Rebel Dykes Film Screening

Let's fight this harrowing seasonal depression together! What better way to do that than to watch the legendary Rebel Dykes?

The Rebel Dyke movement did so much for us, and we have to learn about them so we can show them the respect they deserve. This documentary looks back and helps us see why life is how it is for us in London today. 

Know your roots! Put on ya boots! And come down to Avalon cafe this Sunday 8th Jan. 

We will start the night with ‘Space Dykes and Other Adventures’ by Julian Konuk. Julian Konuk is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and experimental writer based in London. His practice as of late mostly has mostly centered around finding new ways of archiving queerness that do not directly stem from the alleged Western colonialist historicity. This tends to manifest itself through experimental, chaotic writing pieces lamenting on queer pasts of glitter and cabaret, zines foraying into queer futurities seen through ridiculous (redykeculous?) fonts in lime green, and short films recording short-lived epochs of queer utopias.

Doors

Doors will open at 5 pm, and the screenings will start at 6 pm. The bar will be open, so you can grab a drink if you want. There also will be pizza 🍕. 

Tickets

We will be selling tickets at the door - but bring cash or PayPal and don't flake! Or get one in advance so we don't panic that no one will come! Also, there are limited seats, so buying in advance is better for you and us!

If you are an Allie, please buy an Allie ticket. If you have a good income, please buy a donation ticket. Any profits we make will be donated to a top surgery fund. 

We want the screenings to be accessible to everyone, so if you can't afford a ticket please email us and we can make an arrangement. 

masc.city.screenings@gmail.com

Accessibility: Please note, there is sadly not a wheelchair-accessible entrance as there is a small step as you enter the cafe. 

5 pm 

Doors 

6 pm 

Space Dykes and Other Adventures 

SHORT FILM| ENGLISH |           11 MINS

Dir. Julian Konuk

This film explores a science-fictionalised exploration into dykiness; a queer movement and bodily abjection in regards to searching for modes of home and unhome-liness not based upon patrilineal spatialities of biological kinship. This has taken the form of a moving image work that “functions” as a sort of container, or maybe a digitised and chaotic sonic and video collage in which I have been particularly focusing on the specifics of transition (pun intended); the harsh cut or fluid, pixelated merging of various clips. This has culminated in a piece of work that fluctuates between fast and slow movements and methodologies of queer intimacy and lamentations of this idea of the home in relation to the queer body and vice versa.
 

6:30 pm

Rebel Dykes 

DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH |           92 MINS
Dir. Harri Shanahan and Siân A. Williams
Produced by Siobhan Fahey

REBEL DYKES is a rabble-rousing documentary set in 1980s post-punk London. 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 arrives in all its ass-kicking, leather-wearing glory. The film follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and went on to become artists, performers, musicians and activists in London.

A heady mash-up of animation, archive footage and 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 family. This is an extraordinarily privileged glimpse into a bygone world by those who not only lived out their politics with heartfelt conviction but lived to tell the tale.' - JAY BERNARD, Programmer, BFI Flare 2021