Brazilian offbeat filmmaker Gabraz Sanna on audience provocation, obsessive geometry, travelling with a legendary wildman, the “vira-lata” complex—and surviving Bolsonaro … read more
Directors Lounge Berlinale Special Gabraz Sanna – Diários de uma paisagem Z-Bar on Friday, 21 February 2025 at 5 p.m. Gabraz Sanna is coming back to Berlin to present the film he recorded here seven years ago with Tantão, the performer and iconic painter from Rio. The film portrays a passage of night and day …
Purveyors of hard-edged rock Dim Locator of Prague came to Berlin to perform an electrifying live set in 2013 at [DL9], in a program accompanying the docu-film Autoluminescent. Phil Shoenfelt is the all-in-black frontman of the unit. … read more
/ deutsche Version unten / Caroline Fayette’s first brush with DL was in 2014, where her short film The Island Where I Come From (made with Chloé Guerbois under the name Studio Twins) made the list for the 10-day DLX. Her work again showed up at a DL presentation at c.a.r. (Contemporary Art Ruhr) in …
In 2012, H.D. Motyl’s Nude Descending a Staircase #2 was selected for screening at [DL8]. Motyl flew over to Berlin from the US, where the producer and screenwriter is also an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and active in the Big Muddy Film Festival. … read more
Directors Lounge at Mitte Media Festival 2019. – Bizarre, Hypnotic, Wonderful – Selected Gems from the DL Archives. Get lost on a visual trip to the surreal, mystical and mesmerizing realm of bizarre, hypnotic and wonderful movies. Including works by Anton Corbijn, John Christopher Gibson, Guy Maddin, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Allan Brown, Roger Deutsch, Masha Godovannaya. …
Out on the (Fata Morgana) floor, four suspiciously alien creatures (Tristan Honsinger dragging voice and bow across low registers), Moeko Yamazaki (beating a ritual drum to within an inch of its life), Izumi Ose (as silver and silver gets, all a-glitter and a-twitch) and Woody Hoofer (acting up with his body as a sensual weapon) got very close indeed to the gathering one of during DL’s various presentations for the Mitte Media Festival 2018. A slew of unearthly film cuts and an ethereal installation were also part of the mix. Who needs gravity, after all?
DIRECTORS LOUNGE AT MITTE MEDIA FESTIVAL 20 – 22 April, 2018
Join Fata Morgana/coGalleries, Z-Bar, Leo Kuelbs Collection, Benhad & Djilal, BRLO, Chased Magazine, Kunstleben Berlin and Directors Lounge for the second annual MITTE MEDIA FESTIVAL! Lots of performance, art talks and videos of all kinds in the heart of Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood.
Mitte Media Festival takes its creative cues from the neighborhood itself: a thriving international scene with its own deep German heart. Berlin-based artists are mixed with a variety of international creators to provide a cross-section of what’s going on in the world of video and media art.
DL at Mitte Media | Program I (88 min) “In the other side, by her side” curated by Elaine Tedesco (Brazil), 20 April, 5 – 7 pm at Z-Bar: Contemporary videos of women artists about the city, urban issues, the arts circuit, performance, social problems, speeches and their forms, feminism, audiovisual language, memory, selfimage, daydreaming… Read more…
DL at Mitte Media | Program II (110 min) curated by Kenton Turk and Klaus W. Eisenlohr, 20 April, 8 – 10 pm at Fata Morgana Gallery: Here, DL will be doing a double-dig into its box of flickering tricks, with a program of shorts from both the Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival as well as the Urban Research side of things. There will be new projections as well, including, rumour has it, a mad monkey and film art that literally leaps into the room. Saying more would be telling…. Performers of the night include Tristan Honsinger (cello), Izumi Ose (melodion), Moeko Yamazaki (taiko drum) and the very odd Woody Hoofer (indescribable). Read more…
DL at Mitte Media | “Was vom Kino übrig blieb” (What remains from cinema), André Werner, 2018, 21 April, 6:30 – 8 pm at Z-Bar: The first in a series of Interactive video installations capturing glimpses of cinematica. See more…
THE MOVING PICTURE
Lights down For a show in the dark Vantage point the back row Where the screen fills your eyes
Watch her before you now Her gaze thrown far and wide See the picture begin to move Bold magic of cinema Before your unquenched eyes She raises her hands And shapes a world
She fashions a world And runs through it Peoples it with towering thoughts Covers it with high-standing dreams Places to run free and grow wild Up on the screen Flickering bravely in the dark
Now your gaze seeks her Catches her only here and there A soul playing coquette Revealing itself in fleeting moments
Watch her from the edge of your seat She is running in fields Her hair trailing electric sparks Her face thrown back Arms outstretched to two horizons Laughter darts across her lips Leaves around her fall Pages of unwritten memories Following their wilful aimless path She runs through them You watch from the edge of your seat
Her laughter trails distant But the picture remains Moved only to the next screen
– Kenton Turk
One year onward Never forgotten, our dear Claudia 12.01.1960 – 26.06.2016 Team DL
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