EXBlicks: City of Lost Souls

In keeping with the theme of this month’s issue, April’s EXBlicks presents Rosa von Praunheim’s 1983 classic CITY OF LOST SOULS, showcasing the cult director’s early-era low-budget and campy style as applied to the edgy nightlife of West Berlin in a musical about a group of misfits (sexually, gender-wise and other) who work at Hamburger Queen. Starring transsexual performer Angie Stardust, transsexual punk legend Jayne County and a host of Americans speaking German with terrible accents, City presents more configurations of sexuality and gender than you can shake a sequined dress at, all while exploring West Berlin as a newly hip and international city. Communist TV stars, voodoo magic, a spiderweb sex lair and more, all laden with some sharp political commentary, await you in an underground romp through the Mauerstadt. Join us, in cooperation with realeyz. tv, for a screening of the film with English subs and an appearance by Von Praunheim himself to field the Q&A. And, of course, complimentary wine.