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Sounds on Screen: Sapphic Cinema

05.08.24

Florence Scott-Anderton takes look at the sonics of lesbian cinema - from the butch to the femme found through the sounds of pioneering lesbian art filmmakers such as Barbara Hammer, Sadie Benning and Cecilia Dougherty, desert cowgirl yearnings, dated BBC library archive documentaries, unseen UK 70s cinema, direct to TV of the trash variety, 90s favourites and important contemporary touchstones such as Leilah Weinraub’s Shakedown.

Tracklist

  • Excerpt
    Heavenly Creatures (Edit)
  • Opening
    Shudder To Think, High Art (Dir. Lisa Cholodenko, 1998)
  • Excerpt
    Superdyke Meets Madame X
  • Excerpt
    The Incredibly True Adventure Of Two Girls In Love (Edit)
  • Wallpaper
    Thomas Newman, Fried Green Tomatoes (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    Gay Tape: Butch And Femme (Edit)
  • I Want
    Dayna Manning, Better Than Chocolate (Dir. Anne Wheeler, 1995)
  • Overture
    K.D Lang, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Dir. Gus Van Sant, 1993)
  • Excerpt
    Dry Kisses Only (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    Rosebud (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    It Wasn't Love (Edit) (Dir Sadie Benning, 1992)
  • Mona And Tamsin On A Rock
    Will Gregory And Alison Goldfrapp, My Summer Of Love (Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, 2004)
  • Space
    Butthole Surfers, Boys Don't Cry (Dir. Kimberly Peirce, 1999)
  • Excerpt
    Man Alive, Consenting Adults 2: The Women (Edit)
  • Moments In Passion
    Michael Allen Harrison, Claire Of The Moon (Dir. Nicole Conn, 1992)
  • Main Title
    Jerry Goldsmith, Basic Instinct (Dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
  • Squeezebox Days
    The Murmurs, All Over Me (Dir. Alex Sichel, 1997)
  • Leavin' On Your Mind
    Patsy Cline, Desert Hearts (Dir. Donna Deitch, 1985)
  • Excerpt
    Carol (Edit)
  • Claire’s Fantasy
    Michael Allen Harrison, Claire Of The Moon (Dir. Nicole Conn, 1992)
  • That’s Fat
    Shudder To Think, High Art (Dir. Lisa Cholodenko, 1998)
  • Bif Naked 
    My Whole Life
  • Excerpt
    Better Than Chocolate (Dir. Anne Wheeler, 1995), Better Than Chocolate (Dir. Anne Wheeler, 1995)
  • No Need To Argue
    The Cranberries, Butterfly Kiss (Dir. Michael Winterbottom, 1995)
  • Excerpt
    No No Nooky TV (Edit)
  • She Gives Tone
    Shudder To Think, High Art (Dir. Lisa Cholodenko, 1998)
  • Stay
    Shakespeare's Sister, Butterfly Kiss (Dir. Michael Winterbottom, 1995)
  • Excerpt
    D.E.B.S. (Spy Girls
  • Ferris Wheel (Love Theme)
    BT, Monster (Dir. Patty Jenkins, 2003)
  • Excerpt
    If Every Girl Had A Diary (Edit)
  • The Snow
    Coil, The Living End (Dir. Greg Araki, 1992)
  • Excerpt
    Shakedown (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    Scrubbers (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    The Watermelon Woman (Edit)
  • Elephant Woman
    Blonde Redhead, My Summer Of Love (Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, 2004)
  • Excerpt
    Saving Face (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    Gay Tape: Butch And Femme (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    Gia (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    Bound (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    Wild Side (Edit)
  • Excerpt Go Fish (Edit)
    Go Fish (Dir. Rose Troche, 1994)
  • Excerpt Loving Annabelle (Edit)
    Loving Annabelle (Dir. Katherine Brooks, 2006)
  • Excerpt Lost And Delirious (Edit)
    Lost And Delirious (Dir. Léa Pool, 2001)
  • Excerpt Lesbians (Gay Life) (Edit)
    Lesbians (Gay Life) (Dir. Judy Jackson, 1981)
  • Excerpt
    Shakedown (Edit)
  • We’re In The City
    Saint Etienne, But I’m A Cheerleader (Dir. Jamie Babbit, 1999)