FILM 1318: THE PUNK SINGER
The Punk Singer is a 2013 documentary film directed
by filmmaker Sini Anderson and produced
by Anderson and Tamra Davis.
The film is about feminist
singer Kathleen
Hanna who fronted the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, and who was a
central figure in the riot grrrl
movement. The title of the film is taken from Julie Ruin song "The
Punk Singer", from Hanna's 1998 solo effort. Using a combination of
interviews and archival footage including live band performances, the film
traces the life and career of Hanna from her troubled upbringing and her start
in spoken word performance
poetry, through her riot grrrl zines,
her prominent punk and dance-punk bands, her coining of the phrase "Smells Like
Teen Spirit" for Kurt Cobain, her solo
career as Julie Ruin,
her feminist activism, her marriage to Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz, and ending
with Hanna's 2010 diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease and the
severe treatments she endures to combat it.
(Wikipedia)
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