Saturday 8 April 2006, 19.00

Programme duration approx 70 min

At the beginning of the 1980s West Berlin was a walled-off island of decadence in the middle of the Communist DDR, an urban culture of bars and clubs (such as Martin Kippenberger's SO36) that thrived at night. The cheap Super 8 film format, already becoming obsolete in the early 1980s, was the cinematic equivalent of punk in Berlin. In a fevered frenzy, musicians, photographers, painters and filmmakers in the city's underground art scene collaborated in cross-disciplinary projects. The best of these dark, apocalyptic films were radical experiments in the form. This proudly amateurish movement remained unknown but for a small circle of contemporaries. This programme features ten films from this charged moment in Berlin's underground culture.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

Films screened on DVD.

E dopo? (And then?)
Brand & Maschmann, 1981, 3:15 min

Without Love There Is No Death
Maye & Rendschmidt, 1980, 4:28 min

Hammer and Sickle
Walter Gramming, 1978, 4:31 min

Morning Songs
George Marioth, 1985, 14:09 min

Such Was the SO36
Manfred Jelinski, 1982-84, 12 min

Yellow Fever
Andrea Hillen, 1982, 2:28 min

Formula Super VIII
Stiletto Studios, 1983, 1:49 min

My Daddy
Jörg Buttgereit, 1981, 7:10 min

3302
Christoph Doering, 1979, 14:35 min

Wedding Night
Ika Schier, 1981, 3:56 min (re-edited version 2004)

This event is related to the Martin Kippenberger exhibition