To bring the Christmas period to a close, Ms Vaginal Davis is showing Michael Curtiz’s musical classic WHITE CHRISTMAS (USA 1954) on December 29: two war comrades (Bing Crosby und Danny Kaye), who have now become a successful Broadway duo, have to help their former general out of a jam. His hotel is chronically under-booked, with a Christmas show supposed to get business going again. Yet the unusually warm weather, lack of snow and romantic entanglements of the singing stars are just some of the hurdles to be cleared on the way to success. After the film: post-Christmas drinks with Ms Davis!

This time, the public screening of a film from the Arsenal archive is being organized by the DFG graduate school “Visibility and Visual Production: Hybrid Forms of Iconic Knowledge.” In the rarely screened film EROSU + GYAKUSATSU (Eros + Massacre, Yoshishige Yoshida, Japan 1969), Japanese anarchism in the ’20s meets the student life of the late ’60s. The central focus is the love relationships of the anarchist Ōsugi Sakae, who was assassinated by the military, with three women, each of whom has a different claim over what Ōsugi stood for. This in turn also interests two students who have been influenced by Ōsugi’s ideas about life, for example looking into what the politics of free love is all about.