We look forward to welcoming you for the second half Katrina del Mar’s two evening screening event of underground, experimental short films, followed by Q&A with the director.
Doors: 7pm
Tickets: £5 - £7 - £10
Please see below for full programme listings for the second evening of Tough Grrrls and Feral Desire: Short Films and Feature Excerpts.
More details on the first night, Tough Grrrls and Feral Desire: The Girl Gang Trilogy here
Katrina will screen a selection of old and new works including early scuzzy No-Wave video experiments I Did It (2002), rock and roll lesbian vampire film A Beautiful Death (2006), episodes of the plotless experimental hangout webseries delMarvelous (2014-15), an excerpt of her upcoming feature doc about her artist/mail carrier father, An Artist Working as a Letter Carrier, and a peek at her upcoming lesbian surf opus Beat Death / Trust in Me, a non-narrative, abstract, punk-dyke surf film and a peek at her upcoming experimental narrative feature I Got This. Other films may include Love (2019), Two Girls One Afternoon (2018), Hide Me (Woman in a Bubble) (2023), Luddite (2020), Super 8mm portraits, screentests (for a feminist revolution movie), and other surprises.
films may include:
Hide Me work (in - progress - HD Video TRT 4 min 2019-2023)
Music Video for Grace Bergere. Girl in the plastic bubble meets the woman who fell to earth.
Luddite (2020 - HD Video - 4:23)
Music Video for Tracy City - Im a luddite, I don’t log on
Love (2019 HD Video TRT 3:26)
Music Video for Tracy City - Love is Overrated)
Two Girls One Afternoon (2019 HD Video - 6 min)
Two sort-of twinning women do makeup, go outside, and make a dude pay them just for looking too long. With Hazel Everett and Jacquline Mary.
An Artist Working as a Letter Carrier Work ( in Progress - 7min - Feature Documentary Film - Hi 8 Video, VHS, 16mm film transferred to HD Video - TRT 75 min)
We’ve all seen the films about the famous artists, the successful artists, but does anyone really look at the so called 'failed artist’? or the struggling artist? An Artist Working as a Letter Carrier reconfigures the bio-documentary genre and redistributes the myth of the artist. -Ulrike Müller
Incarnata Social Club Commercial (HD Video - 30 sec - 2016 - Commercial) - Orlando Estrada and Kembra Pfahler promote a party for antisocial people.
Shirtlifters (Commercial HD Video - 45 sec - 2015)
I Got This (Narrative Feature Film - Work in Progress/excerpt - 7 min)
Kat, a once marginally famous punk rocker, comfortably exists in the chaotic world of the NYC underground, involving herself with colorful, often doomed characters and ex bandmates.
delMarvelous: A Day in the Life Katrina del Mar (HD Video various - 2015-ongoing)
Season One: Get Your Orgone On / A Visit with Grandma / Surfin’ Rockaway / Rockin Out in the Basement (1:22) / Wolfgirl Photoshoot / Future is Now / Retail Dance Therapy / Photoshoot with Angie / The Park Avenue Armory (featuring Betsy Todd) / Fully Loaded
Season Two: Making Pie w Gram / Robotic Roommate / Car Breaks Down / ZINES / Atlantic City / Liquid Eyeliner / New Jersey Pinball / Mary in the Kitchen / Surfin’ w Jo / Grilling in a Blizzard / Moonwalk in a Blizzard
Season Three: Umbrella Man / What Happens in Myrtle Beach / Animals of 14th Street / Mosaic Man / Reading Blood / Piano in an Alleyway / Getting Back into Acting / Tessa Lou Leaves / The Many Faces of Katrina del Mar / Semiplausible Herstory of Katrina del Mar / Singing with Betsy
Filmed Portaits (subtitled as Screen Tests for a Feminist Revolution Movie - HD Video 2016 - ongoing - excerpt 5 min)
Various friends and acquaintances sat for portraits by way of informal conversations on camera, and speak about identity, ideas, feminism, spirituality, otherness. Many of the portraits were made immediately following the 2016 election. With Pamela Sneed, Natalya Sands, Genny Slag, Lauren Robin, Prince Panther, Jack Curious, Cid Scantlebury, Mel Elberg and more.
Super 8mm Film Portraits #1-3 (2013- edited in-camera shot on film with non diagetic sound. TRT 16 min)
Themes of violence, toxic masculinity, desire, glamour and love are explored. Portraits of Simon Chardiet: urban surfer, Eileen Myles: poet, Kara Kolodziej: motorcycle racer.
Heavy Eyeliner Basketball (HD Video - documentary film - 5min - 2009-2016 )
A documentary film about a wild women’s and gnc basketball game that takes place in New York City. Founded by a non athletic artist, who states, ‘the only rule is eyeliner.’
Runaway & Sailor Boy (Video 2010 TRT 13 min in German by the participants in the Queer feminist Trash Film Workshop with Katrina del Mar at the University of the Arts/Hochschule für Künste Bremen in Bremen, Germany)
The Magical Singer, Senya runs away from the circus.
SLAPFIGHT! (Super 8mm film / TRT 1:55 Super 8mm Film / transferred to Video 1997-2010)
Girls slapping! Girls fighting! Girls kissing and making up! Girls revelling in the sheer ridiculousness of it all! This short film by Katrina del Mar pays homage to vintage girlsploitation/bondage films with subtle satire. Starring NYC musician/performer Betsy Todd and renowned artist/conduit of the absurd Michelley QueenofQueens.
Stella B. Zotis (HD Video 4 min 2009 documentary short)
Custom Couture Leather designer Stella Zotis tells us about her work and background.
Bringin’ Me Down (4:07 HD Video Super 8mm 2008 Music Video)
This heartbreak tale channels rage in beautiful rock ballad. Andro rocker Sarah Greenwood (GSX) sings a heart-ripping, angry ballad from the depths. Shot in Iceland and Switzerland, this video has a mysterious elemental feel.
I Got What I Came For (3:30 HD Video - 2007- Music Video -)
Waking up on the right side of every bed, Sarah Greenwood of GSX rocks your world in this DIY polaroid happy music video (Featured on MTVnetworks Logo channel; Top Ten of the Click List & HereTV)
Brooklyn Girls (HD Video - 2:42 - 2008 - Music Video)
All the prettiest girls live in Brooklyn! Breakout Brooklyn Band, Hooray for Goodbye’s sing-along single Brooklyn Girls Featuring the whole gang of Williamsburg hip chicks...riding bikes, shooting craps, playing ice hockey and making out! (Featured on MTV networks Logo channel; Top Ten of the Click List & HereTV)
Too Far (Super 8mm - 3:23 - 2007 - Music Video)
A girl, a guitar, a half stack. Singer/songwriter Sarah Greenwood of GSX shot on super 8 film in glorious gritty black and white.
Downsized (Video - 3:05 - 2005 -Music video for GSX, shot live at CBGB’s)
A Beautiful Death Video (6:05 - 2006)
Called “radical” and “groundbreaking” by Nan Goldin, this lesbian vampire film features an unusual feeding frenzy and vampires playing rock ‘n’ roll and board games.
Punchin’ & Cussin’ (Super 8mm - Video - 8 min -2006)
Burlesque wrestlers & butch/femme lesbians making out and cussing in several languages whilst playing the drums, wrestling, and boxing! Rockin’ soundtrack by Texas Terri and Cherie Currie.
Nothin’ Pretty (2003 -Super 8mm Film - Video - 5:45 - short film)
Shot over the beautifully dreary skies of Brooklyn, this 4 minute film makes suffering visible in its gritty depiction of pain and loss through scraping concrete, crumbling facades, broken glass and dripping paint. “There’s nothin pretty in my world,” sings Karen Curious, the fiery frontwoman of New Professionals.
Just Do It Video (9 min - 2003)
Narrative short film Nicolette Nolan, Heather Litteer (Jessica Rabbit) and Otter star as sex workers who get drunk and plot a murder.