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5. Juni / Redder than Red

18:00 Uhr

von Nika Kramer, Martha Cooper
Deutschland/USA 2005, 17 min, Dokumentation

"Redder than Red" ist eine Dokumentation über Hanifa Queen Hudson aka Bubbles, die erste und legendäre UK Breakdancerin. Hanifa Queen tanzte mit der The B-Boys Crew in den frühen 80er Jahren. Die B-Boys und mit ihr Hanifa wurden durch Film, Fernsehen und Presse bekannt und sie war die erste Mädchen weltweit, dass mit den Männern auf einem Level breakte und battlete.

Der Film erforscht die Geschichte der heute 37 jährigen Engländerin mit jamaikanischem Background. Ein Mädchen, dass am Anfang einer aufregenden Bewegung zu etwas Ruhm gelangte und dann vergessen wurde. Seit ihrer aktiven Breakdance-Zeit hat Bubbles geheiratet, ist Mutter geworden und ließ sich scheiden und konvertierte zum Islam, seitdem ist ihr Name Hanifa. Der Film versucht die Stimmung der frühen HipHop-Jahre in England einzufangen, als Hip Hop frisch aus der Bronx herüber nach England kam. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf ihrem sehr eigenen Tanzstil, den sie aus Afrikanischem Tanz, Trommeln, Kick-Boxen und aus den jamaikanischen Einflüssen ihrer Nachbarschaft Wolverhampton entwickelte.

Link zur Homepage: www.bgirlz.com

The Story of the first UK B-Girl While working on the We B*Girlz book, we searched for names and photos of pioneering B*Girlz from the early days of Hip Hop. These proved surprisingly difficult to find. Although breaking had been going strong since 1980 and had spread around the world, until recently, very few girls had seriously participated in the scene. After hearing about the legendary Hanifa Queen aka Bubbles we invited her to the b-girl edition of the Gimme a Break jam in Rotterdam. After meeting her, we were drawn to her personality and her unique history and felt that she would be the perfect woman for a documentary—and thus the idea for Redder than Red was born.

"Redder than Red" is a 17 minute documentary about Hanifa Queen Hudson aka Bubbles, the legendary first UK female breakdancer. Hanifa Queen danced with a renowned Wolverhampton crew called The B-Boys in the early 80’. The B-Boys rose to fame with appearances on TV and in the landmark Hip Hop films Electro Rock and Bombin’. Bubbles was the first girl worldwide to break and compete on the same level as the guys.

Combining vintage and recent footage, our film explores the life history of a talented, now 37 year old, Jamaican-British girl who got caught up in the excitement of Hip Hop in the early 80’s, attained a measure of fame, was virtually forgotten, but has recently re-entered the scene. In the intervening years, Bubbles married, had a son, divorced, and converted to Islam, changing her name to Hanifa. The film captures the excitement of the early days of Hip Hop as it arrived fresh from the Bronx to England in the 80's. Contemporary footage includes interviews with people from Hanifa's past and present and shows how her involvement in African dance, drumming, kick boxing, and her Jamaican community in Wolverhampton influenced her dancing.The film’s highlight is a reunion of Bubbles’ crew, the B-Boys in the local community center where they dance together for the first time in nearly 20 years. An interview with Bubbles describing her life and her feelings about it, weaves the segments together. Bubbles became famous through a line in Electro Rock when the host says: “Check out the one in red—it’s a girl!” Since she is Jamaican-British, we took the title from the old Bob Marley song Redder than Red.