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All screenings by Directors Lounge
The programme of The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2013.
Here you´ll find all films, events and everything that will take place during the 11 days from 7. to 17. February (more or less)
Remember, DL is chaos in progress, everything is subject to change.
Directors Lounge Screening:
Guillaume Cailleau
Bolex, Loves and Other Measures
16mm and Live Super-8 Performance
Thursday, 29 November 2012
9:00 pm
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte
Guillaume Cailleau bridges conceptual working methods with playful references to the avant-garde. This playful mix of forms, expanded cinema, experiments with human perception, and poetic compositions makes the viewing experience very enjoyable for its richness. His sincerity, combined with a joyful wink of the artist’s eye add to this impression. Explorations – or games – with color separation, the basics of color photography, are as much part his artistic arsenal as the lyric beauty of rich black and white contrast of high-con film combined associatively on an optical printer.
The artist will perform live, and will be available for Q&A.
Artist Links:
http://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-1910-guillaume-cailleau
Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de
Detailed Program Infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesGCailleau.html
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La Magique Noire: Movie Night at Platoon Kunsthalle
Monday Nov. 19th 8pm
This will be the first of an ongoing row of collaborations with Platoon Kunsthalle. We will spice up the Movie Nights with assorted shorts from our archive.
This Movie Night combines Bar25: Days out of Time by Britta Mischer, Nana Yuriko with La Magique Noire by Aloura M. Charles.
La Magique Noire
A tourist in 1930’s Paris wanders into La Magique Noire Café and finds himself in the company of a mysterious Mulatto woman. As they share absinthe, the tourist soon realizes things in this magical bar are not as they seem!
Starring Adam Johnson, Phyllis Johnson and Lia Johnson
Official Selection: Mill Valley Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, Coney Island Film Festival
Bar25
worlds away from society’s conventions and norms, Bar25 became the melting pot from which a truly Berlin culture emerged. fhe film follows the creators of Bar25, four young individuals whose freewheeling way of life, of music, individuality and never ending energy transforms a riverside wasteland into a fantasy land by the river Spree. but if the community’s life appears fulfilling from the outside, living it day after day isn’t easy. Bar 25 is a wonderland-night-and-day-club in Berlin, an enchanted adventure playground where adults become children again.
the film investigates the ambivalence of the community, of these so-called ‘business hippies’, questioning whether their form of living is valuable and authentic or if their hedonistic never-ending parties are a mere form of escapism.
kunsthalle/berlin
Schoenhauser allee 9
10119 berlin . Germany
U2 to Senefelder Platz, walk south (2min)
U2, M8, Bus 142 to Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, walk north (2min)
U8 to Rosenthaler Platz, walk east (6min)
Directors Lounge Screening:
Thorsten Fleisch
Berlin Premiere
Hex Suffice Cache Ten
A surreal escape of a disintegrating mind into neon-lit nightmares from a discarded future.
plus 16mm Filmprogramm
Selected from his private Educational Film Archive
Thursday, 1 November 2012
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte
Hex Suffice Cache Ten
Produced by Thorsten Fleischcinematography, Script & Music by Thorsten Fleisch
Starring Lise Ivanouw, Daniel Scheimberg, Timo Fleisch and Thorsten Fleisch
Length: 12:42 minutes / Format: HD / Year: 2012
Synopsis:
A surreal escape of a disintegrating mind into neon-lit nightmares from a discarded future. Suddenly interferences from sub-particle proliferation occur within the protagonist’s body, a transformation can’t be avoided.
This exploration of cinematic space within an implosion of cerebral space is a daring tale of aliens, experiments on humans, video games and mutation. It is showering the unsuspecting viewer in handmade visual and aural stimuli from planet Fleisch.
Artist Links:
http://www.fleischfilm.com
Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de
More detailed program infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesThorstenHex.html
Directors Lounge Screening:
Phlipp Hartmann | f.k.flumen
Von der Notwendigkeit dessen
Video
With guest Jan Eichberg
Thursday, 27 September 2012
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte
Von der Notwendigkeit dessen (whereby according to necessity)
Philipp Hartmann, whose short film comedies about Karlsruhe called “Der Anner” (“the other, there” in Southern Dialect) have been audience favorites on festivals, also works in very different styles with film, preferably with Super-8, and with much more subtle humor. Tracking the traces of Alexander Humboldt or his grandfather in Latin America, reflecting on the physical-poetical conditions of condensation trails in the sky, or recording the last remnants of an old lady who passed away, he always combines documentary with fictional approaches in such subversive, subtle ways that the viewer at the same time may be following the “movies of his own mind” or his own associations while watching these films. In addition, Philipp Hartmann will present Jan Eichberg as guest artist in the program, who creates short narratives in similar aesthetic ways. Both artists with be present and available for Q&A.
Artist Links:
http://flumenfilm.de
Jan Eichberg
http://www.elephantterrible.com/en/jan-eichberg/
Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de
FULL FRONTAL: Short Attack
Short Attack, the monthly selection of fine shorts by our friends at interfilm, will be screened Wednesday, 12th September 2012 at Babylon Berlin.
As always, you can expect a delicate selection including favs from Directors Lounge like Max Hattler´s iconic collision and David Downes poetic Generation.
OIL
Oleg Serdyuk, Ukraine 2012, Animation / Kurzspielfilm,2 min
LUMINARIS
Juan Pablo Zaramella, Argentinen 2011, Animation,6 min
D´UNE RARE CRUDITÉ
Marion Szymczak, Emilien Davaud, Jérémy Mougel, Frankreich 2010, Animation,6 min
COLLISION
Max Hattler, Deutschland/England 2005, Animation,2:30 min
GENERATION
David Downes, Neuseeland 2004, Experimental,13 min
DENIÈRE INVENTION
Lolo Zazar, Frankreich 1998, Stop Motion,8 min
THE LOST THING
Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan, Australien 2010, Animation,15 min
THE CATHEDRAL / KATEDRA
Tomasz Baginski, Polen 2002, Animation,6:30 min
METACHAOS
Alessandro Bavari, Italien 2010, Animation, 8:30 min
CALDERA
Evan Viera, USA 2011, Animation,11:30 min
BABYLON, Wednesday 12th September, 8pm
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Directors Lounge @ Network – C.A.R., Zaha, Seoul
We will participate at the “Network – C.A.R. exhibition” at the Zaha Museum, Seoul.
The Network – C.A.R. exchange project was initiated by the art fair Contemporary Art Ruhr and takes place from September 14 till October 14, 2012, parallel to the Korean International Art Fair (KIAF).
participating artists: Andreas Mueller-Pohle, Julia Murakami, Susanna Schoenberg, Alan Smithee, Andre Werner
Network – C.A.R., the innovative art fair
Opening: September 14, 2012
Exhibition: September 14 – October 14, 2012,Tuesday till Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm
Location: Zaha Museum, 362-21 Buam-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Southkorea
Directors Lounge Screening:
Rigoletti
Live Punkt Null
Video, Performance
Thursday, 30 August 2012
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte
Rigoletti Live Punkt Null – Live Point Zero
LIVE at DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This evening with Rigoletti alias Marion Pfaus will be a mixture of screening and performance. Rigoletti, who claims to have been granted the titel “the most unknown pop-star”, has made quite a name for herself. With her lively, busting ways, she has gained presence on a multitude of platforms and media.
To call her filmmaker would not be the right term, Rigoletti “makes videos”. She both addresses the media itself – “16:9 Full HD” is an ironical and media-political discussion of the “new media” high definition video, which uses the form of educational film – and she addresses themes ranging from mundane to politically charged topics such as the founding of “Humboldt 21”, an association she is promoting. “Humboldt 21” shall already be concerned with the planing and preparation of the demolition and remediation of the not yet built remake of the “Berlin City Castle” in the center of Berlin, which will be called “Humboldt Forum”. As experience teaches, buildings on this site would not last for very long, she argues, and remediations could be complicated and expensive, as the demolition of the “Palast der Republik”, the former GDR parliament building on this very site, has shown. It is thus a due task to have an early start with planing the demolition of the coming remake of the city castle. Such ironic interventions in public themes, seemingly trivial or stuck in concealed oppositions (like the castle discussion), are typical for Marion Pfaus. She such subversively questions the doxa, the prevailing opinion (not to be mistaken with common sense). Presented with dry humor and blazing dilettantism, the artist also makes clear her objectives are her serious concerns.
The artist, who studied media design, also works and publishes in other media. In collaboration with her colleague Felicia Zeller, she published online projects such as http://www.landessexklinik.de (State Sex Hospital) and the CD-ROM “Mut der Ahnungslosen” (Courage of the Ignorant). In 2006 her novel “Aus den Memoiren ein Verblühenden” (Memoirs of an Early Withering Flower) is published as book + CD.
Parts of her video work will be shown, the artist will perform live her concept of “Fremdbloggen” (third party blogging), and she will give a performance about the founding of the association “Humboldt 21” including the plans for the remediation of Humboldt Forum.
Artist Links:
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L’Altra Faccia Della Luna: Directors Lounge a L’Isola Del Cinema
part I, July 22nd, 2012, 7 pm – 9 pm, Cinelab Groupama, Isola Tiberina, Roma
Join us for a special selection of fine films, curated and presented by Julia Murakami and André Werner. Screened in the very heart of Rome as part of Iolanda La Carrubba’s project L’Altra Faccia Della Luna.
The icing on the cake will be the attendance Nadya Cazan, female lead in “The Eyes Of Mankind” and long time member of Team DL.
Part II next Sunday, 29th July, same place, same time.
full program here
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