Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[Ceci Moss <ceci_moss AT yahoo.com>]

Passing this along, thought it would be of interest:

Light Industry
 http://www.lightind ustry.org
 
 Tuning a Deaf Ear
 Curated by Peggy Ahwesh
 
 Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 8pm
 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
 Brooklyn, NY
 
 "Where are the transmissions coming from? They're coming from Pittsburgh."
  - Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
 
 A program of transmissions from Pittsburgh featuring small gauge
 oddities, punk documents from the late 1970's, home
 movies, industrial
 films of heavy industry and selections from the George Romero
 nostalgia vault. Playing off a combination of home movies that perform
 celebrity, performance in the punk underground and role playing in the
 silent film, this program presents aural and visual interplays and
 turns the tropes of sensorial convention on its ear: a vampire film by
 deaf children, a punk documentary, sound problems on the Super-8 mag
 track, a silent work print version of a sound film. Featuring a
 variety of films I saw originally while living in Pittsburgh in the
 late 1970's and early 1980's, these works are seared into my memory as
 fantastic microgems of cinematic invention and sublime eccentricity.
 
 Featured in the program:
 
 Miss You, Natalka Voslakov, Super-8, 1979, 3 mins
 Natalka's kids Zoe and Zoltan perform the Rolling Stones classic.
 
 Nosferatu in WPSD,
 Super-8, 1979, 18 mins
 A Super 8mm rendition of the vampire story performed by kids from the
 Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf under the guidance of their
 teacher Tippi Comden.
 
 Debt Begins at 20, Stephanie Beroes, 16mm, 1980, 40 mins
 Part fiction part documentary, with music by The Cardboards, The
 Shakes, Hans Brinker and The Dykes.
 
 The Beach Bunnies at the Electric Banana, Peggy Ahwesh, Super-8, 1980,
 10 mins
 Acting out at the punk club one night.
 
 Ticket Price - $6
 
 About Peggy Ahwesh
 
 Peggy Ahwesh came of age with 1970's feminism, Super-8 film and the
 punk underground. She works in film and video, is on the editorial
 board of Ediciones la Calavera, a book publishing initiative. Ahwesh
 plays music with Barbara Ess in the band Radio/Guitar. She teaches
 film and video production at Bard College.
 
 About Light Industry
 
 Light Industry is a new venue for film and
 electronic art in Brooklyn,
 New York. Developed and overseen by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, the
 project has begun as a series of weekly events at Industry City in
 Sunset Park, each organized by a different artist, critic, or curator.
 Conceptually, Light Industry draws equal inspiration from the long
 history of alternative art spaces in New York as well its storied
 tradition of cinematheques and other intrepid film exhibitors. Through
 a regular program of screenings, performances, and lectures, its goal
 is to explore new models for the presentation of time-based media and
 foster a complex dialogue amongst a wide range of artists and
 audiences within the city.