GIRL POWER

In the organizer's words:

RAP FATALE, GRAFFITI-FREIBURG and the kulturaggregat are showing GIRL POWER as part of the SISTERHOOD exhibition on March 2

GIRL POWER is a documentary film that focuses on female graffiti artists from fifteen cities - from Prague to Moscow, Cape Town, Sydney, Biel, Madrid, Berlin, Toulouse, Barcelona and New York. The graffiti community is predominantly a man's world. And yet female graffiti artists have become increasingly emancipated in recent years; (young) women and girls are active in many places, on the streets, in their own crews and at jams. And it is precisely these stories that the film captures.

However, GIRL POWER wants to and can do more than illuminate the microcosm of the graffiti world; the film also tells the moving story of the Czech writer Sany, who decided in 2008 to capture the process of female emancipation in graffiti on film in order to give other women the opportunity to express themselves. It took her seven long years to complete this documentary. With her own film, she also accompanied herself and her life as a graffiti writer as well as a director and camerawoman; with all the challenges that this mission inevitably entails.

Sany's family knows nothing about her "second life". And yet she invests a lot, she gives everything for her film; even when her strength wanes, she refuses to give up her dream - to make the very first film portraying women in graffiti. She was and is convinced that the phenomenon of graffiti cannot be explained from the 'outside'; the 'scene' has to look at itself and reflect its own perspective.

"GIRL POWER showed me for the first time what strength some women have. For me as a person with no connection to the graffiti world, it was a fascinating look behind the scenes. Our film is not only a documentary map of a human obsession, but above all the story of how far you can go in realizing your personal dreams," says Martin Hůlovec from Punk Film, producer of GIRL POWER.