#karin luner

[elektroblues]

Mania D

[anticbrvtalist]

Karin Luner, then drummer of pre Malaria ! group Mania D. Manhattan, NYC 1979

[bowiedd]

klaus nomi and karin luner at the mudd club, new york city, new york, by ilse ruppert, 1978

[ladylilitu]

Ha, of course @kunstmull is right, no reason needed to post Klaus & Karin!! 

[untergangsshow]

Mania D in New York, September 1979

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KATHRYN BIGELOW'S PUNK ROOTS

before ascending to the heights of Hollywood celebrity she was a member in good standing of the downtown punk scene of the late '70s and early' 80s. Living on Water Street, she shared a loft with filmmaker and costume designer Karin Luner in a building that also housed artist Robert Longo and rocker Hal Ludacer. Dressed in cowboy boots and jeans, she was a regular at The Mudd Club, a hub of downtown nightlife where art, music, film, media and fashion people intersected. Her student film from Columbia University -- where she took classes with Susan Sontag and Vito Acconci -- The Set-Up (1978), portrays two men (including Gary Busey) fighting each other in split-screen as semiotic provocateur Sylvae Lotringer deconstructs the images in voice over. Luner told me that she remembers Bigelow as "totally driven. She really knew what she wanted to do. One time she was working on a script of a Bataille story and she must have rewritten it 150 times; she was so determined to get it right." Her first full-length feature was The Loveless (1982), a biker movie which she co-directed with Monty Montgomery that in addition to Willem Dafoe included downtown scenesters Robert Gordon, Danny Rosen and Tina L'Hotsky with costume design by Luner.

http://www.papermag.com/kathryn-bigelows-punk-roots-1425653873.html

[uncontrol-freak]

Mania D, September '79.

[elektroblues]

Mania D styled by Karin Luner and photographed by Michael Gössling, 1979 [X]

[ladylilitu]

The fact that @kunstmull mentioned Klaus and Karin gives me good reason to post Klaus and Karin :) <3 

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Mania D: Eva Goessling, Beate Bartel. Hairstyling: Bier Karin Luner. Foto by Michael Goessling, West Berlin.

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[elektroblues]

Eva Gössling in stills from the lost Mania D Super-8 film, 1979 © Karin Luner