contemporary art and media
Trapped at home, all alone, bored by news and netflix? Directors Lounge to the rescue!
We serve you an ever-growing selection of films we screened to bring you through these surreal times. Turn on, tune in and check back for more to come.
Stay happy, healthy and at home. Enjoy #DLatHome.
#DLatHome is a selection of films and videos that we screened in the real world and are publicly available. All films here can be seen on their respective hosting platform (vimeo, youtube …) as well. Like to add your movie to the show? Send us a link.
A simple but oblique look at the illusory nature of television.
As a multitude of mesmerising televisual images race pas our eyes, there is a simple, but simultaneously baffling, explanation to the technology that brought moving images to your screens. As You See takes us on a curious and intoxicating journey into the illusory nature of television, and the fault in our eyes that makes it possible.
Gary, a robotics engineer, has developed a domestic android named Mona. He brings the humanoid robot home to carry out some tests. How will Gary ‘s wife Marie react?
“Silence is the most powerful scream”
[THE SECRET] was screened in world premiere at DL8 | The Berlin International Directors Lounge.“Coleman Miller is destined for admiration and great poverty.”
– Isabella Rossellini
“It put a bouquet of flowers on the concept of the experimental film.”
– Ed Ruscha
A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth’s core to save humanity.
A funeral director searches for purpose in a job that consistently incapacitates him with grief.
A fragment taken from an well known Science Fiction film is prematurely
aged to a time when there was no film sound other than piano accompaniment.
“Time has not been kind to Kasimir Malevich’s painting, Black Square. In 1915 when the work was first displayed the surface of the square was pristine and pure; now the black paint has cracked revealing the white ground like mortar in crazy paving.”
This film documents a tedious process of dismantling and reassembling 16 mm found footage. The film collage imitates functions of a curtain, while the recorded optical track describes the film’s subsequent destruction during its first projection.
The most fun you can have with your censor bars on.
Music by the BPA ( The Brighton Port Authority) featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal.
Krautrock pioneer Klaus Dinger sadly passed away in 2008, but we haven’t heard the last of the former Kraftwerk member/Neu! co-founder/La Düsseldorf leader. In his later years, Dinger worked on a collaborative project under his La Düsseldorf banner that spawned the album Japandorf. Continue reading “UDON by Usaginingen (Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF)”