Just to give you some more time. 🙂

Well, you asked for it and we are listening: Due to popular demand we are accepting submissions for The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge till 25th of December!

Please note: logins to upload films will be sent out, a bunch at a time. Due to the high volume of submissions you may have to wait several days.

Please understand that we do not confirm every single film we receive. If your work is missing, we will get in touch with you.

CALL FOR ENTRIES forThe 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DL9] 2013

We invite all video artists and filmmakers to submit their works for next year’s Berlin International Directors Lounge. The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the annual festival for contemporary media and film alongside the 63nd Berlinale, will take place from 7 -17th of February, 2013 at the Naherholung Sternchen in Berlin.

Again we will be screening a broad selection of films from all parts of the world and of any genre (video art, experimental video, animation, short movie, etc.), covering a wide range of artistic positions in the new media. Details will be revealed over time on our website. Stay tuned for a fine collection of cinematic tidbits.

Now it´s your turn to submit your film for The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge. We welcome single works, compilations, concepts, lectures, any kind of input.

SUBMIT NOW

Deadline: 25th of December 2012

Open Call for Urban Research!
Submit your films addressing urban concerns!

Feel free to spread the news! 🙂

Team Directors Lounge

Unlocking the screen [DL9] The 9th  Berlin International Directors Lounge

February 7-17, 2013

And then there were nine.
Directors Lounge, Number Nine. Nine years of genre-straddling slices of cinematic art and cuts of media experimentation, rearranged into viewable excursions into worlds new and challenging. As well, nine years of non-festival festival atmosphere, more circus than film space. With commingling of filmmakers and film-goers, without velvet barriers and cordoned-off areas for visiting visionaries. And with Number Nine on the way. This is the festival that provides the backdrop and erases the lines. Here, you can meet anyone.
And exactly this is the concept. Directors Lounge presents first and foremost cutting edge cinematic visions, but is acutely aware that the atmosphere surrounding the screenings is a good part of our jag.
Last year, DL moved to a venue truer to the core idea: Naherholung Sternchen. The onetime GDR actor-hangout club, revamped to present films as well as just be cool, is the perfect spot for event. The response was greater than ever, the pleasure clear to see. Highlights included special retrospectives attended by the directors themselves (e.g. Sundance winner Simon Ellis and Cinema of Transgression originator Nick Zedd, in from the UK and New York respectively). As well, there were feature film screenings and Q&A’s, plus myriad short films of every cut and dimension. Beyond film, singers, musicians, poets, electronic improvisors, VJ’s, DJ’s and shellac-spinners did their respective things around the screen presentations. This is more than simply a festival, more than simply a lounge.
Although there are no red carpets, there are premieres aplenty, generally a good number every night during the ten-day extravaganza, whether German, European or World. In addition, [DL8] hosted during its run the Festiwelt Party, a heady coming-together of many thematic films festivals, jamming film folk of every stripe into every conceivable corner of Sternchen. There was hardly a place to stand (or dance); hardly a language not heard.
The special challenge is to make Nine follow Eight, not just chronologically but in terms of growth. Here, Directors Lounge is not aiming to take over the world, but to bring it more colour and scope. The kaleidoscope atmosphere of [DL8], fluidity without chaos, diversity without confusion, should remain, but not static. There will be a broad mix of offerings from the worldwide Open Call, equalling or exceeding the spectrum of the last outing. Creators, performers and viewers will rub shoulders. This is not a place where projects end, but where they begin.
[DL9] will not be a walk down well-trodden ground, but rather a unique safari into the terrain of cinematic and media-art wildlife. Vogue and other reporting press from last year grappled for words to praise the goings-on. Better you come yourself and put your own stamp on it.

Submit Now!

[DL9] The 9th  Berlin International Directors Lounge
at Naherholung Sternchen, behind the Kino International
February 7-17, 2013

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

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 at the C.A.R. contemporary art Ruhr fair

Once again we are at the Zollverein World Heritage Site, November 2-4, 2012
You´ll find us in the center of the amazing Sanaa building.

On Saturday, 3 November, we participate in a charity auction, including works donated by Julia Murakami, and Joachim Seinfeld, to support the eco-programs of the United Nations. The auctioneer will be Til Macke, grandson of August Macke.

• artists (selection)

Julia Murakami, Joachim Seinfeld, Alan Smithee, André Werner

• with films by (selection)

Stefan Adamski RE:, Allan Brown Square Dance Hypnotist, Kote Camacho La Gran Carrera, Kim Collmer Head Room, Ron Diorio American Arabesque, Simon Ellis Telling Lies / What About The Bodies / Where Is My Mind, EZO Sinecdoquanon, Charles Fairbanks IRMA, Firas Khnaisser Night and Day, Neil Needleman Meeskeit, Roberto Santaguida Haikus for Karaoke / Miraslava, Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core Miss Candace Hilligoss’ Flickering Halo, Fritz Stolberg Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing!, Maurizio v. Trapp Matador

 November 2-4, 2012

Zollverein World Heritage Site
Gelsenkirchener Strasse
45129 Essen, Germany

Official Opening:
Friday, November 2, 2012, 8 pm, V.I.P.-Preview: 6 pm

Public Fair Days:
Saturday, November 3, 2012, noon – 8 pm
Sunday, November, 4, 2012, 11 am – 7 pm

day ticket: 12,- € / 10,-€

pictured above: Joachim Seinfeld, Berlin 1962, construction of the wall, 2009 from the series Wenn Deutsche lustig sind – docufiction (photo performance)

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

GREAT READ-OUT #3: AFRIKEURASIA! Thursday November 1 at 8:00 pm

LUDMILA ASIPIENKA | SEBASTIAN LONG

A young man finds a novel way to sneak his country’s language back into the public library, ever new ruses trick hopeful students again and again out of their time and into unpaid labour, teachers complete their households with a constant stream of gifts from demanding parents… Belarus, Europe’s best-kept secret, is a land-locked and politically-locked country around the corner, yet worlds away.

The young author Ludmila Asipienka first made her way to Berlin for a series of Grüner Salon readings through interpreters to accompany her book Kastus’ Journal,* relating the mad but often unwittingly amusing situation surrounding a fresh generation of young Belarusians reluctant to toe the line in Europe’s cultural gated community. Now at home in Berlin and with the German language, she shares her accounts for the first time in her own voice…. (Reading in German with English introduction)

Stunning natural beauty and hospitable natives contrast mind-boggling bureaucracy, the lingering spectre of apartheid and the occasional realization that Borat wasn’t all that wrong… Vietnam, Uzbekistan, South Africa and stations between are subjected to the perceptive man’s eye, and neither the dazzling nor the dubious escapes, whether dressed down or dressed up.

Bloggernaut Sebastian Long has shared his wry and perceptive observations with who-knows-how-many on his popular English and German blogs for years. Now the tireless traveller and young doctor reads from his notes and anecdotes for the first time in person. Africa and Asia like the guidebooks don’t always tell it…. (Reading in English and German)

Two writer-observers taking their tales from real life, both with a sharp eye for lurking irony and the nitty-gritty under the surface. “Afrikeurasia!” is presented within our regular monthly series of readings and as part of the intercultural festival “Woche des Besuchs” (Oct. 28 – Nov. 4).

*co-written with Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, German title: Unerwünscht zu Hause – Belarussische Studenten im Exil.

Creative director: Kenton Turk | supported by Directors Lounge

The Great Heisenberg, Schillerpromenade 11, Neukölln (U-Boddinstr. or U-Leinestr.; also Bus 104 + 167, stop: Herrfuhrtstr.). Thursday, November 1 at 8:00 pm, in German and English.

german:

  Ein junger Mann findet einen neuartigen Weg, die Landessprache wieder in die öffentliche Bibliothek hineinzuschmuggeln; hoffnungsvolle Studenten werden mit immer neuen Tricks ihrer Freizeit beraubt und zur unbezahlten körperlichen Arbeit gezwungen; Lehrkräfte richten ihre Haushalte mithilfe von einem andauernden Strom der Geschenke von fordernden Eltern ein… Belarus (Weißrussland), das best gehütete Geheimnis Europas, ist ein Binnenstaat und politisch gesperrtes Land unweit unserer Grenzen, aber jedoch Welten entfernt.

Die junge Autorin Ludmila Asipienka machte sich zuerst auf den Weg nach Berlin für eine Reihe von durch Dolmetscher ermöglichten Lesungen im Grünen Salon anlässlich des Erscheinens ihres Buchs Das Tagebuch des Kastus,* das die irre aber oft unabsichtlich irrwitzige Situation einer frischen Generation junger Belarussen erzählt, die abgeneigt ist, sich in Europas kulturellen „gated community“ einzufügen. Jetzt zu Hause in Berlin und vertraut mit der deutschen Sprache, teilt sie ihre Berichte zum ersten Mal mit ihrer eigenen Stimme… (Lesung in deutscher Sprache mit englischer Einleitung.)

  Atemberaubende Naturschönheiten und gastfreundliche Einheimische stehen im Kontrast zu irrsinniger Bürokratie, dem anhaltenden Gespenst der Apartheid und der gelegentlichen Erkenntnis, dass Borat vielleicht nicht immer so falsch lag… Vietnam, Usbekistan, Südafrika und Stationen dazwischen werden einem scharfsinnigen Auge ausgesetzt, und weder das Strahlende noch das Suspekte kann ihm entkommen, ganz gleich ob heruntergespielt oder herausgeputzt.

Bloggernaut Sebastian Long hat seine ironischen und scharfsinnigen Beobachtungen mit wer-weiß-wie-vielen auf seinen beliebten englisch- und deutschsprachigen Blogs seit Jahren geteilt. Jetzt liest der unermüdliche Reisende und junger Arzt aus seinen Notizen und Anekdoten zum ersten Mal persönlich. Afrika und Asien wie die Reiseführer sie nicht immer auftischen… (Lesung in englischer und deutscher Sprache)

Zwei Schreiber-Beobachter, die ihre Geschichten dem wirklichen Leben entnehmen, alle beide mit einem scharfen Auge für lauernde Ironie und das Wesentliche unter der Oberfläche. “Afrikeurasia!” wird in unserer regelmäßigen monatlichen Lesereihe und auch als Teil des interkulturellen Festivals “Woche des Besuchs” (28.10. – 04.11.) präsentiert.

*mitgeschrieben von Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, deutscher Titel: Unerwünscht zu Hause – Belarussische Studenten im Exil.

Creative director: Kenton Turk | unterstützt von Directors Lounge

The Great Heisenberg, Schillerpromenade 11, Neukölln (U-Boddinstr. oder U-Leinestr. sowie Bus 104 + 167, Haltestelle: Herrfuhrtstr.). Donnerstag, den 01. November um 20:00, in deutscher und englischer Sprache.