D.E.B.S. + zine making (12)

Join Fruits on Film for an afternoon of zine making, drinks, and mingling before a special sapphic screening of Angela Robinson’s 2004 camp classic D.E.B.S. The film will be introduced by Zain Gibson from Never Watching Movies, and the zine making will be led by Kareyni Davis from Backronym Films.

Tickets for this event are £13.50 for members (restricted to 2 per member, so you can bring a guest for the same price), and £16.50 for non-members. Tickets include access to the pre-screening activity of zine making (with all materials provided) in the Atrium Bar, as well as an allocated seat for the film.

Event timings:

17:30  Doors open, zine making and drinks in the bar

19:00  Intro + screening of D.E.B.S.

20:45  Expected finish

About D.E.B.S.:

Recruited by the U.S. government for their unique ability to lie, cheat, and fight, Amy, Max, Janet, and Dominique join an underground academy of secret agents known only as D.E.B.S. Now these crime-fighting hotties must combine their skills for their most important mission yet: to capture vexing vixen Lucy Diamond, the deadliest criminal the world has ever known. But when D.E.B.S. star recruit Amy Bradshaw falls head over heels for Lucy, chaos erupts and her loyalty to the D.E.B.S. and her friends is put to the ultimate test.

Content warning: Contains depictions and references to substance use, mild references to sex, homophobia, ableist language, and mild depictions of violence.

A note from the Fruits on Film curators:

D.E.B.S. emerged in 2004, from a very specific cultural soup: the high school campiness of Britney Spears’ debut single '...Baby One More Time', early internet and its aesthetics (famously on display in The Matrix), and the genesis of successful spy franchises like Spy Kids and the Charlie’s Angels and Mission: Impossible reboots. After a patchy premise explained in under three minutes, D.E.B.S. launches straight into an outsized fantasy designed to delight the lesbian gaze. Director Angela Robinson utilises satire and full-throttle camp, whilst also balancing a coming-of-age and first love story that highlights the complexities of coming to terms with queer identity and breaking away from a heteronormative and restrictive status quo. The protagonist, Amy, grapples with all of these issues in this thrilling tale of the love shared not only in a romantic context, but also through the friends who stick by you while you are finding yourself. The low-budget set and costume choices could be mistaken as hastily-written and under-resourced production, but upon further inspection the film is full of campy easter eggs and innuendos, and the stuff of consciously self-aware, cult-classic magic. One thing is clear: by the time the gorgeous gay supervillain Lucy Diamond is singing Erasure’s ‘A Little Respect’ with her dorky henchman Scud while trying to recapture the heart of the hero, you’ll be totally hooked on D.E.B.S.

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