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Neco Çelik’s color-saturated window into the Berlin underground in all its youthful, rebellious urgency follows members of three scenes: graffiti, breakdancing, and hip-hop. Kasper and Danger are two graffiti artists ousted from their gangs. Madlen and Ozan (the latter played by Çelik) try to launch their record label with a group of elusive, basement-dwelling street rappers. And breakdancer B-Boy Buelent’s fiancée wants him to focus less on his headspins and helicopters and more on their wedding. Çelik, once a sprayer himself in a Berlin gang, gives a documentary quality to the film; the camera work, the color, and the sense that these aren’t actors create an of-the-street immediacy. And the city provides a sober, solemn backdrop for characters who feel the constant need to keep glancing over their shoulder. Çelik brings the sprayers, the breakdancers, and the rappers together at a party at the end, but instead of being didactic or preachy (rah rah graffiti, etc.), the film simply expresses what this type of life is like. Çelik will be present at this special screening. (83 minutes)
BY NINA MACLAUGHLIN
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