Directors Lounge monthly screenings

Thursday, 24 April 2014, 9pm

Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte

In attendance of the artist

Jonathan Rescigno works with a documentary approach towards his films, while transmuting into fictional stories. His starting point are day-to-day issues of his close surroundings, which then can shed the light to some greater matter. At the time he combines narrative methods with elements of early Avant-garde and Nouvelle Vague.

His search for a personal language and expression beyond the documentary school urged him to progress from earlier studies at film school to art school in Metz and further to “Film and Creative Documentaries Direction” in Strasbourg, where he finished his Master. His pictures combine a sensitive research of places and people with an essayistic image-oriented montage creating open and atmospherical depictions that give to the viewer space for interpretation.

In his films, Rescigno keeps coming back to themes concerning the region Lorraine, where he grew up. Lorraine used to be the prospering French coal mining area, connected with the German Ruhrgebiet by the so called Montanunion (European Coal and Steel Community) after the Word War II. With deindustrialization, the region has undergone difficult changes still under way. The films of the artist investigate questions of identity in the changing post-industrial landscape, and when the term migration is at risk to change meaning in French society.

Jonathan Rescigno verfolgt einen dokumentarischen Ansatz, den er aber zugleich verwandelt und fiktionalisiert. Ihn interessieren Geschichten des Alltags seiner Umgebung, die aber zugleich von allgemeiner Bedeutung sein können, und er verbindet so Mittel des narrativen, sozial engagierten Filmes mit Elementen der frühen Avantgarde und der Nouvelle Vague. Diese Suche nach einer eigenen Bildsprache brachte ihn auch dazu, von der Filmschule an die Kunsthochschule Metz zu wechseln und schließlich mit Film and Creative Documentaries Direction in Straßburg abzuschließen. Seine Bilder verbindet eine subtile Recherche von Orten und Menschen mit einem essayistischen Bildansatz in der Montage, der eher einer offenen atmosphärischen Beschreibung folgt und dem Betrachter den Spielraum zur eigenen Interpretation läßt, statt in dokumentarischer Manier Fakten zu konstruieren.

Der Künstler ist anwesend und wird in das Programm einführen. Mit anschließender Diskussion.

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Almost There: Kim Collmer in Berlin tonight

SOMETHING BIGGER THAN THE SPACE CAN CONTAIN
Kreuzberg Pavillon Saturday April 05th, 2014, 8pm

Something bigger than the space can contain brings together artists from diverse backgrounds in which shifting notions of house are played out from different perspectives: personal, political, economical and relational.

In Kim Collmer’s video, a playful miniature set house is submerged underwater and slowly descends into another realm within which text transmissions between two entities appear on the screen. Between the house’s descent and the textual inter-ference is a meditation on connection, connectivity and relation.

Artists: Kim Collmer
Jennifer Hope Davy
Timea Oravecz
Andrea Schneemeier

Kreuzberg Pavillon
Naunynstraße 53
10999 Berlin

Impressions of two days DLX

Steffen Freiling, Berlin based photographer compiled a stunning collection of snaps from just two days. Click  through to see what you missed or enjoy a blast of mermories.

Impressions of two days @ Directors Lounge Berlin 2014

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“Directors Lounge started in 2005 as an experiment, a relaxed space for filmmakers, video artists and everybody interested in experimental forms of cinema and video art, during The Berlin International Film Festival.”
(source: Directors Lounge)

This video represents my impressions of the two nights I had been at the DL. Although the main focus of the DL are short movies, there is also a stage for live performances – live music as well as live music/video/installations.

I hope that the Directors Lounge, in its tenth year now, will go in its eleventh year in 2015 – I’ll be there, for sure. And I recommend this extraordinary event to all of you, who are interested in short films, long nights, great music and amazing artists live on stage.

credits:

Footage taken on Feb 12th and Feb 15th. 

Artists on stage:
Dieter Rita Scholl with Martina Colli
Anna Aliena
Kay P. Rinha
Eberhard Kranemann with Ina Sladic
.FLICKA.

Songs and music:
1:14 – 2:10       “An jenem Tag” performed by Dieter Rita Scholl
3:39 – 5:05       Music + Installation by Eberhard Kranemann
                        Hommage to William S. Burroughs
5:08 – 7:13       Song “Sputnik”, Band .FLICKA.

steffenfreilingphotography

Directors Lounge Screening:

Karl F. Stewart
Impressions in Mind
Photographs and Video

Thursday, 27 March 2014
21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Karl F. Stewart makes a mark in digital photography and video with his saturated colors and his rigorous compositions showing urban landscapes. He works with a photographic hybrid combination between still images and videos that do not hide their origin in their photographic concept. After being a documentary photographer in the 70’s in Pittsburgh, his home town, he worked as an English lecturer in Italy for 24 years, before he took up photography again only 5 years ago, now going fully digital.

San Francisco, his next temporary residency after Italy, became his starting point for his relaunch in photography, where he mostly explored the downtown area. Not just the financial district of San Francisco, but a big part of the highly dense urban areas show an amazing economic growth with glossy surfaces and artificial contemporary green landscaping on one hand, and wide spread poverty of homeless people on the other. “The Unearthly Beauty of Simulated Nature in Contemporary Architecture” is Stewart’s most pronounced piece from that period, presented as a video-photo essay. At the same time, the artist started exploring motion-blur and photoshop cut-outs. “Impressions of Movement” is a series of panoramic works that resulted and which he continued in different countries such as USA, Italy and France. The time-based presentation of digital pictures, that seems to be natural to the medium, led to digital video as his preferred medium at the moment. The artist recently moved to Düsseldorf, where he continues exploring landscapes and urban settings in often unearthly colors. Like with “K-20”, showing a small fountain at the K 20 Museum in Düsseldorf, the examinations of urban-nature relations combined with sometimes witty surprising experiments, seem to propel his creative energy most successfully.

Artist Links:
http://kfstewart.com/
http://impressionsofmovement.com/

Links:
Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net
Full program details:
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
Z-Bar
http://www.z-bar.de

日本デ  looking for Your Japan

We will participate in this year´s 日本デ, the Japan-Day in Duesseldorf, 17 May 2014

A screening at the Black Box cinema in the Filmmuseum will be dedicated to Japan in experimental cinema and video art. Films included will cover a wide range of Japans, from fictional to historical to personal …

Screening time is limited, we will focus on works that does not exceed 15 min. running time. Deadline: 20 April 2014
If you think your film should be included, let us know

Eat, sleep, die Saturday, March 8th

Our friends from Mobile Cinema are presenting the Berlin Feminist Film Week | March 8-13, 2014 at the Babylon Cinema.

The opening movie, Eat, Sleep, Die was awarded with four Swedish national film awards, for Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Film.

Saturday, March 8th, 2014 @ 19:30
Venue : Kino Babylon Eat, sleep, die / SE / 2012 / Gabriela Pichler + Q&A with producer China Åhlander

When the forceful young Muslim Swedish/Balkan “take-no-shit” factory worker Raša loses her job, she faces the system of unemployment. With no high school diploma, no job – but her boots deeply stained with the mud of the small town she grew up in – Raša finds herself on collision course with society.

Eat, Sleep, Die was awarded with four “Guldbaggar”, the Swedish national film award, for Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Film and has been praised for showing a more realistic image of Sweden today.

After the screening, China Åhlander is present to answer questions and talk about the film.

The screening is supported by the Swedish Embassy, Berlin.

Language: Swedish with english subtitles (German on Wednesday, 12th, at 11:00 (KK))
Time: 19:30
Venue: Kino Babylon(Mitte), Saal 1
Tickets: 8€

via Berlin Feminist Film Week

Directors Lounge at shortcutz Berlin, Wed. March 5th, 8:30pm

Our friends from the shortcutz network invited us as their special guest to show a small selection of highlights from DL X, the 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge, at shortcutz Berlin.

Join us at the cozy Lagari.

Films:

Andreas Goldfuss CA Independent Film Maker 00:20 2013

Víctor Ballesteros CL VVOOLLVVOO 00:30 2013

Rhayne Vermette CA Black Rectangle 01:30 2013

Stuart Pound GB All That Passed 01:00 2013

Michael Betancourt US The Kodak Moment 02:00 2013

Sasha Waters Freyer US An Incomplete History of Pornography, 1979 08:00 2013

Liga Steda GB Block 02:23 2013

Aaron Zeghers CA Living on the Edge 03:20 2013

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

Naren Wilks GB Fear & Delight 03:20 2013 (music video | The Correspondents)

TRT 24 min

The show takes place this Wednesday, March 5th at

Lagari, Pfluegerstr 19 / corner Nansenstr.
Next to U8-Schoenleinstr!
Berlin

See you there

“I don’t think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don’t say, "I read an old book by Flaubert,” or “I saw an old play by Moliere.”“

Alain Resnais  (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014)

photo Bertrand Carriere

Andre Werner, Directors Lounge, photo: Nick Font

photo: Steffen Freiling

Victor Orozco Ramirez MX/DE “Reality 2.0”, photo: Nick Font

The 10th Berlin international Directors Lounge at Naherholung Sternchen, photo: Nick Font

[DLX], Space B, photo: Nick Font

photo: Nick Font

Herr Blum Band at the 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge, photo: Nick Font

Eberhard Kranemann and Ina Sladic – World premiere of “100 Years of Paranoia.” at the 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge, photo: Steffen Freiling

Exploring Erdal Inci’s “Taksim Spiral”, photo: Nick Font

Flicka at the 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge, photo: Steffen Freiling

First impressions of the 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DLX],
6 – 16 February 2014

Many, many thanks to Nick Font and Steffen Freiling Photography for their amazing works. Please keep credits intact. (Click image)

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