Despite the breakup of her most well known band Bikini Kill
in the late ‘90s, and keeping moderately underground in her music and activism
ever since, Kathleen Hanna continues to exist as a powerful and captivating
facet of the music industry today.
One of the pioneers of the Riot Grrrl movement originating
in the early1990s, Hanna is a punk legend, zinester, and feminist who has spent
much of her career fighting to achieve visibility for female artists and
musicians in a traditionally sexist industry.
She’s also now the focal point of Sini Anderson’s first
feature documentary, The Punk Singer, released
this past March in Austin, Texas at the annual music festival South By
Southwest (SXSW).
The film examines Hanna’s life, paying particular attention
to her role as a feminist icon, a status that she’s achieved as a result of her
groundbreaking music and activism. In an interview
for the film’s SXSW debut, director Sini Anderson discusses how a documentary
about an autonomous, outspoken female is relevant now more than ever,
explaining,
“I felt really strongly that now was the time that
Kathleen needed to tell her story...From before we started production, I
thought, 'Oh no, it’s got to happen right now, it’s got to happen right now.'
And that was before the Slut Walk and before Pussy Riot and before Occupy Wall
Street. You could feel that there was a wave coming, that we’d been in a
political dip...The timing of it was incredibly important.”
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