Wed 12 | 9:30pm | space B

We are going to party together with Cross Art Berlin, a new Berlin, Zuerich based gallery with a focus on unconventional art from the fields of subculture, bizarre eroticism and underground.

The night starts with a special cross art presentation:

Thomas Bröse DE Seelig 36:33 2013 IA

The director and all actors will be present.

Special guests Kay P. Rinha and Anna Aliena (actor from film “Seelig” and performer and singer)

Later we dive into a night of decadence with Dieter Rita Scholl accompanied by Italian import pianist Martin Colli.

At the turntables: DJ Petra Flurr

From then on the lunatics will take over

Petra Flurr

SEELIG is a black-white movie with a surrealistic content. It starts with a classical story and break over to a surrealistic journey, similar to a drogue trip. The central figure is “the joker”, who obsessed the other actors´s soul and is kidnapping them to an absud, crazy and wild world of dreams. The roles aren’ t gender determinated, women are also playing classical male roles. The film is made in a very simple and unperfect style, it constists of beautiful arranged single scenaries and specially composed music. 

pictured: cross art Berlin, Petra Flurr, still from Seelig by Thomas Bröse.

DL X program

WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance

Wed 12 | 10pm | stage

NICOLE YAZOLINO

We apologize: Nicole Yazolino’s performance is unfortunately cancelled due to unexpected illness… take care of that voice and get well soon, girl! Team DL.

The richly expressive operatic voice of Nicole Yazolino has always itched for music beyond its admittedly soaring confines, and found it in original songs blending flourishes of opera into guitar ballads and jazzy novelties. Already a fixture with a growing cult following, the American diva nouvelle brings to [DLX] something new: an eclectic performance piece that is a mix of ambient elecronica, vocal improvisation, classical French and German art song, traditional songs and arias… a performance experience without parallel. Yazolino’s offbeat wit and onstage charm are reason enough to come out in droves, but the nuances of that voice always manage to take the evening. Yazolino herself dubs the piece “fucking cool.” Need we say more?

picture: Steffen Freiling.

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Wed 12 | 10:30pm | stage

DIETER RITA SCHOLL with Martina Colli, piano

The man Glenn Close once described as “the most incredible person in the world” in fact changes gender the way others change their summer underwear. Dieter Rita Scholl, besides appearing (literally) beside “La Close” in Meeting Venus, has also graced the screen in Agnes und seine Brüder and the recent, award-winning Cold Star, among other films, and taken the stage as Dalida and a bevy of other beguiling beauties and brutes. This is Berlin’s native scene-stealer. A very special guest performing live, accompanied by Italian import pianist Martina Colli, straying from the classical repertoire of her recent album* into the world of the offbeat, tonight at Directors Lounge.

*Compositions of Gino Marinuzzi Jr., Tactus label

Supporting film: Kai Stänicke De Cold Star 07:03 2011

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photo: Dieter Rita Scholl by Thomas Bröse

TRT 73 min

WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance