contemporary art and media
All our screenings at the Z-Bar, Berlin-Mitte, Bergstr.2
Directors Lounge Screening, Z-Bar Thursday, 30. May, 9pm Berlin based artist Renata Daguerre presents films and videos from Córdoba, Argentina, Rotterdam and Berlin at a Directors Lounge Screening at Z-Bar. Many of Renata Daguerre’s films are essentially portraits. They don’t elaborate on psychological dramatization, rather, we could call them short vignettes of individuals who live …
Directors Lounge Matinee at Z-Bar Sunday, 19 May 2024, 17:00 trailer 1:1 Telemach Wiesinger, a long-term contributor to various Directors Lounge events, is coming from South Germany (Riegel, close to Freiburg) for a special film matinée at Z-Bar. Wiesinger works exclusively with analogue film, which he shoots, treats by means of an animation stand and …
Special Directors Lounge Screening: Bruno Gularte Barreto – 5 Casas (Five Houses) Sunday, 25 February 2024, 5:30 p.m. Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte This Sunday, Brazilian artist Bruno Gularte Barreto will present his film “5 Casas”. The documentary was first presented at IDFA in Amsterdam; this will be the German premiere. The visually breathtaking …
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The dark forces, occult magic or secret ceremonies exert a strong attraction and awaken the unconscious in us. Aleister Crowley, Nikola Tesla and Kenneth Anger have been a source of inspiration for many filmmakers. … read more
/ German version below / Directors Lounge Screening: Fotofilm – photography as film – Thursday, October 26, 2023 9 p.m. Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte Film is often associated with the moving image. The works showcased here defy this convention; they are films narrated using individual images and not using the traditional technique of …
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Directors Lounge Screening: Verena Kyselka | Sound of Traces, Thursday, 29 September 2022, Z-Bar / Deutsche Version unten / Berlin-based artist Verena Kyselka often works in collaboration with other artists, or even with amateurs. Her art projects have taken her to artist residencies in the Arab and Asian regions. There, she seeks for contacts …
Directors Lounge Screening: Mélissa Faivre, Parallel Perceptions, Thursday, 30 June 22, Z-Bar Mélissa Faivre, born 1989 in France, is an experimental video artist based in Berlin. Mélissa Faivre creates a world of her own, a video cosmos that combines the micro and macro world in a stream of images like in a flush of expanded …
Directors Lounge screening: Markus Soukup, return and detour. Thursday, May 26, Z-Bar Artist Markus Soukup was living in Liverpool and London for 17 years. Over the course of time, he has been working with video with a diversity of different media concepts, using stop-motion, split screen, associative montage, and creating his own music and sound …
Directors Lounge Screening Theo Thiesmeier A Simple Way and other Shorts Thursday, 28 April 2022 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte Berlin filmmaker and photographer Theo Thiesmeier presents his newest film accompanied with a program of shorts. The base of the artist’s filmmaking has been the close perceptions through the camera recorded with analogue film. …
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Braquage, Sunday Matinée, 6 March 2022, 5pm, Z-Bar
We are happy to welcome Sebastien Ronceray, founder of “Braquage” for a special show at Z-Bar in Berlin. Braquage is an association created in 2000 in Paris. They organize screenings, workshops and exhibitions related to experimental cinema, in particular films-on-film presentations. … read more