If you were depressed last September when New York City filmmaker, photographer and artist, Katrina del Mar, described in the press alternately as "the Lesbian Russ Meyer" and "the lesbian Kenneth Anger", had to pull her exploitation/action/chick film Hell on Wheels: Gang Girls Forever from the premiere screening, we have good news for you!
Hell on Wheels: Gang Girls Forever, which will wind up her award-winning cult classic trilogy of Girl Gang Films, will be screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City July 1st 2010. Katrina and her wild-women cast members will be on-hand for the screening and a Q & A after the films...
http://ganggirlsforever.com
Hell on Wheels: Gang Girls Forever is the culminating film in a trilogy of gang girl movies started ten years ago, with Gang Girls 2000 and in 2005, SURF GANG. They are three experimental, narrative, queer, underground films and almost mythical themes while also being firmly planted in a comic, B-Movie, D.I.Y. punk-rock ethos. Here is a link to a full page story in Time Out NY about "Hell on Wheels; Gang Girls Forever!"; it includes an exclusive video clip from the film.
Hell On Wheels: Gang Girls Forever
plus Gang Girls 2000 and SURF GANG
Directed by Katrina del Mar
Thursday July 1st 2010
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, NYC 10003
Telephone: (212) 505-5181
One screening: 8pm – 10pm
$12 June 3, 2010
Tickets are available via the official Gang Girls Forever Website www.ganggirlsforever.com/screenings.html
Synopsis: Brooklyn girl gang member Krank, after being shot in a mysterious guinea pig lab rescue incident, comes home from the hospital in a wheelchair to find her cats are gone, her mother is still insane and her gang is kicking her out. She turns to her best friend, the Mechanic, who gives her a pep talk and offers to turn her heap of crap wheelchair into a hot rod. Krank then joins the Outcasts, NYC girl gang wheel riders with a twist. The Outcasts are lead by Krash, a dyslexic cyclist who can only cycle backwards. The other girls in the gang have strange maladies such as Height Dysphoria and French Monotonism. Sparks fly between Krank and the upside-down skateboarder, Flip and clearly, Krank is ready to ride again. Meanwhile, the E. V. Ills, a violent roller derby gang led by C-Roll, tear up the track and dance the night away; the Slayers, homeless queer girl skateboarders panhandle and fish for crabs in New York City's East River; and the Full Tilts ride scooters and run numbers in the city's only Roller Disco Betting Parlor.
