SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH | 86 MIN
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.
The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.
DIRECTOR Lisa Rovner
NARRATOR Laurie Anderson
PRODUCER Anna Lena Films
CO-PRODUCED Marcus Werner Hed
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION United Kingdom
“A SUPERB DOCUMENTARY”
★★★★★
— THE GUARDIAN
“electrifying works like ‘Sisters With Transistors’…
feel less like a film and more like a manifesto”
★★★★
— ROGEREBERT.COM
“an incredible, almost hallucinatory recontextualiSing of electronica…
It’s also one of 2021’s very best films.”
— CRITERION CAST
“The women who built EDM get their turn in the strobe light”
★★★★
— NME
“SWT is more than a music documentary. It's a long overdue tribute to the
women that broke barriers in music, technology AND society AS A WHOLE”
★★★★
— THE ARTS DESK
"A vibrant and exciting film... imbued with a spirit of innovation, imagination and defiance against the odds."
— Sophie Brown Juror CPH:DOX NEXT: WAVE AWARD
FESTIVALS + AWARDS
2020 SXSW Film Festival
Official Selection
2020 CPH:DOX
Next Wave Award
2020 Sheffield Doc Fest
Official Selection
AFI Fest
Official Selection