Street Art Cinemart: Girl Power

Sat. 17 Nov, 2018 at 7:30pm SAST
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A film by Sany, with girl graffiti artists around the globe. 


Directed by: Sany / Documentary / 1hr 32min


Girl Power is a documentary that introduces you to female graffiti writers from fifteen cities around the world – from Prague to Moscow, Cape Town, Sydney, Biel, Madrid, Berlin, Toulouse, through Barcelona, all the way to New York. The graffiti community is predominantly a male world, and these males often share the view that graffiti – namely the illegal kind – is not for females. And yet women graffiti artists have become increasingly more emancipated in recent years; there are female graffiti shows, magazines and websites.


Girl Power captures the stories of women and girls who have succeeded in the male graffiti world. We see them breaking into well-guarded train depots and in their normal “civilian” life. However, Girl Power does more than peer into the microcosm of the graffiti world; it tells the moving story of the Czech writer Sany, who, in 2008, decided to capture the process of female emancipation in graffiti on film and to give other females a chance to express themselves. It took her seven long years to complete this documentary. We follow her life in graffiti, her motivation and her values as they change with the years.


We also meet her family, who are absolutely unaware of Sany’s second life. Sany sacrifices a lot for the film, but even when she’s at the limit of her powers, she refuses to give up on her dream – to make the very first movie depicting women in graffiti. She realised nobody could ever make it from the outside, because outsiders always spell incomprehension and danger for graffiti writers. The film itself does not advocate graffiti, but offers a fresh look at a global phenomenon which in most societies is seen as vandalism.


Graffiti writers usually can’t explain why they create graffiti. This is because graffiti is a form of addiction – a passion, an escape. It gives meaning, like love, religion, desire - the desire to make a mark, the urge to leave something behind.

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The Bioscope Independent Cinema 286 Fox Street
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2001
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