Film
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin

Introduction and Q+A with Prof. Rob Ryder

Wed, 05/30/2018
6:30 PM Chicago Cultural Center Claudia Cassidy Theater

This film contains a combination of hard language, nudity within sensual scenes, and drug abuse. Viewers' discretion is advised!

Director: Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange, Klaus Maeck, Miriam Dehne, b/w and color, 92 min., 2014/15
 
"A decade of West Berlin subculture in original footage, breathtakingly edited – telling a story of the city during the last decade before the end of the Cold War.
This film is different. It makes it possible to plunge directly into that era of punk and dirt and freedom, which seemed like it would never end on the walled-in island. This makes it much more than just one of many documentaries about yesterday.” (Die Welt)

Rob Ryder is Visiting Professor of German Instruction at Northwestern University, having also taught at both UIC and University of Chicago. His interests derive from the aesthetic and media theory of the Frankfurt School, including Kracauer, Arnheim and Adorno, and especially Walter Benjamin. He has published articles on Ludwig Tieck, Günter Eich and Pierre Klossowski, and has given talks on Franz Kafka, Roland Barthes, and Alexander Kluge.