Female Film Club

2024 - 2025

Female Film Club, 2024-2025, vintage leather jackets, gloves and helmets with various studs, leather paint, stickers, automotive vinyl, letraset, velvet adhesive, pins and badges, dimensions variable.

Female Film Club is for the most part, a faux gang of rebellious film goers. The badges and pins on the front of the jackets are from my personal collection; merchandise I have collected from gigs, protests and record stores to immortalise my obsessions and celebrate queer histories.

Female Film Club pays homage to the dissident, underground cinema and emerging female motorcycle clubs of the 1960’s and 70’s. The combination of leather jacket and chrome studs fetishising the wearer. Associated with bikers, high-fashion and punk rock, the leather jacket is a subversive, hyper-masculine and totally queer item of clothing – especially when it has been studded, pinned and badged. In other words, it is our uniform.

Taking cues from Kenneth Anger’s “Scorpio Rising” (1963) and Marianne Faithful’s “The Girl on a Motorcycle” (1968) in which embellishments, sexual objectification and dirty, loud machinery seamlessly intertwine; Female Film Club is a queer-portrait in leather and chrome.