She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column + Frenzy Screening at Northside Festival

A night of Riot Grrrl band cinema presented by MIX NYC!!

Perfect if you missed these amazing films at the MIX Festival in November, or if you want to see them again, we know we do!

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She Said Boom: The Story of the Fifth Column

Starring GB Jones, Kathleen Hanna, Bruce La Bruce, Vaginal Davis, Caroline Azar & Beverly Breckenridge

Directed by Kevin Hegge

64 min/2012/Canada/English

Forerunners of Queercore and Riot Grrrl, Toronto’s preeminent feminist art-punk combo Fifth Column gets the tribute it has long deserved. Kevin Hegge’s doc also doubles as a fascinating time capsule of the city’s vibrant alternative culture of the 1980s and early 1990s. Hegge uses an abundance of film, video, and print material to powerfully evoke their Toronto, before the queercore ethos that Fifth Column and pal Bruce LaBruce cooked up wended its way into the lives and minds of misfits far from Queen Street And though Hegge doesn’t quite untangle the band’s very messy history, he captures the equally unruly energies that made Fifth Column matter.

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Frenzy

Directed by Jill Reiter

11 min/1993/USA/English

A visual proclamation of promiscuity, a “queer grrrl” thrash band plays with wild abandon while audience members first tear off their own clothes and then start grabbing the grrrls in the band, kissing them, and trying to pull them away from their instruments.

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Presented at Northside Festival

http://northsidefestival.com/

Tickets ($10): http://northsidefestival.com/751-2/

OR, get a Northside Film Badge and see all the Northside film screenings ($35) here: http://northside2013.eventbrite.com/

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MIX NYC thanks the generous support of DCA, NYSCA, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Material for the Arts