Directors Lounge Festival

Fri 7 | 8:30pm | space B

When you see an X in the title of the festival, you know what to do. You go through all the good films about human physical interaction and pile them up in a program. Some of them are about having sex, some of them are about not having sex, some are about love, puberty or just booty. Not all are experimental, but all work well in their own way. Enjoy the ride!

Jenni Toivoniemi FI The Date 2012 07’10’’
A film about a date between three people. And two cats.

Robert Arnold US The Morphology of Desire 1998 05’45’’
The Morphology of Desire uses digital morphing to animate pulp romance novel cover illustrations as a never-ending dance of unrealized desire.

Victor Lindgren SE Undress Me 2012 / 15’00’’
Mikaela has undergone gender reassignment surgery and is now a woman. One night in a bar she meets a guy and takes him home. Sexual objectification becomes a ‘playing doctors’ situation, each wanting the other to take the first step. A film about masculinity and femininity, and how we exist through the way others see us.

Julia Kowalski  FR Chamber Music 2012 23’00’’
Rose is twelve. She spends her holidays in a classical music camp. By day, she plays the flute in an orchestra. At night, she’s sharing her room with two sixteen years old violonists. By proxy, Rose tries to get out of childhood…

Harald Schleicher DE You Freud — Me Jane 2013 / 12’23’’
Dreams are said to be the royal road to the unconscious. The cinema, which itself has time and again been metaphorically equated to the dream, has always shaped them. Dreams: an internal canvas, like a cinema in your head, in film as a representation between convention and experiment.

Peter Modestij SE 102A: Couple Fucking 2013 14’00’’
A man buys a couple fucking. But every action has consequences.

Jenni Hiltunen FI Grind 2012 04’03’’
Dancehall Queen Style is a Jamaican dance fashion which became popular in the 1990s through music videos and The Grind show on MTV. The video is a playful take on the dancehall culture with its provocative costumes, suggestive poses, roles and blatant sexuality.

selected by Alexei Dmitriev

DL X program.

pictured: Robert Arnold Morphology of Desire 1998.

TRT 82 min

WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance

Fri 7 | 10pm | stage

The charismatic & exceptional queerpunk musician Petra Flurr, recipient of the Best Queer Act and Best Lo-Fi awards for the video of Terror-ist at the BMVA 2013, live on stage.

DL X program.

pictured: Petra Flurr.

Sat 8 | 6pm | space A

Special guest: Kim Collmer, curator and director

Steven Subotnick US Hairyman 03:00 1998

Peter Larson SE Seven Days In The Woods 06:17 2010

Laura Heit US The Deep Dark 07:07 2011

Alexandre Louvenaz FR Minotaure 03:36 2012

Atushi Wada JP The Great Rabbit 07:10 2012

Merlin Flügel DE vom Verschwinden 02:57 2011

Benedikt Kruger, Sebastian Lörscher, Xaver Xylophon DE Zyklus I, 01:40 2011

Falk Schuster DE Ast mit Last 05:00 2011

Manuel Barenboim US/AR Here Be Dragons 07:07 2012

Tess Martin US A Walk in the Woods 01:00 2012

TRT 45 min

DL X program

order is subject to change
pictured: Hairyman; Seven days in the Woods; The Deep Dark

WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance

Sat 8 | 10:30pm | stage

Birthday flowers, Herr Blum live on stage.

R. Galenza

pictured: Thomas Wagner on stage.

TRT 60 min