contemporary art and media
Directors Lounge at Mitte Media Festival 2019. “Jonas in the Jungle” by Peter Sempel. An essayistic exploration of Jonas Mekas (Dec. 24, 1922 – Jan. 23, 2019), the doyen of American Avant-Garde cinema. In attendance of filmmaker Peter Sempel. Making an appearance on Earth, shortly after having left it, will be legendary off-the-waller Jonas Mekas, …
Directors Lounge at Mitte Media Festival 2019. More spliters of light and shadow, colour and monochrome, scream and silence are set to crystallize out of the chaos of the cosmos, all this (potentially) before your very eyes. This can only mean Directors Lounge is shaking the sparks out of its treasure box and letting them …
A gent with a good taste for hats, cats and films
Kind words from our friends at Dotfest who appointed Andre Werner, founding member and artistic director of Directors Lounge, into the jury of the DotFest Online Film Festival. He will be in good society next to Jonas Mekas , Nag Vladermersky and Jean-Gabriel Periot.
update: And the winners are
I do not know why I make films. It’s an obsession
Interview with Jonas Mekas , whose “From Lucca” (2009) we screened in February as part of Hai Scoperto L’America!, by our good friends from Dotfest