20h
Shorts
21h15
Decoder (1984) – Legendärer Thriller mit W.S. Burroughs und den jungen Neubauten
Pop performer F.M. Einheit (Einsturzende Neubaüten) discovers that different sonic frequencies
induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio, and later in the local 'H-Burger' restaurant, where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions...
The government headquarters responsible for this are represented by a huge 'fascist' building
full of winding spools. Meanwhile, Bill Rice, the government official who works there,
goes on a journey of sexual discovery in the local red-light district...
Einheit, after several arguments with his girlfriend, played by former child prostitute
Christianne F. and dream sequences
featuring William S. Burroughs, finds himself amongst underground rebels
led by Genesis P. Orridge (Psychic TV / Throbbing Gristle), who explains to FM how
the government have been 'controlling' the public through muzak.
Soundtrack by Psychic TV, Dave Ball (Soft Cell/PTV), FM Einheit, The The,
William S. Burroughs, and Einsturzende Neubauten.
23h
Death Powder
Shigeru Izumiya's underground classic Desu Pawuda aka Death Powder (Japan, 1986) is definitely among the weirdest, most bizarre films ever made. It reminds of David Lynch's Eraserhead, Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo and some other extremely memorable and unique exercises in cinematic magic and limits beyond imagination. Death Powder has very little to do with plot or story, and what's there is extremely hard to follow and seems not to make any sense. One character says at one point to another: "Try to pretend that you're understanding what it's all about. Like life itself, this makes no sense." That line really tells something what to expect from this low budget gem from Japan, the land of many great film makers.
There are three mercenaries/soldiers who go to some mysterious storehouse in which even more mysterious figure is lying on a bed without any mattress. Suddenly, the figure blows some dust/powder on one of the soldiers and then the nightmare begins. It soon turns out, that one of the soldiers (played by the director Izumiya himself) has already been "infected" by this powder and now the question is what will happen to these two hapless victims, the other being a female by the way. The newly "infected" mercenary starts to have severe hallucinations into some netherworld, a universe unknown to us and a place never depicted on film before, and soon it is revealed that the powder has still many more victims to "dust".
