Screaming City
West Berlin 80's Film & Video

In collaboration with Pleasure dome and Double Negative Collective

(http://www.pdome.org)
(http://www.doublenegativecollective.blogspot.com/)

 

Sunday October 19, 2008 at the Sala Rossa (4848 boul. St-Laurent)

3 programmes: 6pm, 7:30pm, and 9pm
5$ per programme or 10$ for the evening

 

Curators: Florian Wüst and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

Poised at the knife's edge of the cold war, the film & video artists of West Berlin were driven to extreme forms of expression by the extremity of their geography. West-Berlin was a fortress, the last fringe of the west protruding into the east, a haven for experimentation, social resistance and a radical underground. This rare triple-program of films is a unique time capsule from a time and place when artistic expression and anti-establishment resistance met in an electric fusion, with music from legendary Pere Ubu, Chrome, Ultravox, The Residents, Throbbing Gristle, and Wire. Curated by Florian Wüst and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus for Kino Arsenal (Berlin), the three programs will be shown in a one-time-only tour in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa this October.

 

Films and videos by: Brigitte Bühler, Dieter Hormel, Cynthia Beatt, Andrea Hillen, Rolf S. Wolkenstein, Jürgen Baldiga, Yana Yo, Lysanne Thibodeau, Ingrid Maye, Volker Rendschmidt, Christoph Doering, Klaus Beyer, Michael Brynntrup, Die Tödliche Doris, Christoph Dreher, Heiner Mühlenbrock

 

 

Florian Wüst is an artist and film curator based in Berlin. He studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig School of Art and received his master's degree from the Piet Zwart Institute for postgraduate studies and research, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam. His film series and programs, often combining historical and contemporary works of all genres, have been screened internationally at festivals, museums and various cinema venues such as the International Short Film Oberhausen, the Austrian Filmmuseum or the Goethe-Institut Montréal. He is author and co-editor of Experience Memory Re-enactment (Frankfurt am Main and Rotterdam 2005).
(http://www.fwuest.com/)

 

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is a film and video curator who lives and works in Berlin. She is a member of the Board of Directors at Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, member of the selection committee of the Forum / Berlin Int. Film Festival and co-curator for Forum expanded (with Anselm Franke). She is also the founder and artistic director of Arsenal experimental, a platform for experimental film, video art and installations, and has participated in various lectures and publications, e.g. in 'Frauen und Film', 'The Moving Image','Texte zur Kunst','Ästhetik & Kommunikation', 'Schriftenreihe Kinemathek' as well as a number festival and exhibition catalogues. She is the editor of: Kinemathekheft Nr. 93: Germaine Dulac (together with Sabine Nessel and Heide Schlüpmann), Berlin 2002; The Memo Book. Films, Videos and Installations by Matthias Müller, Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2005; Wer sagt denn, dass Beton nicht brennt. West-Berlin, 80er Jahre (together with Florian Wüst), Berlin: arsenal edition & b_books, 2008.