// date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008

// time: 20.00

// free entry

"never the same as it ever was..."

a screening and lecture on the films and videos of Die Tödliche Doris by Alena Williams

General Public

Tuesday, 8. April 2008, 20.00 Uhr

Over the course of seven years, the post-punk band Die Tödliche Doris made its mark on the 1980s musical scene in Berlin. Often consisting of a maximum of three or four performers at any one time -- Wolfgang Müller, Nikolas Utermöhlen, Dagmar Dimitroff, Käthe Kruse, Chris Dreier, and Tabea Blumenschein -- the group assumed a number of configurations as diverse as the artistic mediums in which they worked. At times conceived and produced independently of their music, their films and videos exemplify their collaborative and self-referential approach to artistic production, which often bordered on the burlesque. Reciting texts, narrating images, re-recording and overlapping sound, they transformed documents into events, reinventing their own music and filmed recordings both on stage and in front of the camera. This presentation by Alena Williams, an art historian and curator based in Berlin, includes a selection of Die Tödliche Doris's most significant film and video works, some of which were performed live or produced explicitly for television from 1981-84. Program duration: approximately 1 hour 20 min.

Sabine - aus meinem Tagebuch [Sabine - From My Diary], 1981, Super8, 9:27

Porno, 1982, Super8, 3:30

Berliner Küchenmusik [Berlin Kitchen Music] 1982, Super8, 5:15

Chöre und Soli [Choirs and Solos], 1984, Video, 3:40

Städtefilme Berlin-West [West Berlin, from the City Films series], Super8, 1983, 4:02

Naturkatastrophenkonzert [Natural Catastrophe Concert], WDR, Köln, 1983, Video, 3:01

Über Mutti [About Mommy] Live Konzert Paris 1983 Played Back in Berlin 1984, TV 3, Barcelona, Video, 2:10

Kavaliere [Piano], Clavel-Stiftung, Basel, 1984, Video, 6:27

Kavaliere [Piano] Live in Villingen-Schwenningen, Live Played Back in Berlin, Live Played Back in Bruxelles, Live Played Back in S'Hertogenbosch, Video, 1:49

Debut in Helgoland, Clavel-Stiftung, Basel, 1984, Video, 4:18

Zwei Witwen [Two Widows], 1984, Super-8, 1:50

before and after.....crazy and stupid and sexy music by DJ martina nie tita