Dir. Harri Shanahan and Siân A. Williams
2021 | 90 mins | UK

SHOWING TIMES:

• Sat 11 Dec: 2pm (Caption Subtitled)
• Sun 12 Dec: 4.20pm
• Wed 15 Dec: 6pm

Rebel Dykes is a rabble-rousing documentary set in 1980s post-punk London, UK. The unheard story of a community of dykes who met doing art, music, politics and sex, and how they went on to change their world.

Rebel Dykes follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and became artists, performers, musicians and activists in London. A hot, heady, punky, sexy mash-up of animation, previously unseen rare archive footage and new 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 families.”

Saturday 11 December is a special Reclaim The Frame screening which includes a pre-recorded, post screening discussion hosted by Birds’ Eye View director Melanie Iredale with directors Harri Shanahan & Siân A. Williams, producer Siobhan Fahey, composer/music supervisor Ellyott and film contributor & club promoter Yvonne Taylor.

The mission of Reclaim the Frame is to re-tell the story of cinema by drawing ever greater audiences to films by women & non-binary creatives, re-claiming cinema as a truer reflection of the world we live in. To learn more and join the #ReclaimTheFrame mission and receive free cinema tickets, discount codes and other film goodies go to Bit.ly/BEVRTF.

Reclaim The Frame is run by charity Birds’ Eye View, and backed by the BFI’s Audience Fund.

RECLAIM THE FRAME

All screenings of Rebel Dykes are presented in collaboration with Reclaim The Frame – a mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women to widen and enrich cinema’s perspective of the world, run by charity Birds’ Eye View, and backed by the BFI’s Audience Fund. Visit the website to learn more and join the #ReclaimTheFrame mission and to receive free cinema tickets, discount codes and other film goodies.

TRIPLE F-RATED:

Directed by a woman, written by a woman and starring a significant woman.

F-Rating is a new rating for films directed by women, written by women and/or with significant female characters on screen, in their own right. Find out more here >>

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

*Subject to a £1.50 ticketing system charge. We don’t charge this to make a profit. Find out more