contemporary art and media
All our screenings at the Z-Bar, Berlin-Mitte, Bergstr.2
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
Kim Collmer Behind the Curtain.
Directors Lounge Screening
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 9pm
Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte
Animation and “real film” come together almost seamlessly in the work of Kim Collmer, connecting creative fantasy with space and place. … read more
Stephanie Hanna conceives her videos in a process of combining performances, texts, video and audio recordings. Her works often incorporate collaborations with other artists, viewers or passers-by. The performative constellation of her concept thus becomes almost tangible. Her videos turn into short film essays. … read more
Directors Lounge Screening Theo Thiesmeier Film Notes and Moments Thursday, 31 October 2019 | 9 p.m. / 21h Z-Bar | Bergstraße 2 | 10115 Berlin-Mitte Everyday experiences are the subject of filmmaker Theo Thiesmeier, also in his works with still photography. The Berlin artist studied with Peter Kubelka in Frankfurt and Robert Breer at Cooper …
A feature from 5 of his short films.
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 9pm | Z-Bar
Roger Deutsch, an American who lives in Hungary, entered the realm of film 40 years ago as the producer of the punk classic “Blank Generation” featuring Richard Hell and the Voidoids. He´s become a regular at many Directors Lounge screenings.
The Five Stories screening is your chance to get a comprehensive impression of his work and to meet the charismatic filmmaker in person. … read more
Maria Manasterny
Augenlose Träume und ruinierte Teppichschäume
Eyeless Dreams and Ruined Carpet Foames
Thursday, 25 July 2019 | 9pm / 21h
Z-Bar | Bergstraße 2 | 10115 Berlin-Mitte
The film work of Maria Manasterny combines a broad variety of different genres, such as animation, docufiction and experimental film by her joining artistic attitude. The narrative substructure, the open experimental design and her love for film are common to all of her films. … read more