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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015 · Film · documentary · 94 min
Directed by Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.
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For anyone into music and art, just recently I have seen "B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989" (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4291066/ and I can't get the soundtrack out of my head. Genius edit on tons of rare video material!
Make sure you have English subtitles just for a few scenes if you don't understand German.
Ah, and one can ask how come it was finished in 2015 and Mark Reeder the main character haven't aged in staged scenes? No VFX ;) Read after watching https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/b-movie-lust-sound-west-773108/
I am quite familiar with techno culture and this piece is extremely misrepresentative. Reads like a promo piece from the artist's clueless PR agent. Maybe the Detroit scene sees things like this (I am from Europe), but no, techno is definitely not "a combination of technology and funk" or "a term to describe and introduce all kinds of electronic music". Nobody familiar with the scene would refer to drum and bass, dubstep or trance as "techno". I am genuinely surprised both how this can come from an apparently significant record label and how an empty promo piece like this appears in Wired.
On the note of techno culture, B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin[0] is a great documentary/autobiography on the emergence of Berlin techno culture and the Berlin Wall.
[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4291066/