Before Bikini Kill, these women were screaming into the void—and changing everything.
London 1976: Between economic crises and the Silver Jubilee, something is brewing in the squats and basement clubs of West London: Punk. A promise, a new beginning. Punk meant self-empowerment, especially for the women in the scene. For the first time, women picked up guitar, bass and drums, formed bands and wrote their own songs.
Direction
Franz lets the women talk—no male historians explaining their own scene to them.
Editing
Archival footage cuts like a switchblade between Jubilee pomp and squat chaos.
Sound
The Slits, The Raincoats, Siouxsie—raw audio that still shocks the system.
Director
Christine Franz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Christine Franz spent years tracking down footage that male documentarians had literally thrown away as unimportant.
The 'punk girl' archetype was largely erased by the 1990s commodification of riot grrrl—this film reclaims the specific, messy London origin story.
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