Queer Film Night Introduced by Asten Holmes-Elliott, with Tough Love St Leonards pop-up record shop
Hit So Hard
Featuring live and recorded music from Hole, this is a revealing all-access backstage pass to the music that shaped a generation, with the openly gay drummer Patty Schemel at the heart of it.
Director: P. David Ebersole
Cast includes: Patty Schemel, Courtney Love Cobain, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Eric Erlandson, Kurt cobain
Introduced by Asten Holmes-Elliot, plus pop-up record shop from Tough Love St Leonards
1 hour 43 mins / 2011 / USA
When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era.
Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. As a young girl who always knew she was 'different' from the other kids in her farm town home outside of Seattle, the openly gay woman never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum band, touring with legends and on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'
Given a video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything; the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney. This footage has never been seen... until now.
Hit So Hard charts the experience of overnight success, the cost of addiction, and ultimately, recovery and redemption.
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Before the screening enjoy browsing the handpicked selection of '90s records to complement the film via a pop-up shop from Tough Love St Leonards, based on Bohemia Road.
Queer Film Night
A monthly film night exploring LGBTQ+ themes and stories on film. Curated by Peccadillo Pictures, one of the UK's most recognised distributors of LGBTQ+ and World Cinema titles.
Join us to celebrate the rich tapestry of LGBTQ+ experiences on film alongside conversations with filmmakers, producers, and industry experts as they share their inspirations.
About Asten Holmes-Elliot
Asten Holmes-Elliot has chosen tonight's film and will introduce the screening. Asten Holmes-Elliot is an artist and filmmaker whose work examines ideas of identity, otherness and belonging. They use a variety of mediums including illustration, painting, photography and filmmaking to research, archive and historicise fringe communities and resist their erasure and exclusion. Asten is also a Board member of Scottish Queer International Film Festival, ScotsQueerFilm and Lock Up Your Daughers Magazine.
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