Sun, Jan 11, 7 pm: Berlin, World Capital of Negativity

[Pirate Cinema Bombay]

                                                             Pirate  
Cinema Bombay
                                              Berlin, World Capital of  
Negativity
                                                               Sunday,  
January 11
                                                                     7  
pm - 10 pm
                                                             www.piratecinema.org

                                                              Ticket  
of No Return
                                                      directed by  
Ulrike Ottinger
                                             with Tabea Blumenschein,  
Nina Hagen,
                                           Eddie Constantine, Martin  
Kippenberger
                                                           1979, 110  
mins, 1.4 GB

                                                                        
Possession
                                                     directed by  
Andrzej Zulawski
                                                 with Isabelle Adjani,  
Sam Neill,
                                                 Margit Carstensen,  
Heinz Bennent
                                                             1981, 120  
mins, 1 GB

                                                                      
CAMP Rooftop
                                                              301 Alif  
Apartments
                                                                34A  
Chuim Village
                                                                        Khar 
  West
                                                                 www.camputer.org

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BERLIN, name - polabian: "swamp", vulgar: "built on sand"; a "political
abstraction" (Maurice Blanchot), a "position from which there is no  
escape"
(Joseph Goebbels), a "conglomerate of calamities" (Frank Wedekind), a  
"curse"
(Alfred Döblin); an "attitude of defiance mingled with self- 
conceit" (Walter
Benjamin), the political condition of being "poor but sexy" (Klaus  
Wowereit)

NEGATIVITY, noun - organized negation, collective expression of  
antagonism,
denial or refutation, application of destructive forces within a  
political
struggle that is not aimed at a positive goal and usually directed  
against the
state and its organs; critical negativity - to employ the power of  
negation in a
critical situation: "I have been hit by a taxi", "my wife has left  
me", etc.;
dialectical negativity - the negatively dialectical reversal of the  
concept of
negative dialectics, negativity applied to itself, affirming - but  
refusing to
accept as total or self-identical - the object of negation: "no  
future", "punk's
not dead" etc.; historical-political negativity - any sustained  
political effort
that aims to make the sum of a specific historical process less than  
zero.
Commonly cited causes of negativity: bad weather, bad food, bad  
housing, the
Great Depression, the Cold War, the German Reunification (see: Berlin)

TO CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF A CITY, expression - 1. to drink oneself to  
death: to
capture the spirits of a city (to never return from a city); 2. to  
find the
monster one's wife is having an affair with: to chase the ghosts of a  
city (to
be possessed by a city); 3. to build a wall around a city (see:  
negativity)

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