Just Do It! She-Punks from 1977 to Today

Post-film discussion with Trish Herrera, Dianna Ray, and Linda Younger from the band Mydolls, and Anna Garza, founder and executive director of Girls Rock Camp Houston

Goethe-Institut guests can get $6 tickets using the discount code “F27PAR” on the MFAH Films website.

About the Film

“Do it! Don’t talk about it. Do it!” Martina Weith, lead singer and saxophonist of Germany’s first all-female punk band Östro 430, summed up the movement’s radical practice with this simple demand. Decades later, the women who led pioneering bands like Mania D, Malaria!, and Kleenex are back on stage, decrying patriarchy, sexual repression, dogmatic feminism, and right-wing violence with the same electric fervor. Just Do It! traces the story of the women of German-language punk, innovators and provocateurs who fought as hard against bourgeois society as against the subculture’s macho tendencies.
Featuring interviews with musicians like Weith, Gudrun Gut, and Bettina Köster, Reto Caduff’s nervy documentary looks back on the contradictory gender dynamics within the punk movement and these women’s triumphant fight to plant their own black flag within it.

Length: 94 mins
Language: German with English subtitles
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Director: Reto Caduff
Starring: Gudrun Gut, Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster, Sara Schär, Klaudia Schifferle, Martina Weith, Bettina Flörchinger
 

Just Do It! is part of Alle gegen Alles. Punk@50, a project of the Goethe-Institutes in the United States and Mexico marking the 50th anniversary of punk through a series of exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, and discussions that focus on punk as a subculture, protest movement, and catalyst for self-determination.