City of Lost Souls
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City of Lost Souls

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City of Lost Souls

City of Lost Souls

Original Title: Stadt der verlorenen Seelen
Fri
15
Fri 15 Nov 9:00 PM

ACMI Cinema 2
Wheelchair
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 15+
94 Mins | West Germany
November
Fri 15 Nov


This riotous and massively ahead-of-its-time, intersectional queer-New Wave musical went on to greatly influence trans politics. Centred around a squalid Berlin burger joint and the ragtag group of multiracial Americans, of a range of gender identities and sexual persuasions, who work there, prodigious activist-filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim’s underground classic is equal parts Paul Morrissey-Andy Warhol, John Waters and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with lashings of satirical Cold War intrigue, searing political commentary and regular demolitions of the fourth wall. Also to be seen and heard in Jubilee, punk rock icon Jayne County – in a gloriously unrestrained performance for the ages – and legendary drag performer Angie Stardust lead the cast, with many of them playing themselves, after a fashion...

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November
Fri 15 Nov

ACMI Cinema 2

Federation Square, Flinders Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000