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<-- back                                                             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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                      ()                                                                      ><                                                             pirate cinema bombay                                                             sundays from 7 to 10                                                             www.piratecinema.org <-- back