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 Charming and Quaint Tale of Brutal Revenge by Neil Needleman
Behind the charming, quaint, and pastoral facade of this video is a serious psychodrama about my fear of unemployment. And the older I get… Well, you get the idea.
Continue reading “A Charming and Quaint Tale of Brutal Revenge by Neil Needleman”
Nina Hartmann “Harry Me” (2019, 5 min 34s) was shown in world premiere at our C.A.R. Video Lounge at the contemporary art ruhr art fair, October 2019.
The film combined fantastic surrealistic imagery and intriguing symbolism, which evinced a unique aesthetic vision’. London Short Film Festival 2012
Continue reading “Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing! by Fritz Stolberg”
A night at a deli.
Night and Day was shown in World premiere as part of the opening of DL 8 | The Berlin International Directors Lounge
In Dreams is an experimental documentary that visualises the dreams of ordinary individuals. I asked 4 people to discuss their most vivid, memorable dream. The film is my final year graduation film from Northumbria University.
“The crying swallow flies at dawn”
Pure japanese poetry, entirely filmed in the deserts of Nevada.
Continue reading “Mannaka No Ie (The House In The Middle) by André Werner”
The multilayered, feature-length (2h 04) epos is based on the works by Leо Tolstoy and A. Chekhov, yet, the action is shifted to our reality.
The Conversation is a silent interaction between two offline characters. Mundane, inane and without any real direction they “converse” about trying to locate something relatively abstract. Shuffling between various colored papers which reference computer visualization devices in their simplest state, the Conversation draws attention to the abstract substance many of our conversations now do or do not follow.
In a surreal future, humanity has been transformed beyond any and all recognition by the echo chambers of social media. Shot entirely on iPhone 7 in the Montréal underground, FILTRATE is an exploration of digital connectivity and physical isolation.
“The scientific term “Paroniria” means: morbid dreams, strange nightmares, bizarre dreams.”