REBEL DYKES (K18) – Kino Caisa: March Through the Frame

WOMEN’S STORIES THROUGH DOCUMENTARY CINEMA

Emotional, weird, too sensitive, too much… Women who don’t follow normative scripts often pay a price for not conforming.

MARCH THROUGH THE FRAME is a four-week programme of documentaries where these women are centred as narrators in their own right. Drawing on personal and community archives, each Tuesday we celebrate the joy and strength in our collective refusals and journeys of self-discovery.

REBEL DYKES arrives in all its ass-kicking, leather-wearing glory. The film follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and went on to become artists, performers, musicians and activists in London.

A heady mash-up of animation, archive footage and interviews tells the story of a radical scene: squatters, BDSM nightclubs, anti-Thatcher rallies, protests demanding action around AIDS and the fierce ties of chosen family. This is an extraordinarily privileged glimpse into a bygone world by those who not only lived out their politics with heartfelt conviction but lived to tell the tale.

English subtitles included. Duration 92 minutes.
Age limit 18.

The programme is curated by Adalmiina Erkkola, a cultural producer interested in the political potential of film. They also host the No Man’s Land radio show at IDA Helsinki.