Event

IT CHANGED MY LIFE

Dir. Lucy Thane, 1993.
UK. 25 mins. + 90mins of additional footage

With unlimited access and uncanny instincts, filmmaker Lucy Thane chronicled Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear's 1993 UK tour/media circus with a stockpile of borrowed film equipment. Capturing around twenty-four hours worth of candid interviews, concert footage, and heated discussions with fans in venue bathrooms, Thane artfully distilled the footage into a twenty-five minute film that encapsulates the international breadth and fiery division of the Riot Grrrl movement. The raw tapes from which the final product was culled are equally rich historical documents featuring appearances by Courtney Love, Catcall Records' Liz Naylor, and The Raincoats, among others. Spectacle is pleased to premiere a selection of footage from these rushes - recently digitized by the Fales Collection at NYU - along with the film.