Filmvorführung
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989

09. & 11.04.16
20.30 Uhr
Cinema Village

As part of KINO! 2016, the Goethe-Institut co-presents B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989 (2015), with director, screenwriter, and producer Klaus Maeck in attendance for Q&A sessions after the screenings on April 9 and 11.

David Bowie arrived in West Berlin in the late 1970s from LA to escape a spiraling drug addiction. By the time he left in the early 1980s he had recorded three back-to-back albums now known as his Berlin Trilogy. It was one of his most productive periods. In his wake, young British Bowie disciples descended on the divided city.

Mark Reeder, an aspiring artist-musician with a penchant for military garb, arrived in 1978 from Manchester at the age of 20. It was a time when possibilities seemed infinite. Yes, West Berlin was encircled by Communist East Germany and the city was in a state of emergency. But life there was cheap and Reeder immediately felt a sense of belonging in the creative melting pot of the city's post-punk underground music scene. He managed up-and-coming acts, including the all-girl band Malaria! he took on tour with Nick Cave's The Birthday Party. He organized Joy Division's only Berlin show. He played with his own new-wave group Shark Vegas.

But Reeder was also involved in film and television projects, and actively documented West Berlin’s drug- and booze-fuelled party culture for British television. His unique personal footage along with staged reenactments played by Reeder doppelganger Marius Weber and unearthed Super 8 films from dozens of other filmmakers form the basis of B-Movie. Nostalgic yet inspirational, the documentary collages never-before-seen archival fragments and vividly brings back to life local icons of the time such as Gudrun Gut and Blixa Bargeld as well as many others who fleetingly came and went, from Tilda Swinton and Keith Haring to David Hasselhoff and New Order.

Germany 2015, 92 minutes

Directed by Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange
Starring Mark Reeder and others
Music by Westbam, Malaria!, Einstürzende Neubauten, Joy Division, Edgar Froese, Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, Anne Clark, Ideal, Nena, Sex Pistols, Tödliche Doris