Directors Lounge Festival

Tues 11 | 9pm | space B

Reynold Reynolds, a personal presentation

The Secrets Trilogy; a cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life.
All three works of the Trilogy deal with Time and Space.

Six Easy Pieces (2010) is the last work of the trilogy and is based on the book “Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher” by Richard P. Feynman.
It brings together the foundations of:
Film as the Seventh Art; a superb conciliation of the ‘Rhythms of Space’ and the ‘Rhythms of Time’ -Ricciotto Canudo
and
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.” -Gottfried Leibniz.

Six Easy Pieces deconstructs film as the perfect synthesis of art and technology. Connecting art and science, as it romantically refers to an age when artists and scientists had similar concerns and were often one and the same person.

Secret Machine (2009) the second work explores these fundamental issues taking the 19th century scientist Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic experiments of motion sequences as a starting point. Reynolds reflects on the radical change in the understanding of Time and Space as developed in film and photography’s relationship to measurement, science, and the human body.

In Secret Life (2008) the first of the three-part cycle, a woman is trapped in an apartment filled with moving plants. She moves at a mechanical speed and her mind functions like a clock whose hands pin the events of her life to the tapestry of time. Her thoughts escape her and come to life, growing like the plants that inhabit the space around her: living, searching, feeling, breathing and dying. Reynolds suggests that all living things are endowed with consciousness. Philosophically and scientifically, the concept of time has been extensively discussed and investigated, yet its real nature remains unresolved; it has proven more mysterious and profound than life itself.

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pictured: Still from Six Easy Pieces, 2010

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

Wed 12 | 9:30pm | space B

We are going to party together with Cross Art Berlin, a new Berlin, Zuerich based gallery with a focus on unconventional art from the fields of subculture, bizarre eroticism and underground.

The night starts with a special cross art presentation:

Thomas Bröse DE Seelig 36:33 2013 IA

The director and all actors will be present.

Special guests Kay P. Rinha and Anna Aliena (actor from film “Seelig” and performer and singer)

Later we dive into a night of decadence with Dieter Rita Scholl accompanied by Italian import pianist Martin Colli.

At the turntables: DJ Petra Flurr

From then on the lunatics will take over

Petra Flurr

SEELIG is a black-white movie with a surrealistic content. It starts with a classical story and break over to a surrealistic journey, similar to a drogue trip. The central figure is “the joker”, who obsessed the other actors´s soul and is kidnapping them to an absud, crazy and wild world of dreams. The roles aren’ t gender determinated, women are also playing classical male roles. The film is made in a very simple and unperfect style, it constists of beautiful arranged single scenaries and specially composed music. 

pictured: cross art Berlin, Petra Flurr, still from Seelig by Thomas Bröse.

DL X program

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