We'll kick off the AWL_ 2022 series with an irresistible documentary fresh off the festival circuit, taking place during a pivotal ten-year period in London and UK history: 1981-1991.
Rebel Dykes follows a tight-knit group of friends who met around 1982 at Greenham Common peace camp, established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. They bonded and went on to become artists, performers, musicians and activists in London. Pressured by Margaret Thatcher's repressive policies, they developed modes of activism and solidarity that were unprecedented in lgbtqi+ communities at the time.
REBEL DYKES by Harri Shanahan + Siân A. Williams, 2021, UK, 92 mins, English w/ English subtitles
The film is a refreshingly raw mash-up of animation, archive footage and interviews, conceived by Harri Shanahan and Siân A. Williams. It offers an intimate look at a radical scene: squatters, BDSM nightclubs, ACT-UP activists and the close ties of chosen families. It is a testimony to a vanished world, told by people who not only expressed their political views with conviction, but also recount them in the most compelling way.
AWL_045 REBEL DYKES
16 February 2022
start program: 20:30h
pre sale tickets: WORM SOLD OUT
Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam