Tonight’s delight is one of the first sexually implicit films to be produced in the history of cinema: "Die Buechse der Pandora" (Pandora's Box) by Wilhelm Pabst (1929, silent, black&white).

The evening will begin with a poetic-erotic reading, and is followed by a screening of the film, accompanied by a bespoke score performed live by the Cube Orchestra. What else can convey sensuality so fittingly if not a word passing over lips, and music to fill the heart?

"Lulu, the protagonist of "Pandora's Box" portrayed by Louise Brooks, lives beyond the constraints of time. She was radiant, outrageous - an icon of modernity ... She challenged sexual conventions, and became a screen seductress like no other - not through the traditional devices of the femme fatale, but rather through her bold, kittenish innocence.

This portrayal of innocence is largely what makes her performance both powerful and unique. She's outrageously excessive and provocative, but because she engenders such sympathy, we cannot fail to identify with her. In a sense, she seduces us as she seduces the men whom she encounters.”

Be invited.