Ain’t Nothing Without You (Nicht nichts ohne Dich) – New York Screening December 14, 2024

Q&A with director Pia Frankenberg

Metrograph New York
Saturday December 14 2:40pm

Info and Tickets

This screening is part of the series „AN ALTERNATE CINEMA – 5 FILMS FROM THE DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK ARCHIVES AT BERLINALE“
The titans of prewar Expressionism and New German Cinema have never lacked for repertory programming slots, but the riches of German film culture don’t stop there, as this series of deep cuts from the Deutsche Kinemathek Archives—including films released from the 1960s to the 1990s—decisively proves. Bringing together such works as Christoph Schlingensief’s splatterhouse reunification era satire The German Chainsaw Massacre(1990), and the East Coast restoration premieres of Pia Frankenberg’s tongue-in-cheek charmer Ain’t Nothin’ Without You (1985) and Michael Brynntrup’s punky avant-garde Super 8 Biblical epic Jesus – Der Film (1985), “An Alternate Cinema”—adapted from a program that played the 74th Berlin International Film Festival—is a tribute to German films made outside mainstream production channels, brimming with outsider adventurousness and anything-goes daring.