“Risiko” was a legendary bar/club in West Berlin. A home and source of inspiration for a lot of people. This video shows impressions of the last morning before closing down in 1986. It was filmed by Kloie Picot and Uli Schueppe with his father’s Super8-camera — not enough light inside, so they captured the life at the entrance. The material was filmed-up again from a screen on VHS and edited also on VHS without effects or anything some weeks later. They were allowed to use the unfinished version (the fantastic rough-mix!) of “Lost in Music” by Anita Lane and Mick Harvey, from a cassette-tape at that time. What we see here is exactly this version from 1986. Hardly ever shown since. At the end Nick Cave & Nikki Sudden are walking up the stairs to another club. It was somewhere at Adenauerplatz. The rooms and spaces of “Risiko” were subsequently used as a mosque.

[In memory of Alex Kögler]