It started all with my love for angry grrrl voices... bands like Bratmobile, Bikini Kill or Team Dresch had always been my "personal bests" and "rebel girls" like Donna Dresch, Allison Wolfe or Kathleen Hanna the "queens of my world"...
... unfortunately, back in the early 90ies I was too young for having even noticed or seen one of these bands live on stage... when I discovered my love for riot grrrl bands and their live performances at the age of 14 or 15, the "Revolution Girl Style, Now!" was almost over and Bikini Kill and Team Dresch had already split up...
...however, the idea of using music as a speaking tube for feminist politics "kept on living"...
... Kathleen Hanna started a new band project called "Le Tigre" together with filmmaker Sadie Benning and zine creator Johanna Fateman in 1998. By mixing punk's directness and politics with playful samples and lo-fi electronics the feminist-oriented trio created a new "revolution girl style" of music: "female+queer words+beats"...
... in her documentary "female+queer words+beats" Katharina Ellerbrock, a filmmaker from Bielefeld in northern Germany, shows how female musicians like Le Tigre have crossed borders between grrrl punk and electronic music and thereby explored new musical genres... by alternating live recordings of concerts and performances with band interviews, Katharina makes us feel as if we were a part of the audience which has the
unique chance to look backstage and get a profound insight into the ideas and feminist politics behind electronic music projects like Le Tigre, Hanin Elias, Räuberhöhle, rhythm king and her friends and Peaches...
... Katharina does without everything which is usually annoying about music videos or documentaries: there are no bustling cuts, no intrusive narrators or commentators, you can just lean back, relax and listen to the artists themselves - to their "words+beats" without any audio-visual disturbance...
... Katharina's film is more than a well-researched contemporary document about "female+queer" artists and their electronic music projects... it is a documentary with soul, something very personal: Katharina's contribution to "keep on living" that what is left and has developed from the "Revolution Girl Style, Now!"
... "female+queer words+beats"

Stephanie Müller, April 2005
Steffi Müller lebt in München und hat im Herbst 2004 die Musik-Performance Plattform namens "RAGarella & ihr AppaRaT" gegründet. http://www.ragtreasure.de/