June Screenings

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS

• Director: Lisa Rovner
• UK / 2020 / DCP / Colour and B&W / 86’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Director of Photography: Bill Kirstein
• Editing: Michael Aaglund, Kara Blake, Mariko Montpetit
• Narrator: Laurie Anderson
• Producer: Anna Vaney, Marcus Werner Hed
• Production Co.: Anna Lena Films
• World Sales: Modern Films

This film is screened within the Documentary Time section.

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2020 CPH:DOX Next Wave Award

”A vital historical corrective,” Sisters with Transistors is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel. The history of women has been a history of silence. Music is no exception. Sisters with Transistors is more than just the history of a music genre: it’s the story of how we hear and the critical but little-known role female pioneers play in that story.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.