The Attic by Minos Nikolakakis at Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art Berlin , Fri 31. May 8:30pm

When Manos, a 50 year old man gets divorced from his wife, he moves in a new house in order to start all over again. Quite unexpectedly he discovers something spectacular. Ziggy, his childhood pop idol, is rehearsing in the most unusual of places. His attic.

Following the acclaimed German premiere at the 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge the wonderful film by Minos Nikolakakis will be screened again as part of Wild Horses #3, a dedicated night during the exhibition “Tribute to David Bowie"at Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art Berlin.

The Attic comes in combo with a (German) reading by Detlef Kuhlbrodt
Leben mit David Bowie: Wie sieht der denn aus?

What makes this exhibition so extraordinary is that it’s not striving on the bandwagon of the first Bowie record in ten years. It’s curated fondly and with passion (something that’s rare these days) and stands on its own right. – Iriedaily
The exhibition is small but vital, seemingly capturing the soul of the popstar at that moment in his career. – Berlinified

Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art Berlin

Fasanenstraße 37  10719 Berlin

Directors Lounge Screening:

Lior Shamriz
Beyond Love and Other Things to Do

Thursday, 30 May 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Berlin Premiere of „Beyond Love and Companionship“ and program of shorts. Lior Shamriz, who just premiered his new film at Oberhausen presents a selection of works from 8 years of filmmaking in Berlin and Israel together with his newest film.

Artist Links:
http://www.spektakulativ.com

Links:

Full program details:
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/

Z-Bar
http://www.z-bar.de

UDON by Usaginingen from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF

UDON by Usaginingen from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF

How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is by Yuichi Suita

黒いロングスカートの女 (Black Long-Skirt) by Hoji Tsuchiya

“CODEX DOLOR, 563 Aspects of Suffering, Episodes 34, 371 & 92 Presented in Part” by Stephen Dirkes

A Forest Within A Forest by Stefan Larsson

Bonobo No Souzo by Akinori Okada

Short Cuts To Japan – Black Box Kino im Filmmuseum, Saturday
May 25

日本デー!! Directors Lounge once again brings the Far East west, taking a diverse stack of short experimental films from its international trove in Berlin and making its way over to Düsseldorf’s annual German-Japanese festival known as Japan Day. Every manner of Japan will fill the screen at the Black Box Kino in the Filmmuseum in a presentation that continues DL’s vital and well-attended annual contribution to the event. Honourable Japanophile is most humbly invited to witness films from, about and inspired by Land of the Rising Sun. Irasshaimase, いらっしゃいませ!!

with short films by

Maeda Shinjiro, Yuichi Suita, Uemine Satoshi, Arikawa Shigeo, Hoji Tsuchiya, Akinori Okada, Taro Yasuno, Matron, Stephen Dirkes, Stefan Larsson, Usaginingen, Jeremy Rubier and Kimura Noriyuki

Kimura Noriyuki  Our Place 2011 5 min

Jeremy Rubier 岐路 ((CrossRoads) 2009 20 min

Shinjiro Maeda  ITO-kun 2011 5 min

Yuichi Suita How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is 2012 15 min

Uemine Satoshi Monju  2011 5 min

Arikawa Shigeo G・I 2011 5 min

Hoji Tsuchiya  黒いロングスカートの女 (Black long skirt) 2010 8 min 57s

Akinori Okada bonobo no souzo 2012 3 min 13s

Taro Yasuno  A Very Merry Unbirthday to you! 2011 5 min

Matron MONUMENT 3  2011 5 min

Stephen Dirkes Codex Dolor 2012 2 min

Stefan Larsson  A Forest Within A Forest 2010 05 min10s

Usaginingen UDON from the album “JAPANDORF” by Klaus Dinger + JAPANDORF* 2013 5min 42s

in attendance of Miki Yui*
curated and presented by Julia Murakami and André Werner

Black Box Kino im Filmmuseum‎
Schulstr. 4, 40213 Duesseldorf | map
May 25, 2013, 8 pm

Special thanks to:

VJ Chuu, Miki Yui, Kim Collmer, Alexei Dmitriev, Youki Hirakawa, Kenton Turk, Karl Neubert, Team Black Box / Filmmuseum and many others! 

DL is chaos in progress, everything is subject to change.

Directors Lounge Screening:

Gabriele Stellbaum
My over-groomed sense of entitlement

Thursday, 25 April 2013
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

A woman, the sole character in the scene and obviously in some dependent employment stops to act according to the role expected of her as employe. With unblinking eyes she seems to follow a different agenda, or maybe a “vision”. She seems to act strange or unreasonable, however it could be the opposite, that all of her surroundings appear to be unreasonable to her. “I would prefer not to…” is her response when asked directly (Bartleby) This brief outline of “Bartleby” a video adaptation of the novel of Herman Melville basically matches several of Gabriele Stellbaum’s more recent works. Another response of the female main character is: “What you call a violation has been an act of disgust” (Summer Frost). The films are set in very different locations or studio sets. The camera follows her almost all the time, it is very rarely allowed to detach from her, and thus transmits a claustrophobic feeling, already. The picture is clear, pristine and of that unforgiving sharpness of high definition video realism, and still there is a sense of surrealism similar to some of Lars von Trier’s Dogma films (and “Dogville”). According to the artist it is all based on images, she starts a project with a mental image she has, and searches or builds the sets she is looking for: an office space that totally matches the color of her printed cotton dress (Bartleby); a public indoor pool and all the adjacent facility spaces connected with it (Friday, the 13th); a seemingly endless parking garage that functions as a spiral-shaped maze (Honest Lies); or a flat, snow covered winter landscape used as intermitted images.

Gabriele Stellbaum will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Full program details:

http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesStellbaum.html

Artist Links:

http://stellbaum.wordpress.com/

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/becker/Gabriele-Stellbaum8-27-10.asp

Links:

Directors Lounge

http://www.directorslounge.net

Z-Bar

http://www.z-bar.de

Directors Lounge at the Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, April 20th, 7pm – 2am

We have been kindly invited by the Filmmuseum Duesseldorf to present selected shorts during Duesseldorf´s Night Of The Museums, a special art event when 40 museums and galleries open their doors for one night.
During this night, all of Duesseldorf’s cultural establishments present an exciting program from music, workshops, lectures to art, as well as a wide scale of culinary surprises.

We screen three programs, next to an animation-special, curated and presented by Kim Collmer and a luminosacoustic live performance by Croatian artists Lightune.G (Bojan Gagic and Miodrag Gladovic)

Show me shorts! #1

around 7:30pm

Joerg Brinkmann DE Entschleunigter Moses 02:05 2011
Claudia Guilino DE Stony Sleep 06:24 2011
Pasha Е RU Robots 04:39 2009 music: Dolphin
Roger Deutsch US Prelude 07:15 2011
Charles Fairbanks US/MX Irma 12:15 2010
Emilio Rizzo IT The Story of Dreams 02:38 2009
Richard Pierre CA Squeaky Shoe 01:50 2012
Reuben Sutherland GB Happy Up Here 02:58 2009
Andre Chi Sing Yuen DE Sword-Sharpness of Expression 02:26 2012
Bruce Knox DE Alienated 02:32 2011
Antoine Hilaire FR Cross the Fader 03:26 2008 music: Jamaica
Heiko Daxl and Ingeborg Fuelepp DE Tomaten 03:00 2004
Masha Godovannaya RU Untitled #1 04:00 2005
music: Gianluca Porcu aka LU

Show me shorts! #2

around 10:30pm

Nina Lassila FI Günter und Mutti 03:17 2011
Simon Ellis GB What About The Bodies 07:20 2002
Lucia Nimcova SK Exercise 05:54 2007
Neil Ira Needleman US A Charming And Quaint Tale Of Brutal Revenge 07:50 2012
stock`n`wolf / Tinka Stock & Sèbastien Wolf DE Bob Log`s III Electric Fence 02:25 2005
Franz Wanner DE pitrs 01:11 2000
D. Kimm & Brigitte Henry CA Mademoiselle Clara, Rabbit-Tamer 06:26 2010
Andre Werner DE Die Augen Der Menschheit 14:00 2007
Kote Camacho ES La Gran Carrera 06:55 2011
Chema Garcia Ibarra ES The Attack Of The Robots From Nebula-5 06:20 2008
Javier Chillon ES Decapoda Shock 09:15 2011
Guilherme Marcodes BR Tyger 04:30 2006
Juan Pablo Zaramella AR Luminaris 06:00 2011

Show me shorts! #3  

around midnight

Coleman MillerUS Uso Justo 22:00 2005
Sandra Araújo PT Tape Loading Error 02:55 2012
Oded Arad IL Bartholomew 09:08 2012
Karl F. Stewart DE/US Animaux Découpages 04:33 2012
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare CA Main Attraction 30:00 2011
Make the Girl Dance FR Baby Baby Baby 04:21 2009 music: Make the Girl Dance
John Christopher Gibson US Gillespie 08:08 2010
Joe McClean and Sarju Patel US How To Make David Lynch Movie 09:50 2011
Keith Schofield US Toe Jam 03:27 2008 music: The BPA

location:

Black Box, Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, Schulstraße 4, 40213 Duesseldorf

pictured: still from Coleman Miller’s “Uso Justo”

FORMING MOTION presented by Kim Collmer

part of Directors Lounge at the Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, April 20th, 8:30pm

Kim Collmer delivers some of her absolute favorites for a special edition of animations and videos from her Directors Lounge screenings.
How to describe the work? It’s a real mix! Humorous yet uncomfortable, light but heavy, slick though messy. The main overriding theme – genuine artistic expression.
Some of the artists showing include: Tobias Anderson, Buckius & Manos, John N. Cambell, Jennifer Hope Davy, Janet Galore, Cecilia Lundquist, Johannes Nyholm, Ho Yoel Ryu, Meredith Root and more!

Buckius & Manos, 101 Ways to Humanize Technology, 2007, 03:11

Meredith Root, Anxiety Invention, 2006, 03:00 
Hei Cheng and Mike Chan, Board, 2005, 01:00
Janet Galore, Party Party Chisai-san, 2006, 01:30
Ho-Yeol Ryu, Ampel,2002, 01:30
 
Eric Dyer, Copenhagen Cycles, 2005, 06:35
Ho-Yeol Ryu, Autobahn, 2002, 01:30
Kim Collmer, Berlin Skin, 2007, 04:00
Cecilia Lundqvist, Making Pancakes, 2005, 04:58
Johannes Nyholm, The Tale of Little Puppetboy, 2005, 04:20
David Shrigley, Chris Sheperd, Who I Am And What I Want, 2006, 07:20
Ho-Yeol Ryu, Billards, 2002, 01:30 min
J Tobias Anderson, Whereto I Go, 2005, 04:46 
Bridget Walker, One Verse, No Chorus, 2007, 05:32
John N. Campbell, Li: The Patterns of Nature, 2007, 09:07 
Jennifer Hope Davy, It’s Your Timing, 2013, 01:00
location: Black Box, Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, Schulstraße 4, 40213 Duesseldorf
pictured: still from Who I Am And What I Want by David Shrigley, Chris Sheperd

LIGHTUNE.G: LIGHTERATURE READING

A live luminoacoustic performance as part of Directors Lounge at the Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, April 20th, 9:30pm

LIGHTUNE.G (light+melody+tone G/50Hz) is the name of the collaborative duo consisting of Bojan Gagic and Miodrag Gladovic, which they are using to put on their first collaborative project, Lighterature Reading. The project is based on the conversion of light from luminous objects into tone images via the photovoltaic effect generated through solar panels (under the influence of light, solar panels – silicon cells – produce electricity the strength of which depends upon the intensity of the light). Hence the name that defines the performance and the composition technique – luminoacoustics. Different sources of light (neon, halogen, LED, cigarette lighters, video projectors, etc.) generate different sound frequencies which, through further processing, can be transformed into a modular musical sketch. The base frequency is 50Hz (the tone G) and is a product of theatre lighting conversion.

Bojan Gagic and Miodrag Gladovic started working on the project a year ago in collaboration with Ivan Bauk, defining a technical solution for the conversion of the photovoltaic effect and the possibilities for its use in music research.

Lighterature Reading will be shown in cooperation with Kroatien Kreativ 2013 Curator: Ingeborg Fuelepp

location: Black Box, Filmmuseum Duesseldorf, Schulstraße 4, 40213 Duesseldorf

If you’re in Albuquerque, New Mexico, visit our fellow film festival Experiments in Cinema v8.53 (April 3rd & 15-21, 2013) and “witness cinema like you have never experienced it before!”.

Festival director Bryan Konefsky presented a truly stunning EIC program at this year’s DL9. Now it’s our turn to show selected tidbits from The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DL9].

Experiment 6 (April 17th, 2013)
with short films by Oded Arad, Stephen Dirkes, Karl F. Stewart, Matthew Lancit, Eleonora Manca, Neil Ira Needleman, Reed O’Beirne, Alessio Rutigliano, Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core, Keren Zaltz and Juan Pablo Zaramella. Curated by Julia Murakami and André Werner

www.experimentsincinema.com

Directors Lounge Screening:

Anna Okrasko
video works and selected films

Thursday, 28 March 2013
21:00 Uhr
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Anna Okrasko confronts modern Dutch urban environments with ephemeral everyday stories. In Sobota/Saturday/Zaterdag, the artist worked with a group of young Polish immigrants in Rotterdam, making them act for the camera instead of interviewing them. Interviewing them, according to Okrasko, would just have made them respond to the bad public image Polish workers have in the eyes of Dutch people. Rather, she wanted to show the way they live and the urban environment they live in. Using Polish documentary films from the late 50’s as an inspiration, she has them explore the city, playing games, just killing time and finally gathering at their home. As these early post-war documentaries are the artist’s favorite films, some scenes of Sobota/Saturday/Zaterdag are even quotes from those films, making it even more interesting to present them together. Another part of the program will be a glimpse into Untitled (Ik kijk naar de film) a work-in-progress about a quarter in Utrecht, “Kanaleneiland”. This quarter was part of a massive urban expansion plan of the city of Utrecht in the 60’s but soon after became almost exclusively occupied by emigrants, it used to be seen as a no-go area for people of Dutch origin, however nowadays it is under rapid change, hosting many students, artists and an artist residency program. Though not finished, Anna Okrasko shows stunning images from that area and the beginning of a story of “a tramp” looking for a place to stay.

Anna Okrasko, polish artist who lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands currently works as an artist in residence at Programme ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) with Mondriaan Fonds grant. Since she came to Holland, she became more and more interested in the issue of contemporary Polish immigration in the Netherlands.

Especially with the combination of some films from the past, Anna Okrasko not only addresses the issue of contemporary labor migration inside the EU, but the question how the contemporary society on one hand sells the dream of freedom via consumer products, and on the other seems to limit growth by xenophobia and the costs for education. It may be interesting to take Okrasko’s ideas further and compare the limits, chances and goals for young Europeans in the societies of the 50’s and today.
Anna Okrasko will be available for Q&A.
Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr.

Artist Links:
http://www.okrasko.blogspot.de
http://airberlinalexanderplatz.de/
http://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/

Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://www.richfilm.de
http://www.z-bar.de

More Detailled Program Infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesOkrasko.html

interventions, transforming public space at platoon kunsthalle
Monday, 18 March 2013, 8pm

For those who missed the program III of Urban Research at The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge , here is another chance at another fine location.

more and more artists chose to create art in public space, use it as a public stage, or try to actively change it. an “invisible performance”, invisible, because it has not been publicly announced, may not physically change a place, however it may change the ideas of how to use public space in general.

Filipe Afonso’s film Televisao is a (secret) filming of private spaces, where nothing more happens than the nightly projection of a television screen, and he questions the differences between public and private sphere. Laura Kissel records a specific situation. “Window Cleaning” in Shanghai shows two facade-cleaners, who become public performers with their high-up activities, but also possible unwanted witnesses of private scenes. Kika Nicolela confronts people in places where usually no cameras are allowed, and where instead surveillance cameras always record.
Gabrielle de Bayon, Signe Theill and Nuno Escudeiro use urban spaces for their performances changing the concept of common uses of public space. Katze und Krieg actively engage with their surrounding. Here, it is not the authorities, interfering, but the crowd, not tolerating a slow-down in the public rush. And it is again, Vladimir Turner together with Vojtech Fröhlich and other artists, who hijack commercial billboards, turning them into other, more public use.

Urban Research – Interventions, Transforming Public Space
Directors Lounge at Kunsthalle Platoon
Monday, 18 March 2013 8pm

Kunsthalle Platoon Berlin
Schönhauser Allee 9
10119 Berlin . Germany
U2 Senefelder Platz.

Entrance: 5 Euro

Urban Research is a film and video program curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2013.

Programme:
Filipe Afonso (PT): Televisao (2012)

Kika Nicolela (BR): Don’t! (2010)

Philipp Hartmann (DE/AR): Entre despacio y por favor no haga ruido! (2012)

Nuno Escudeiro (PT): Pass by… (2011)

Kollektiv Graukarte (AT): Transforming a Non-Place (2011)

Eduardo Srur (BR): Bandit Bull (2010)

AKIZ (DE): Painting Reality (2010)

Laura Kissel (US): Window Cleaning in Shanghai (2011)

Signe Theill (DE): The new Middle (2010)

Gabrielle Le Bayon (FR): Image of a City (2011)

Julia Dick und Katharina Sandner katze und krieg (DE): Die Abenteuer
von Sissi und Sissi (2012)

Vladimir Turner (CZ): Osviceni / Enlightenment (2012)

Jan Simanek, Vladimir Turner, Vojtech Frohlich, Ondrej Mlady (CZ):

Merry-Go-Round (2011)
photo: AKIZ, Painting Reality (2010)