Rock Chicks

If you listen closely, you can recognize the guitar of Memphis Minnie in Chuck Berry and Eric Clapton, the boundless spirit of Sister Rosetta in Jerry Lee Lewis, the growling vocals of Big Mama Thornton in Elvis. Unfortunately, the fact that women rocked the stages since the 1950s has been successfully pushed out of the collective memory. Undeservedly so, as Martina Stocker shows in ‘Rock Chicks’. The German documentary filmmaker spoke with a handful of female rock musicians who all tell their own story. These stories come together in the passion that still drives them and the extra steps they had to take to be taken seriously.

 

 

In ‘Rock Chicks’, Stocker demonstrates that rewriting rock history is necessary. She does this in an almost casual manner, aesthetically loose and cinematographically referencing American road movies. Let this beautiful documentary serve as inspiration to give female rockers the recognition they deserve.

 

Popdocs Every third Monday of the month, Concordia, Metropool, and Muziekbank Enschede program a music film or documentary.