Fotofilm - Photography as Film

Directors Lounge Screening: Fotofilm – photography as film –

/ German version below / Directors Lounge Screening: Fotofilm – photography as film – Thursday, October 26, 2023 9 p.m. Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte   Film is often associated with the moving image. The works showcased here defy this convention; they are films narrated using individual images and not using the traditional technique of …

DL Screening - Theo Thiesmeier - A simple way and other shorts

Directors Lounge Screening Theo Thiesmeier – A Simple Way and other Shorts

Directors Lounge Screening Theo Thiesmeier A Simple Way and other Shorts Thursday, 28 April 2022 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte Berlin filmmaker and photographer Theo Thiesmeier presents his newest film accompanied with a program of shorts. The base of the artist’s filmmaking has been the close perceptions through the camera recorded with analogue film. …

Directors Lounge Screening Theo Thiesmeier Film Notes and Moments

Theo Thiesmeier | Film Notes and Moments

Directors Lounge Screening Theo Thiesmeier Film Notes and Moments Thursday, 31 October 2019 |  9 p.m. / 21h Z-Bar | Bergstraße 2 | 10115 Berlin-Mitte Everyday experiences are the subject of filmmaker Theo Thiesmeier, also in his works with still photography. The Berlin artist studied with Peter Kubelka in Frankfurt and Robert Breer at Cooper …

Minuano Visions | New experimental films from Brazil by Daniela Tavora, Marina Camargo and Tula Anagnostopoulos.

Minuano Visions | New experimental films from Brazil

Directors Lounge Screening Minuano Visions | New experimental films from Brazil by Daniela Tavora, Marina Camargo and Tula Anagnostopoulos. Thursday, 27 June 2019 9pm / 21h Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte   Three Brazilian artists from Porto Alegre present their films on the occasion of the German-Brazilian exhibition “Techné” at Verein Berliner Künstler. “Minuano” is …

Directors Lounge Screening - Jos Diegel | Your Bounderies Will be Replaced

Jos Diegel | Your Bounderies Will be Replaced

Directors Lounge Screening Thursday, 25 April 2019 | 9 pm 21:00 | Z-Bar The artist and filmmaker, who lives and works in Berlin, Leipzig, Offenbach and Frankfurt, positions himself in a singular way in contemporary cinema with his short film and video essays. This is surprising as he picks up a long tradition in German …

Jonas Mekas, London | courtesy: Peter Sempel

In Memory of Jonas Mekas

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, …

Mitte Media Festival

Continuing The Dazzle

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 …

main attraction by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare

Directors Lounge Presents: Bizarre, Hypnotic, Wonderful

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. …

Directors Lounge Screening - Maria Korporal - Lines in Between the Maze

Maria Korporal | Lines in Between the Maze

Directors Lounge Screening Thursday, 28 March 2019 | 9pm 21:00 | Z-Bar Metaphors combine beauty with a call for a better life. The Berlin artist Maria Korporal studied in the Netherlands and was working and living in Italy until 2013. Her videos, installations and performances show a strong technical affinity, while at the same time, …

Directors Lounge Screening. Björn Speidel About the Depths of the Plateau

Björn Speidel | About the Depths of the Plateau

Directors Lounge Screening

Thursday, 28 February 2019 | 9pm 21:00 | Z-Bar

With his experimental films, the Berlin based filmmaker Björn Speidel explores the relationship between image and imaging surface. For several years, he has investigated the image’s depth by the use of stereo 3D.
The screening will include the first presentation of the „Video-Harp“ as a world premiere. … read more