This October, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles will host the touring exhibition Brilliant Dilletantes – Subculture in Germany in the 1980s.
Curated by Mathilde Weh, (Visual Arts, Goethe-Institut, Munich), this multimedia exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of German subculture of the 1980’s to date and includes, photos, posters, albums and cassettes, as well videos and an interactive sound station offering samples music from the bands Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft/D.A.F., Der Plan, Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten, Freiwillig Selbstkontrolle/ F.S.K., Ornament und Verbrechen, and Palais Schaumburg.

Preceding the exhibition’s opening, documentary, experimental, and feature films focusing on this era of artistic freedom will be presented at the Goethe-Institut.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE OF CHARGE. ALL FILMS ARE IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Location

GOETHE-INSTITUT
5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Tickets FREE OF CHARGE

Information:

323.525.3388 or http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/los/ver/en14689150v.htm

Tod den Hippies!! Es lebe der Punk! (Punk!)
Germany (BRD), 2014/15, 105 min, digital, Dir. Oskar Roehler
Cast: Tom Schilling, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Emilia Schüle, Frederick Lau, Samuel Finzi, Alexander Scheer, Hannelore Hoger..
Music: Blixa Bargeld, Alexander Hacke, PIL, Alien Sex Fiend, The Birthday Party, plus others

Far from a documentary account of this period of explosive creativity, Roehler’s black comedy (based in part on his own experiences in Berlin in the 1980s) offers a tongue-in-cheek look the avant-garde underground of Berlin of the 1980s.
West Germany, 1980. 19-year-old Robert (Tom Schilling) is bored with the quiet life in the countryside and the self-indulgent hippies at his boarding school. In an act of spontaneity, he packs up and moves to West-Berlin. An “Island of Creativity,” the walled-in city promises to be a paradise for misfits with its countless bars, thriving subculture and a scene defined by art, sex, drugs and punk rock. Yet once he arrives, he quickly learns that the city is not quite as glamorous as he had imagined. Robert calls on his old friend Schwarz (Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht), who offers him a job as janitor in his peep show, and introduces him to the Berlin nightlife. Searching for his true calling, Robert spends his alcohol fueled nights at the infamous “Risiko” club”, where he is surrounded by loud music, and legendary figures of the Berlin underground scene like Blixa Bargeld (Alexander Scheer), and Nick Cave. The young “Wanna-be Dilettante” even falls in love with Sanja (Emilia Schüle), a dancer at the peep show. As he and Schwarz look for new ways to better their financial situation, a robbery could provide the needed starting capital for their career as drug dealers.