SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
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ROUGH TRADE
PREVIEW SCREENING + ONLINE Q&A WITH ROUGH TRADE AND EVERYMAN CINEMAS
Date: Wednesday 21 April Time: Film Screening 6.30PM | Q+A 8PM
Host: Kate Hutchinson [Journalist + DJ] Panel: Lisa Rovner [Director] + Laima Leyton [Music Producer]
ABOUT EVENT Rough Trade and Everyman Cinemas present a special preview screening and live online Q+A ahead of the release of Lisa Rovner’s documentary ‘Sisters with Transistors’.
HOST Kate Hutchinson is a freelance journalist, editor, broadcaster and DJ based in London. She is the creator and host of award-winning podcast series The Last Bohemians.
LISA ROVNER Director of Sisters with Transistors, Lisa Rovner is a storyteller whose interests in cultural studies had led her to experience media as an art material, and mass media as a curatorial space. Her art work and films have been presented at the FIAC Art Fair, Art Basel Switzerland, the Paris Film Festival, The Grand Palais in Paris, and featured on websites such as Nowness, Interview Magazine, NYTimes, Artlog, Dazed Digital, Opening Ceremony, and Holiday Magazine, among others. Her writings have appeared in Acne Paper, Wilder Quarterly, Bad Day, Dapper Dan, ANP Quarterly, Holiday Magazine, and many others.
LAIMA LEYTON Rooted in the São Paulo contemporary art scene, Laima Leyton’s credentials in the world of music are firmly established as one half of Mixhell alongside her husband, Iggor Cavalera, and for her work with Soulwax. Her last work, ‘Home’, is a conceptual double album released by DEEWEE in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory that revolves around routine, power, life and death. She has performed her music in people’s homes, creating intimate spaces for audiences to reflect upon themselves. In 2021, Laima will explore opportunities where the audience can experience sound as a reflective and healing tool.
Attend the online Q+A here. Purchase screening tickets below.
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH | 86 MIN
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.
DIRECTOR Lisa Rovner
NARRATED BY Laurie Anderson