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SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS

Year 2020
Runtime 86 mins
Language English
Alberta Premiere
Availability
  • Online & In-Cinema

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

With the wider social, political and cultural context of the 20th century as its backdrop, this fascinating, completely archival documentary reveals a unique emancipation struggle, restoring the central role of women in the history of music and society at large.

Countries

United Kingdom
Festivals
CPH:DOX 2020, Melbourne International Film Festival 2021
Director
Lisa Rovner
Executive Producer
Ashleigh Arrell
Producer
Anna Lena Vaney
Cinematographer
Eponine Momenceau, William Kirstein, Larkin Donley
Cast
Wendy Carlos, Laurie Anderson, Delia Derbyshire, Laurie Spiegel, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros