london, curse you and your rad events

Sometimes I wish I lived in London (but only when rad things are happening... I could never live there day to day and keep my sanity!!)

These events look so rad that I could vomit with jealousy!!..


Gang Girl Film Trilogy / UK Premiere of Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever
LONDON FILM PREMIERE: Hell On Wheels Gang Girls Forever!! plus Gang Girls 2000 and SURF GANG
Directed by Katrina del Mar

New York City filmmaker, photographer and artist, Katrina del Mar, described in the press alternately as “the Lesbian Russ Meyer” and “the lesbian Kenneth Anger” will premiere to the UK her newest girl gang movie, Hell on Wheels; Gang Girls Forever which will wind up her award-winning cult classic trilogy of Girl Gang Films including SURF GANG and Gang Girls 2000. All 3 films will be screened at the Horse Hospital in London September 18th, 2010. Katrina and some of her wild-women cast members will be on-hand for the screening and a Q&A after the films.

Films presented include the latest and greatest Hell on Wheels; Gang Girls Forever!! (Winner, Award of Merit, Accolade Film Competition) The girl gang movie that winds up the cult classic trilogy! Burning up the dirty streets and blazing down the pavement, everything is all wheels all the time. SURF GANG (Awarded Best Experimental Film, Planet Out Short Movie Awards and the NYFA Fellowship in Video) Two sisters are orphaned by drunks and are left to fend for themselves. One of them disappears into the sea, and the other forms a gang, The Rockaway Ruffnecks, New York City surfers. Gang Girls 2000 (which received a 4 1/2 star review from Film Threat Magazine, first screened in the UK at the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival). When a legendary Brooklyn gang, the Sluts, invade their turf, the Lower East Side Glitter Girls are hell-bent for revenge. But a clandestine visit to Chinatown for supplies runs them afoul of the Blades. Next thing they know, things escalate into an all-out rumble at Coney Island!

Pre screening Reception @ 7 pm. Q&A with director immediately following films

Afterparty is presented by Storm in a Teacup London and will be held at the Horse Hospital

£5 (free if you’ve been at the screening)

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and, starting tonight - with a screening including a Q&A with Vivienne Dick and Nan Goldin, and a performance by Lydia Lunch - comes:

Vivienne Dick
Films
Friday 10 September – Tuesday 14 September 2010

Irish filmmaker Vivienne Dick moved to New York in 1975 and became a key figure of the 'No Wave' movement, a time of collaborative countercultural production by a loose collective of people including Nan Goldin, Lydia Lunch, James Nares, Beth and Scott B, Arto Lindsay and many others.

Shot on Super-8, 16mm and video, Dick's work is marked by an interest in individual transgression, urban street life, kitsch and pop culture. Multilayered and open-ended, the work is framed from a female perspective, with an overriding concern for social conditioning and sexual politics.