OKAY OKAY Christoph Dreher & Heiner Mühlenbrock, BRD 1980, 16mm, 90′

OKAY OKAY. The Modern Dance, produced at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (dffb), travels through a manmade world void of people: waste sites, parking garages, industrial chimneys, and rundown housing blocks. The timeless selection of songs by Pere Ubu, The Residents, Wire, Throbbing Gristle, Ultravox, James Chance, among others, not only underscores these images of post-apocalyptic landscapes and urban decay, it forms the core of Dreher and Mühlenbrock’s outstanding film: a radical approach to contemporary life profoundly influenced by punk, post-punk and new wave.

Special screening Monday, November 17, 2014, in Berlin.