with screenings of The Nomi Song + Visitors
(Sun 23rd / 8pm / £4/3)

The Nomi Song is director Andrew Horn's strange and fascinating
documentary about the late New Wave singer and art object, Klaus Nomi. An androgenous, trained countertenor from Berlin singing pop music like opera, he was on the verge of international fame when he tragically became one of the first gay artists to die of AIDS in 1983. The film is a riveting time capsule of late 70s and early 80s New York punk Bohemia, also featuring music by David Bowie, Wire, The Marbles, Pylon, and Chi Pig.

Visitors is Deborah Schamoni's surreal 2005 film starring Berlin band Chicks on Speed, who arrive as aliens in New York City, becoming homeless. The band have gained critical acclaim as artists in the fields of pop music, painting, graphic design, fashion, and live art. The three members started as a fake band at the Munich Art Academy in 1997 before taking the music world by storm. The most important element in their work is dialogue and the cross fertilisation of art mediums with music.