contemporary art and media
Wed 12 | 8:30pm | space A
Audrey Lam AU Faraways 09:35 2012 GP
Nikita Lavretski BY The End of December 14:37 2013 WP
Charles Newland GB Roma Lost 01:22 2013
Lena Ditte Nissen DE Korona 10:20 2013
Alexandru Ponoran RO Isac Inca Doarme 17:00 2012 GP
Josecho de Linares AF Mi Ojo Derecho 13:00 2012
pictured: Isac Inca Doarme by Alexandru Ponoran; Mi Ojo Derecho by Josecho de Linares
TRT 66 min
WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance
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.
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.
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
photo: Dieter Rita Scholl by Thomas Bröse
TRT 73 min
WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance
Thurs 13 | 6pm | space A
Chiara Caterina IT Avant La Nuit 02:48 2013 GP
Jean-Gabriel Périot FR The Day Has Conquered The Night 28:00 2013
They dream that they can’t move, that nobody hears them scream, that the walls move in and there’s no more air to breathe. They dream of a woman’s body with all its curves and secrets. They dream in words, songs or rap music.
The framing is as simple as possible, aiming for maximum focus; the voice-over is matter-of-fact and unemotional, completely independent. They, whose names, origins, crimes we never learn, look directly into the camera. They interact with us, the audience who are just as anonymous, talking about their most intimate fears and desires. But: they are inside and we are outside. They hope for a better future and we wonder what happened in their past. This creates a game of illusions in which director Jean-Gabriel Périot gradually intervenes more and more to release it from its rigour and make the dreams dance.
Award-winning French director Jean-Gabriel Périot, a specialist in highly original short documentaries, puts questions to eight unwilling inmates of an Orléans prison. They appear on camera in precisely placed frontal shots and confide their wildest dreams and most oppressive nightmares, allowing us to delve deep into minds altered by a life behind bars. The well-planned shots have their own rhythm and the music faithfully corresponds to the mood of the individual dreams, whose seeming absurdity aptly reflects the grueling mundanity of prison life.
pictured: Jean-Gabriel Périot The Day Has Conquered The Night 2013
TRT 31 min
WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance
Thurs 13 | 6pm | space B
Digital storytelling introduces an installation of RFID books that trigger interaction through the flipping of pages.
Digital Storytelling ist ein relativ neuer Begriff sowohl in der Medienwelt als auch in der Welt der Künstler.
Dabei ist Digital Storytelling mehr als nur die digitale Variante gedruckter Bücher.Gemeinsam haben Informatiker und Künstler versucht, neue Elemente in der Gestaltung von digitalen Büchern zu finden.
Die beiden interaktiven Bücher “Urban Framing” von Sandra Becker und “Simulacra” von Bego Santiago verbinden die analoge mit der digitalen Leseweise. Während die Buchseiten umgeblättert werden erscheinen die digitalen Inhalte als Projektion an der Wand. Diese werden über RFID-Tags gesteuert. Dadurch wird das Buch als Objekt in das digitale Zeitalter gerettet. Entstanden im Workshop “Digital Storytelling” von Dr. Regina Franken wurden die Bücher im Rahmen des Projekts BeWITEC in einer Kooperation zwischen der Medienwerkstatt Berlin/Netzwerkvirus und der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft realisiert.
pictured: Urban Framing, digital storytelling by Sandra Becker01. photo: Stephan Bergemann.
TRT 45 min
Thurs 13 | 7pm | space A
pictured: Carl Sebastian Lindberg Home and Country 2013.
Jacob Podber US Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland 02:43 2013
GP/ IA
Carl Sebastian Lindberg FI Home and Country 18:41 2013 GP
Henrike Naumann DE Triangular Stories 16:45 2012 GP/IA
pictured: Jacob Podber Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland 2013.
“Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland” is grounded in the oral history testimony of a Holocaust survivor and has been deconstructed by the interviewee’s son. Unlike most oral histories that focus on the words of the interviewee, “Vishneva” uses silent images from the interview superimposed with typed memories that describe the unspoken pain borne by father and son through more than half a century.
TRT 36 min
WP World premiere
EP European premiere
GP German premiere
IA in attendance
Thurs 13 | 8pm | space A
WORLD PREMIERE
Nonconformity is a multilayered epos based on the works by Leо Tolstoy. The action is shifted to our reality. The spotlight of the story is a withdrawn existence of mountain village inhabitants. Fyodor Lykov is a butcher, a man with the past. But he has neither present nor future. Having lost his father at a young age, and for the survival of his family, Fyodor had to go to work at the slaughterhouse. In the same village there is a mental hospital. Its head administration is a black market and organ dealers. Among the patients there is a granddaughter of a war veteran, who is deprived of his house in exchange for his granddaughter’s freedom. His belongings are ruined. The old man is starving… To take the donkey to the slaughterhouse is the last chance to survive. By chance the crippled girl meets the butcher. But she knows that she is going to die. The butcher feels his coming death as well. They are scared. It is hard for them. They both have stories to tell and they will share their secrets with each other.
Igor Parfenov UA Nonconformity 2013 WP
Genre: social drama
Cast: Vladimir Maliar, Ellen Sliusarchi, Igor Parfenov, Alexsandr Denisenko and others.
TRT 2h 4min
About Igor Parfenov
Igor Parfenov is Head and Founder of STEPS IFF, annual festival on Human Rights, Animal Rights and Environmental protection; director and producer of feature, documentary and short films.
Igor was born on March 8th, 1962. Since school he has been fond of philosophy and reading, has always had concern for animal welfare. Igor received his M.S. from Kharkiv Physical Training Institute, Ukraine, and he is a master of sports in Judo. Apart from being a professional sportsman, Igor is also keen on extreme tourism. He has travelled around Altai, run mountain rivers in a raft.
Since 1997 Igor has been actively promoting human and animal rights along with environmental protection as President of “Steps” Centre named after Leo Tolstoy.. He has organized over 200 different events to support initiation of acts on human and animal rights in Ukraine. In 2000 Igor was nominated “Environmentalist of the year” and awarded “Man of the year – Man of the millennium”. In 2004 he started directing films aimed at promoting animal welfare, environmental protection and human rights defense, as well as films of spiritual and philosophical orientation.Since 2011 Igor Parfenov is a member of Filmmakers’ Union of Ukraine.
Igor has directed 7 feature films and a number of documentaries and short films, and is presently working on his next fiction film.
pictured: Igor Parfenov “Nonconformity”
Thurs 13 | 7pm | space B
pictured: Still from “We” by Achim Kobe (2008/09)..
TRT 2h
Thurs 13 | 10pm | stage
Still und Dunkel(silent and dark)
An audiovisual performance by Christoph Brünggel and Benny Jaberg
Our interest lies in the aura of disused factories, abandoned civil defense facilities and similar supposed utopian ,non-places‘. The temporality of such locations and their potential to evoke the feeling of loneliness in the spectator inspires us. We examine abandoned places towards its capacity to store and capture time in itself with artistic means.
Prior to a performance of «Still und Dunkel», film sequences of such abandoned spaces and buildings are shot on-site. With these pictures the VJ collective «Pixelpunx» will work during the audiovisual live performance. The images are mixed instantly with sequences of this growing film archive. The visuals are influenced by the juxtaposition of analogies and contrast of different places and their specific silence and darkness.
pictured: Still und Dunkel live.