE FRAU (The Drifter) (2010), dir Tatjana Turanskyj, 97 mins.
German with English subtitles. Berlin. The beginning of the 21st century. A woman under the influence. Greta, an outcast architect, drinks and drifts through the so-called New Berlin. Her journey reveals a city of wastelands and brand new town houses. Torn between the pressure to conform and the spirit of revolution, Greta navigates the modern landscapes of globalised capitalism and post-feminism.
