We are proud to host Katrina Del Mar for the first time since her sold out screening of The Girl Gang Trilogy in 2010. Join us for Tough Grrrls and Feral Desire: two nights of screenings followed by a Q&A with the director. The first evening will feature a screening of the Trilogy and much more!
Doors: 7pm
Tickets: £5 - £7 - £10
Please see below for full programme listings for the first night of Tough Grrrls and Feral Desire: The Girl Gang Trilogy.
More details on the second night, Tough Grrrls and Feral Desire: Short Films and Feature Excerpts here.
The Horse Hospital is proud to welcome back Katrina Del Mar for a screening of the Girl Gang Trilogy in 2010.
“Katrina Del Mar has been active in underground film, photography and erotic fiction for two decades, and her vision is as transcendent as it is transgressive.”
– Carlo McCormick, Photograph Magazine
“Filmmaker and photographer Katrina del Mar has been documenting the streetwise tough-girls of Manhattan and Brooklyn for going on twenty-five years. Her unheralded butch opus the GANG GIRL TRILOGY imagines the city as an escapist playground free of men, where rival gangs of lesbian bikers, boarders, surfers and skaters call the shots. Del Mar draws from Russ Meyer and John Waters, but with a commitment to a distinctly personal sort of chaos. The films also unconsciously acts as a showcase for a rapidly changing Manhattan — an attempt to abscond from the concerns of the city and into a daydream of queer solidarity, leather, and raucous, wall-to-wall punk soundtracks.”
- Spectacle Theater
In addition the program will feature dyke rock music videos, rock and roll lesbian vampires, episodes of her plotless experimental hangout webseries delMarvelous, an excerpt from her upcoming feature doc about her artist/mail carrier father, scuzzy No-Wave video experiments, super 8mm portraits, screentests (for a feminist revolution movie), surf films, and other surprises.
Gang Girls 2000 (Super 8mm film color / BW TRT 27 minutes, 1999)
The Glitter Girls, an upstart gang of bike riding cuties run into a little trouble when they cross not only the Sluts of Brooklyn but also the famous Blades of Chinatown. The Rumble is set for Coney Island. How will it all go down?
“powerful - a genius movie” 4 1/2 star review, Film Threat Magazine.
SURF GANG (Super8mm / Video 25 min, 2005)
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. They run afoul of a local mob boss, and go on a violent odyssey intermittently giving way to fantasy surf sessions. Awarded Best Experimental Film, Planet Out Short Movie Awards and the NYFA Fellowship in Video.
HELL ON WHEELS GANG GIRLS FOREVER! (HD Video / Super 8mm 30 min, 2010.)
Brooklyn girl gang member Krank, after being shot in a mysterious guinea pig lab rescue incident, comes home from the hospital in a wheelchair to find her cats are gone, her mother is still insane and her gang is kicking her out. She turns to her best friend, The Mechanic, who offers to turn her heap of crap wheelchair into a hot rod. Krank then joins The Outcasts, NYCgirl gang wheel riders with a twist. The Outcasts are lead by Krash, a dyslexic cyclist who can only cycle backwards. Meanwhile, The E. V. Ills, a violent roller derby gang, tear up the track and dance the night away; The Slayers, homeless queer girl skateboarders panhandle and fish for crabs in New York City’s East River; and The Full Tilts ride scooters and run numbers in the NYC’s only Roller Disco Betting Parlor.