The Posters Came from the Walls

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Our screening on December 1st at the Clapham Picture House in London is currently sold out .. but there are plenty of other places to see it on or near that date! Please check with individual venues for screening times and in case of any schedule changes:

Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge

Belmont, Aberdeen

Cameo, Edinburgh

Cinema City, Norwich

Electric, Birmingham

Exeter Picturehouse

FACT, Liverpool

Greenwich Picturehouse

Harbour Lights, Southampton

Phoenix, Oxford

Ritzy, Brixton

Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle

York Picturehouse

also at Hyde Park, Leeds on December 3rd

Nice review in Time Out this week, either click on the scan or read it online here:

Two small screenings of the film in Germany – one in Hamburg, one in Berlin – as part of the Unerhoert Music Film Festival. Hopefully director Nick Abrahams will introduce the film at the Berlin screening.

Both screenings will be the english language versions – so we hope you can understand and read english as a lot of the film is either in english or with english subtitles.

So, the Hamburg screening is on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 9 p.m. at the cinema 3001 Kino at Schanzenstraße 75, 20357 Hamburg

and then one in Berlin on Sunday December 13th at 6pm at the Eiszeit Theatre

more details on Berlin program here and here

Screening at 7pm on December 1st at the Clapham Picture House
followed by Q and A session with the Directors and Very Special guests
and DJs in the bar afterwards inc the legendary Arthur Baker and Nervous Stephen

please come, enjoy the film and have a chat and a drink with us afterwards!

Go to December 1st on the Clapham Picture House website here

Article from www.cambridge-news.co.uk

Read the article in full here

See screening page for details, but the film is showing across the UK at a special preview on Tuesday December 1st. Please check with individual venues for screening times. Also a very special screening at the Clapham Picture house on December 1st at 7pm with a Q and A with the directors and Very Special guests, plus DJs in bar afterwards.

Please come along and let us know what you think of it!

If you’ve seen our film, you’ll know all about Depeche Mode’s astonishing concert in Communist East Berlin in 1988.

The photo above is of some of the fans at the concert, it really looks like it could have been taken in the 1960s. It was as if Beatlemania had broken out!

I will credit the photographer when I can find his details. He took some other great images from the gig, which are included in our film.

Here’s a clip of the concert itself, I remember seeing this when we were researching our film. There’s an interview with Dave Gahan and Alan Wilder – although its in German and there’s no subtitles I’m afraid. The only proper footage from the concert is the wide shot at the start – and the music isn’t actually from the concert! This was East Germany before the wall came down, and they only had one camera to film the concert with. The concert footage at the end is apparently from another TV show that Depeche performed on. 

depeche mode 7.märz 1988 Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle

Praxis Dr. McCoy | MySpace Video

The concert was astonishing for a number of reasons. For an alternative band to play in East Berlin was groundbreaking. You couldn’t buy tickets for the concert, you had to ‘win’ them. 

Part of the reason for their large following was a greatest hits compilation that was released in East Germany on the Amiga record label in 1987:

For more of a taste of the concert, and some first hand accounts of how some boys from Basildon effected people’s lives around the world, see our film!

Some images from the sold out screening during the Frieze Art Fair, presented with Artprojx. The cinema exterior with the name we would have liked for the film, ‘OUR HOBBY IS DEPECHE MODE’

The directors introduce the screening

The screening is packed

Co-director Nick Abrahams and Mark, one of the stars of the film, compare hats

The poster literally came from the wall as the temptation proves too much for one devotee, who makes off with one of the images from the film displayed outside the cinema

The directors have a momentary loss of dignity

photos 1,2,4 and 5 copyright Sarah Lee

photos 3 and 6 copyright David Gryn, Artprojx