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..SUMMER 06..

27.06.06
Location: Zentrale Randlage
Theme: HOOTENANNY BOOTLEG
Captain Dada presents MONDO BIZARRO
Media DeCompression*s weirdass, rare, media artifact compendium
with special guest the HAFERFLOCKEN SWINGERS
the Berlin based jazz, trash, gypsy, swing band with the funk for your trunk.

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..SPRING 06..

09.05.06
Location: Zentrale Randlage
Theme: 3D KINO !
Media DeCompression takes you on an
IMPOSSIBLE MISSION IN THE 3RD DIMENSION
Hey kids! When was last time you went to the movies... in 3D?! Tonight's program features a radical array of optical illusions starting off with MDC short film programming followed by a 3D extravaganza! 3D glasses & popcorn will be available inside. Down with commercial cinema! Let's go KINO! in 3D! with MDC

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04.04.06
Location: Zentrale Randlage
THEME: Film/Dreams/Reality
While movies are our most popular medium of entertainment, that won't prevent them from being recognized in the future as the highest, most significant art form of the 20th century. Integrating sight & sound in a 24 frame per second, dreamlike state of receptivity, movies make their impression in time. But unlike other theatrical arts which occur in real time, movies occur in unreal time. And as you may have already guessed, 'unreal time' is something which is hitting everyones spot art wise and will become only more emotionally relevant as time goes on. recent discoveries in quantum physics make this inevitable... regardless of the uncertainty principle.

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07.03.06
Location: Zentrale Randlage
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE HERE TO BE SOMEPLACE ELSE
 THEME: SURVEILLANCE
Media Decompression presents an evening of observation. An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, convenience, and surveillance determine our environment. From invisible identity tags to long range satellite surveillance. Reality is revealed through side-glances, presence through absence, and artistic originality is coined from borrowed tropes.

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..WINTER 05-06..

23.02.06
Location: Brunnenstrasse 183
NOMADS & NO-ZONES
DVD Spex, Short Films from Vanessa Renwick and Greta Snider.
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
TRIBUTE TO DR. SUESS

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09.02.06
Location: Brunnenstrasse 183
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF UNDERGROUND CINEMA
Psychick-Welding
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
HERZ AUS GLAS
Werner Herzog (1976)
94min - German - English subtitles
A small village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.

07.02.06
Location: Zentrale Randlage
SECRET MISSION
MDC is back! In 2006! With a new Venue! Awesome! FEATURE PRESENTATION:
TV CARNAGE!!
(2005)
A playfully inappropriate composition of media taken from TV, bad movies, commercials, news programs, etc. TV Carnage is the agent provocateur of televison, grabbing footage and re-contextualizing it into glorious cesspools of retardation. Non-stop laughs throughout all of the absurdity.

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01.12.05
Location: Beamer 84
MEDIA DETOURNAMENT LAB
Reprogrammed Media shorts
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
CAN DIALECTICS BREAK BRICKS?
René Vienet (1973)
90 min - French with English subtitles
A dashing hero, a spirited heroine, and an inspiring crusade against evil transmogrified into an epic tale of the struggle of the proletariat against the evil bureaucratic bourgeoisie.
Can Dialectics Break Bricks is every bit as quirky and strange as it sounds. The randomness and slight surrealism of the B movie are exaggerated by the bizarre and totally inappropriate narrative about dialectical materialism and references to Castro. Elegantly adapted to the setting of a 1950's kung-fu film.

..AUTUMN 05..

24.11.05
Location: Beamer 84
ILLEGAL DEPORTATION
Bring your deportation related short videos to be shown!
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
AUSLÄNDER RAUS! FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER
Paul Poet (2002)
90 min - german with english subtitles
Austria 2000: Right after the FPÜ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Viennas touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by passer-bys and two were thrown out of the country through web-voting.
The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny - and frightening. Austria freaked out. Thousands of screaming people gathered. Attacks with knifes, beatings, acid occurred. Political intrigues. Headlines all over Europe. 800,000 worldwide joined via internet. An incredibly heated week, capturing the European right-wing drift in real time. Democracy the hard way.

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17.11.05
Location: Beamer 84
APOCALYPSE WHEN?!
Shorts: MDC Melt Down Mixup
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
ATOMIC CAFE
Pierce & Kevin Rafferty & Jayne Loader (1982)
92 min - english
Is it only possible to counter propaganda with propaganda? Three American film archivists, discovering a trove of American material from the Cold War era - US Army Information films, newsreels, advertisements, radio broadcasts, government shorts, songs, cartoons etc. - decided to make a compilation film from it. The result is stunning, horrifying, comic, unreal, revealing an entire nation, the most powerful and influential nation in the world, the centre of modern democracy, home to many of the brightest minds in the world, giving way to collective insanity. And all over one of America's most far-reaching inventions, the atomic bomb. Duck and cover everyone! A great look into the ultra-paranoid mindset of the Cold War.
AFTER HOURS FEATURE:
CANNIBAL WOMEN IN THE AVOCADO JUNGLE OF DEATH
J.F. Lawton (1989)
90 min - english
A U.S. Operative implores a feminist college professor to enter the wilds of the Avocado jungle and help reclaim it from the cannibalistic, radical, ancient feminist order of the Barracuda women. Why? Because the acquisition of avocados is imperative to national security! This total farce hits and demolishes all the high points of Apocalypse Now, as well as drawing on the drama of Heart of Darkness and the action-thrills of Indiana Jones. A low-budget comedy that packs a lot of laughs and even a message or two.

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10.11.05
Location: Beamer 84
WELCOME TO FUN STREET!
FREE STUFF ! MDC ABSPIELGERAETE !
Did you say... Negativland ! EBN - Commercial Entertainment Product, - All your favorites - the very best of Fun Street
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
WIZARD PEOPLE, DEAR READER
THE iLLEGAL ART OF H.P
Brad Neely (2002)
142 min - english
Wizard People, Dear Reader is an unauthorized re-envisioning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Neely has taken a film widely considered to be a faithful rendering of a book and made it inescapably literary, a story in the old-time sense. Broken into chapters, Neely's words create images that flesh out the ones on screen. Wizard People is bookish but not quite a book, movie-like but not quite a movie. Call it artistic appropriation, theft, or piracy; at any rate your intellectual property will be laughing its ass off - or double your money back!
I am a beautiful animal! I am a destroyer of worlds!
I am HARRY FUCKING POTTER!

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08.11.05
Location: Z-Bar
S&M
Slave/Master -- Sacher Masoch -- Sade, Marquis de
..`.SvankMajer.`..
Shorts: Surreal Mixup
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE
Jan Svankmajer (1996)
75 min - body language/sound effects
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.
Told entirely using visuals, leaving nothing to the imagination except the story.

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03.11.05
Location: Beamer 84
EXTREME LOW FREQUENCY
Shorts: Political Resonance/Dissonance
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
ACCELERATED UNDERDEVELOPMENT
The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Alvarez
Travis Wilkerson (1999)
64 min - english/spanish (english subs)
In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez - He who hits first hits twice. A portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez. Screened with two of Alvarez still vibrant masterpieces of agit-cinema: LBJ - a bitter satire in three parts, around the three assassinations of King and the two Kennedys; and 79 Springs of Ho Chi Minh - both a masterpiece of personal cinema and a cry of rage against American imperialism. Alvarez was am ardent supporter of the revolution and director of newsreel production; working with minimum budgets and often re-working footage, he made films that were almost experimental, often personal and poetic. Famously he said: `Give me two photographs, a moviola and some music and I'll make you a film.'

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20.10.05
Location: Beamer 84
WHO'S YOUR DADA?
Dadaism / Experimental Film Night
Featuring Shorts by.. Stan Vanderbeek, William S. Burroughs, DEVO, Ladislas Starewicz, Peter Tchekassky, Jan Svankmajer, Luis Bu�el, Salvador Dali & Virgil Widrich.
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
LAND WITHOUT BREAD
Luis Bu�el (1933)
30min - english
The region of Las Hurdes, not far from Salamanca, is largely cut off from the rest of the world. To reach Las Hurdes, it is necessary to travel through the town of La Alberca, which itself has some unusual sights and customs. The Hurdanos themselves live in several dozen villages in the nearby mountains, near a valley that contains the ruins of a convent. The lifestyle of the Hurdanos is so primitive that, until fairly recently, even bread was unknown to them.

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13.10.05
Location: Beamer 84
NO, THIS IS NOT A PORNO THEATER
Shorts by Jack Smith, Richard Kern, & others..
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
THE SUBJECT IS SEX
(Sex Shorts from the Archive restored by Other Cinema)
100min - english
Stephen Parr of Oddball Film+Video presents an extraordinary personal romp through the seamy side of Sex in Cinema. Drawn from his extensive 16mm film archives, this polymorphous program promises a pulsating panorama of perverse pleasures that includes home movies, hillbilly porn, cartoon smut, commercials, trailers, educationals, hygiene films, burlesque bits, peep show loops, and oozing oodles more!
AFTER HOURS SHOW:
THE RASPBERRY REICH
Bruce La Bruce (2004)
90min - english and german mixed
*** WARNING: Contains explicit Sexual Content ***
"The Revolution is my boyfriend. Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses".

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11.10.05
Location: Z-Bar
MUTANT CINEMA
The Z-Bar Presents the mutating Z-inema
Short Film Programming
FILM IST - FAST FILM - OUT OF THE INKWELL
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
SONIC OUTLAWS
Craig Baldwin (1995)
87min - english
Sonic Outlaws is an energized discourse on contemporary controversies concerning copyright infringement, "fair use," and culture-jamming. Stemming from an investigation into the infamous Negativland-U2 suit, this dense montage of interview, music, and stock footage spirals out into the similarly inspired activities of John Oswald, the Tape-beatles, the Emergency Broadcast Network, the Barbie Liberation Organization, the Situationists, and a multitude of others now working with "found" sound. Practices of phone-pranking, billboard alteration, media-hoaxing, and the digitalization of intellectual property, seen in light of the law in a period of rapid artistic and technological change, foreground emerging tensions between imagination, authorship, autonomy, and the marketplace.

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06.10.05
Location: Beamer 84
MONDO BIZARRO
Animation Night! Featuring Shorts by..
Bill Plympton, Jim Woodring, Don Hertzfeld & more..
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
HEAVY METAL
Gerald Potterton & Jimmy T. Murakami (1981)
90min - animation - english
A sweeping story of the battle of good against evil is told through an anthology of short animated films about a glowing green orb (the Loc-Nar) that is the personification of ultimate evil in the universe. Based loosely on the French magazine "Heavy Metal".

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29.09.05
Location: Beamer 84
AMERIKA'S UNORTHODOX DISASTER
Short Films: Receiver (Jon Leone), Deformer (Mike Mills),
Delusions in Modern Primitivism (Daniel Loflin), & more...
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
GUMMO
Harmony Korine (1997)
89min - english with german subtitles
Solomon and Tummler are two bored teenage boys who live in Xenia, Ohio. A few years ago, a tornado swept through it, destroying more than half the town and killing the same amount, including Solomon's father. The film, from there, chronicles the anti-social adventures these two boys have. These include sniffing glue, killing cats, having sex, riding dirtbikes, listening to black metal, and meeting a cavalcade of quirky, bizzare, and scary people. These include a man who pimps his mentally ill wife to our anti-heroes, three sisters who play with their cat and practice becoming strippers, a gay black Jewish midget and his boyfriend, a 12-year-old gay transvestite who is also a cat killer, Solomon's mother, two foul-mouthed six-year olds, and most importantly, a nymphlike skateboarder who walks around town wearing pink rabbit ears.

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23.09.05
Location: Beamer 84
KINO OF THE SUBGENIUS
TV Sheriff, Mickey Mouse, Dada Art, & more..
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
DYNAMITE CHICKEN!
Ernest Pintoff (1972)
76min - english
A collection of skits, parodies, musical performances, and film clips relating to the peace movement of the late Sixties and early Seventies: War, drugs, national pride (or lack thereof), police brutality, feminism and..

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08.09.05
Location: Beamer 84
AMERICA'S WAR ON HUMANITY:
NOLA REMEMBRANCE: THE HURRICANE KATRINA STORY.
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
I'M GONNA GET YOU SUCKA!
Wayans Bros. (1988)
88min - english
AFTER HOURS FEATURE:
DELIRIOUS
Eddie Murphy (1987)

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01.09.05
Location: Beamer 84
YOU ARE BEING WATCHED!
Short Film Programming.
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
TRIBULATION 99: ALIEN ANOMALIES UNDER AMERICA
Craig Baldwin (1992)
48min - english
AFTER HOURS FEATURE:
KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE
John Landis (1977)
90min - english

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..SUMMER 05..

25.08.05
Location: Beamer 84
GUERILLA FILMTAKING
Short Film Programming.
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
CECIL B. DEMENTED
John Waters (2000)
87min - english (with german subtitles)

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18.08.05
Location: Beamer 84
YOUNG, TALENTED, & UNDEREMPLOYED
Short Film Programming.
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
SLACKER
Richard Linklater (1991)
100min - english

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11.08.05
Location: Beamer 84
JUST GIVE'R
Short Film Programming.
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
FUBAR
Michael Dowse (2002)
76min - english

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04.08.05
Location: Beamer 84
COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS
Short Films from the Emergency Broadcast Network (EBN).
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
TERROR 2000 - INTENSIVSTATION DEUTSCHLAND
Christoph Schlingensief (1992)
90min

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21.07.05
Location: Beamer 84
ILLEGAL ARTS
Celebrate what is rapidly becoming the "degenerate art" of a corporate age: art and ideas on the legal fringes of intellectual property. Some of the pieces in the show have eluded lawyers, others have had to appear in court.
Illegal Art Short Film Program (Various)
State of the Union Address, Special Report (Brian Boyce), Strategic Cyber Defense, G.I.Joe PSAs (knowing was half the battle), Nintendo & Disney (ReMixed), and more...
Short films from the EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
WIZARD PEOPLE
THE iLLEGAL ART OF H.P
(2002) 142min - english

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14.07.05
Location: Beamer 84
THIS AINT' YO GRANDMA'S MTV PARTY!
MUSIC VIDEOS GALORE ! Open Screening + All YOUR FAVORITES. The best of the worst! Featuring: Zlad! -Electronic SuperSonic, Rubber Johnny, Atari, & Mr. T. Your alternative Music TeleVision Network.

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07.07.05
Location: Beamer 84
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE
There's been a long tradition in modern art that began in the late 19th century of taking things- objects, ads, images from popular culture and relocating them into works of art. An interesting mix of rearranged commercial entertainment, media hacking, and cultural recycling.
NEGATIVLAND
U-2, Gimme the Mermaid, Truth In Advertising?, and.. The Mashin' of the Christ
Negativland (2004)
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
SONIC OUTLAWS
Craig Baldwin (1996)
87min - 16mm - english

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30.06.05
Location: Beamer 84
FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY
QUASI QUALIA
10min - Sony corp. (2005)
ORSON WELLES' MAGIC SHOW
TV (1985) - 25min - english (with german subtitles)
FEATURE PRESENTATION:
F FOR FAKE
Orson Welles (1972)
88min - english

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21.06.05
Location: Beamer 84
OTHER CINEMA PRESENTS:
SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM
Craig Baldwin (1999)
94min - 16mm - english

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Venue Locations

Beamer 84
Rigaer Str. 83a - Friedrichshain
U-Bhf. Samariterstrasse

Z-Bar
Bergstr.2 - Mitte
U-Bhf. Rosenthaler Platz

Tangoloft
Wiesenstrasse 62, Hof 4, Aufgang 5 - Wedding
S-Bhf. Humboldthain

Zentrale Randlage
Schönhauser Allee 172 - Mitte
U-Bhf. Senefelderplatz

Brunnenstrasse 183
Brunnenstrasse 183, back house - Mitte
U-Bhf. Rosenthalerplatz
Tram M1, M8, M12
Nitebus N8, N58

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