STATIONS
Feb. 1984 Berlin Berlinale (Delphi)
(Premiere)
Oct. 1984 Llubljana Yugoslavian Science Fiction Film Festival
1984 Decoder Handbuch published by Trikont Verlag
(limited edition 1.000 copies only)
April 1985 New York Danceteria
April 1985 San Francisco Video Free America
April 1985 Los Angeles Anti Club
April 1985 San Diego Pink&Pearl Gallery
May 1985 Milano Leoncavallo
1985 Decoder Soundtrack released on LP
(WhatsSoFunnyAbout / Indigo)
March 1986 Milano Leoncavallo
1986 Japanese Video Release
(Unauthorized bootleg, with japanese subtitles)
May 1986 Berlin filmkunst 66
(Screening after reading by William S.Burroughs)
June 1986 Start of film distribution in Germany
(first run in app. 30 cities)
March 1987 Leuven Filmfestival (Netherlands)
August 1989 London Scala
(simultaneuos live translation by TOPY)
1989 Video released by Jettisoundz, UK
(now "Visionary", VHS available in PAL and NTSC)
Oct. 1989 Seattle Coca (Center Of Contemporaray Art)
Oct. 1990 Leipzig Nato (Klub Nationale Front)
1990 Decoder Soundtrack released on CD (Indigo)
1990 Decoder travels to Greece, Israel, Brazil and India
as part of a Goethe Institut film program
May 1991 Trento/Bozen Cyberpunk Festival
March 1995 Mt. Vernon, Ohio Kenyon College
July 1995 Berlin Galerie Peking (Prenzlauer Berg)
(Maeck Retro)
Feb. 1996 Video released in Italy
(with Italian subtitles and booklet)
April 1996 Torino Gay&Lesbian Film Festival
April 1996 Milano Centro Sociale Conquetta
Sept. 1996 Venedig Biennale
(The Beat Goes On - Retro)
Nov. 1996 Goeteborg Music-Filmfestival
June 1997 Duesseldorf CultD Days of Pleasure: Bambi Cinema
June 1997 New York Void Club
16mm and 35mm film copies are available at Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin
After man picks up live toad off keyboard, remove all sights of toad being squeezed to death in his hand, resuming to see it thrown over his shoulder. Cruel infliction of pain and suffering on captive animals in films is illegal by British law, and this entire sequence must therefore be re-cut so animal is simply lifted off keyboard and thrown away. (BBFC, 1989)