B-Movie

Hoping to follow in the footsteps of legends like David Bowie and CAN, Manchester punk rocker and early electronic music acolyte Mark Reeder arrives in a divided Berlin in 1979. Luckily, he films everything he sees: black leather-clad teenagers, giant pink and red hairdos, gritty basement gigs, and a parade of the scene’s most illustrious figures, including Nick Cave, Mania D’s Gudrun Gut, and Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld. Through the movement’s system-smashing highs to its waning years in the age of Reunification, Reeder plays the outsider’s insider to the beating heart of Germany’s underground cultural life. 

Lovingly assembled from a decade of fascinating film and audio material, “B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin” provides a fast-paced but no less intimate look at Berlin’s punk and electronic subculture through the eyes of one of its greatest devotees. 

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