REBEL DYKES - Cineffable 2022

Harri SHANAHAN

Harri Shanahan is an artist, filmmaker and animator from Manchester. She studied filmmaking at university but before Rebel Dykes, she mostly made post punk/experimental music videos and artist moving images. Harri began teaching herself to animate because of the narrative needs of Rebel Dykes and fell in love with the art form. In 2019 she gained a Masters degree in animation and now create animation for the education sector. Harri Shanahan wanted to tell the story of the Rebel Dykes because she felt a kinship with their punk rebelliousness and their DIY approach to art and culture (having fronted her own feminist queer postpunk group ILL for some years). For Harri, it has been an amazing experience to meet these amazing, trailblazing, kickass people and to have the opportunity to be part of telling their story.

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Siân A. WILLIAMS

Siân A. Williams is a filmmaker and professional archivist based in Manchester, UK. For this project they used with Harri creative recreation sequences, animation and unseen personal archive to bring the ephemeral queer histories of 1980s dyke subcultures to life. Siân trained in photography and artist moving image at University of Wales and have also gained masters in critical theory and digital heritage, informing both her practice and archives career. She have over a decade of experience working in audio visual preservation and archive post-production, working at the BFI National Archive and Archives+ Manchester. Siân wanted to make the film because she has always felt a connection to the ethos of the rebel dykes. Their art and music was a formative influence when she was playing in DIY post-punk bands, and she was especially excited by the Rebel Dyke photographers that play with gender and identity and documented queer communities.

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October 20 to 23, 2022

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