Project Detail

Typical Girls

Synopsis

The Slits travelled and toured widely as a group. Accompanying them during 1980 and 1981, Christine Robertson filmed intermittently on Super-8, collected whilst managing The Slits. Typical Girls was completed after the group split up in 1982. Filmed on stage in Berlin and Italy and off stage in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, the film gives an experimental flavour of the unconventional lifestyle the group lived and the unique music that came out of it.

Details

Year: 2004
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins 27 secs
Format: Beta SP
Director: Christine Robertson
Producer: Christine Robertson
Editor: Christine Robertson, Helen Sear
Director of Photography: Christine Robertson
Sound: Mix by Duncan Bridgeman, Christine Robertson
Composer: The Slits
Principal cast: The Slits, The Carpets

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Basement Flat

41B Kingsgate Road
London NW6 4TD, UK

T+44 (0)20 7625 6905

christine@bluegene.org.uk

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