In the  Contort Yourself! film and lecture series at Hebbel am Ufer, curators Christian Höller and Christoph Gurk screened rarely seen films that were made in late 1970s/early 1980s New York in the context of post-punk music, post-underground cinema and post modern art. The term coined for this “movement”, No Wave was not embraced by Continue Reading

This weekend’s program at HAU encompasses rarely seen short films by John Lurie, Bette Gordon, Vivienne Dick, James Nares, Tessa Hughes Freeland, Eric Mitchell, Beth B. & Scott B., David Wojnarowicz and many others. Co-curator (with Berlin-based Christoph Gurk) Christian Höller, who also initiated the whole No Wave film retrospective (which has previously been shown Continue Reading

Amos Poe, director of No Wave/post punk film classics such as THE FOREIGNER and NIGHT LUNCH as well as the more recent Warhol homage EMPIRE II, will see a busy fall. His latest film La COMMEDIA di Amos Poe raised $20,000 for post production completion (target was $12,000) on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. La Continue Reading

Céline Danhier’s documentary BLANK CITY uncovers amazing footage of Super 8 and 16mm film gems made in the late 1970s and early 1980s in downtown (Lower Eastside) New York. At that time, New York City was practically bankrupt (the federal government refused a bailout, somewhat comparable to the German Federal Court denying Berlin Mayor Klaus Continue Reading