Rock Chicks

If you listen closely, you'll recognize Memphis Minnie's guitar on Chuck Berry and Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta's unbridled spirit on Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Mama Thornton's growling vocals on Elvis. But the fact that women were rocking the stages as early as the 1950s has been successfully suppressed from the collective memory. High time to pull out the roots and tell the real story. The pioneering work of these female artists and the significance of names like Suzi Quatro, Kathy Valentine and Kristin Hersh in rock are illuminated in the highly composed, elaborate documentary "Rock Chicks," which is essentially about the fulfillment of one's dreams and the struggle against social resistance.

Keywords

  • Creatives: Make Music!
  • Doing Gender
  • déjà-vu FILM
  • Gender
  • Made in Germany
  • Pioneers
  • history
  • lifestyle
  • rock
  • women

Actors

  • Suzi Quatro
  • Kathy Valentine
  • Kristin Hersh
  • Rosie Flores
  • Linda Gail

Director

  • Marita Stocker

Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater


1h 18min


16+

EN


DE

Germany
2023
Women have been an integral part of rock music from the beginning, but have been successfully repressed from the collective memory.

Women have been an integral part of rock music from the beginning, but have been successfully repressed from the collective memory.


If you listen closely, you'll recognize Memphis Minnie's guitar on Chuck Berry and Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta's unbridled spirit on Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Mama Thornton's growling vocals on Elvis. But the fact that women were rocking the stages as early as the 1950s has been successfully suppressed from the collective memory. High time to pull out the roots and tell the real story.


The pioneering work of these female artists and the significance of names like Suzi Quatro, Kathy Valentine and Kristin Hersh in rock are illuminated in the highly composed, elaborate documentary "Rock Chicks," which is essentially about the fulfillment of one's dreams and the struggle against social resistance.

Cast & Crew