#mark reeder

[cleopatragirlie]

Familiar faces who appear in the documentary: B-Movie: Lust and Sound in Berlin (2015)

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Gudrun Gut, Blixa Bargeld, Mark Reeder & ? I don’t know …

[rwpohl]

b-movie: lust & sound in west-berlin 1979–1989, 2015

[shabbytigers]

There is a perfectly good reason why B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989 puts one of the three guys who made it, Mark Reeder, way the fuck too front and center — to the point you’re sitting there like, omfg, I have never heard of you, I don’t care, none of this is making me care more, your outfits are fucking stupid yes I remember the vintage military uniforms edgy fashion trope that existed at the time and no it wasn’t particularly okay, get your dumb face the FUCK out of the way already so I can see all the things I came to see? — and it’s the fact that it’s a documentary they largely stitched together from period footage and the bulk of the corpus came from Mark Reeder’s collection. It was basically: they decided to make the movie be a Mark movie as well as a West Berlin 80s movie because most of the footage they wanted to use had his face in it. Emergent, bottom-up decision.

The reason I know this is that I went to a screening of it tonight, in a weird little cinema in a building in the third courtyard back from Hasenheide in one of those winding maze many-courtyard complexes on the sixth floor with no elevator and a full bar and giant seats built into brick banquettes, which I gather is a one-woman-owned project and labor of love. And two of the three, Mark and Klaus, were at the screening and explained what happened. I still don’t wildly care for Mark Reeder tbh but without him two thirds of the movie wouldn’t exist so whatever.

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Personal-scale documentarian instincts have devolved into a thing people look down on now bc selfie sticks, Instagram, etc make it easy to do in a vapid depthless way. But this is legit a drive that some people had back in the 80s, early 90s, when you had to kludge your own thing together much much more and it was, broadly speaking, punk, in the DIY/authentic aesthetic sense. One of my best (and the coolest of my) friends Polaroided her life for some years, till they tragically discontinued the tech, and it absolutely cast a glamour +2 patina over everything. I also just remembered a forgotten Blixa Bargeld project called serialbathroomdummyrun that I can’t even find on the interbunny nowadays. It was literally just snapshots of all his hotel room bathrooms from touring. So, like, this was a whole vibe, and one that wasn’t commoditized yet. I can easily buy that Reeder was one of a subset of people who had the version of that drive that existed in that way at that time and who were just piling up the super 8 or early vhs or whatever like crazy, not even watching it all, just compulsively collecting it in a cupboard somewhere.

[versinalia]

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"Monika By The Sea" by UK musician Mark Reeder, off the 2003 soundtrack Nekromantik 2 Special Soundtrack Edition for the German film Nekromantik 2 (1991)

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[elektroblues]

Alistair Gray, Elisabeth Recker, and Mark Reeder

[lethedrown]

Malaria! from B Movie: Lust & Sound In West-Berlin 1979-1989

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nekromantik 2 (1991) dir. jörg buttgereit