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-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film
makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes
of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in
exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the
1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their
performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick,
Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie
Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful,
deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity,
creating a new "punk audio visual aesthetic".
A vital aspect of
our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues,
can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist
pioneers, who like their musical contemporaries worked in a pre-digital,
analogue modality that nevertheless influenced the emergent digital
audio visual culture of the 1990s and 2000s.
Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s - Rachel Garfield
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