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Sisters with Transistors

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United Kingdom · 2021
1h 26m
Director Lisa Rovner
Starring Laurie Anderson, Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani, Bebe Barron
Genre Documentary, Music

This documentary, narrated by artist and musician Laurie Anderson, tells the story of the women who pioneered electronic music. Using contemporary and archival interviews and footage, the film shows how women across the history of electronic music were able to use new tools to upend established systems and ideas.

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Rolling Stone by

While it is gratifying to hear each woman speak on her art in her own terms, the documentary’s most illuminating moments are those that demonstrate how each musician’s work has been received by others over the years.

100

RogerEbert.com by Charlie Brigden

The narrative, which is wonderfully told through a kind of archival collage that, along with the futuristic soundtrack of the profiled composers, makes it feel like an avant-garde art film.

80

Wall Street Journal by John Anderson

That the film is online because of the Covid-19 pandemic might be considered a silver lining: Not only will more people be able to see it, but they can, and should, experience it through headphones. A big screen would be nice, too, given Ms. Rovner’s hallucinogenic way with pictures. But the sound, as she would probably agree, is paramount.

90

Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh

The film is a vital historical corrective, inscribing the names of these women into history as the innovators, independent thinkers and trailblazers they were.

100

The Guardian by Leslie Felperin

Lisa Rovner’s superb documentary pays a deeply deserved, seldom-expressed tribute to the female composers, musicians and inventors from the brief history of electronic music.

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