tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39282474479032236652024-02-07T19:10:39.708-08:00Directors Lounge 2007news, gossip, juicy factsplaceboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-15682302753105953622007-11-18T20:00:00.000-08:002007-11-09T18:05:27.227-08:00CHRONICLE live at RAW<strong class="NewsFlash2">• <strong>Directors Lounge</strong> and <a href="http://www.whatisjazz.de" target="_blank">W(h)at Is Jazz</a> proudly present:</strong><br /><br /> <span class="programmtitel"><strong><a href="http://www.raymondharmon.com/" target="_blank">Raymond Salvatore Harmon</a> with the<a href="http://www.whatisjazz.de/ChicagoUndergroundTrio.htm" target="_blank">Chicago Underground Trio</a></strong></span><br /><br /> <span class="NewsFlash2">a 'film concert' at the RAW Tempel </span><br><br /> <strong>Sun November 18</strong>th, <strong>9</strong>pm, doors open at 8pm<a href="http://www.raw-tempel.de/" target="_blank">. <br /><br /> RAW Tempel</a> - Revaler Str.99 - Friedrichshain<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/1600/279482/chronicle01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/400/275228/chronicle01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Chronicle, <a href="http://www.raymondharmon.com/" target="_blank">Raymond Salvatore Harmon</a>´s feature length performance film with the <a href="http://www.whatisjazz.de/ChicagoUndergroundTrio.htm" target="_blank">Chicago Underground Trio</a>, was a visual and musical highlight of <a href="http://directorslounge2007program.blogspot.com/2007/02/12-pm-chronicles-chicago-underground.html" target="_blank">Directors Lounge 2007</a>. <br /><br /> Now, the <a href="http://www.whatisjazz.de/ChicagoUndergroundTrio.htm" target="_blank">Chicago Underground Trio</a> and director <a href="http://www.raymondharmon.com/" target="_blank">Raymond Salvatore Harmon</a> will turn the concert film 'Chronicle' inside out and perform a 'film concert' at the RAW Tempel <br /> <p class="fliesstext01">Chronicle is unlike any music/film performance made to date. Expect an evening verging into the psychedelic, both sonically and visually.<br /><br />expand for a teasing video<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sHjUSCmxNrM&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sHjUSCmxNrM&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-82329764106489677002007-09-20T06:05:00.000-07:002007-11-09T17:42:38.461-08:00A Summer Evening With Sheri Wills<a href="http://directorslounge.net/sheriwills.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://directorslounge.net/sheri-wills-1.jpg" WIDTH="450" /></a><br /><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">A</span>mazing musicality and intensity in color are the foremost impressions of Sheri Wills' films. At the same time they speak about the beauty and fragility of the microcosm that surrounds us, and in our daily life, barely catches our attention. <br /><br />Having started off with super-8 and 16mm films, and the endless possibilities of an optical printer, Sheri Wills still uses photograms as starting point of her films, however, she now also uses found footage, lens-based images and digital technology in combination with this "earliest and simplest photographic technology".<br /><br /> </p><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/sheriwills.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://directorslounge.net/sheri-wills-2.jpg" WIDTH="450" /></a><br /><br /><br />On a closer look, one could also say, the films of Sheri Wills evoke memories, illuminated memories without pointing to a specific time, or reference in the past. Rather, they are passageways in a territory of synthesized memories. If there are (according to Roland Barthes) signifiers without significants in language, one could then say, Sheri Wills' pictography is an artistic mnemonics without significants in the past. The colors and shapes, as abstract as they may appear still maintain a reference to the physical world. Their mere beauty and rhythmical structure, though, give them the quality of unresolved deja-vues. Bergson's view of a simultaneously present existence of the past and the presence comes into mind. In this concept, Sheri Wills' image making would be the presence of memories, which extend into the future while ignoring the logic of a time axis. Her films evoke memories of forgotten dreams, of childlike awe, of the "earliest cinema" of Brakhage, while rubbing your eyes. Even the used found footage does not point to a specific time period, although we can read traces of a timed fashion. Thus, Sheri Wills, in her own genius way, has made the leap from "movement-image" to "time-image" (Deleuze). Memory does not have to talk about past; memory and image associations may as well be about the present or the future. However, they definitively live on in a different time mode.<br /><br />Sheri Wills deep interest in contemporary music has also led to congenial collaborations with young modern composers. Viewing her films thus becomes a synesthetic experience of color, form, rhythm and music.<br /><br />The program will consist of 16mm films and digital video projections.<br /></span><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/sheriwills.html"target="_blank">a summer evening with sheri wills </a><br />curated by <a href="http://www.richfilm.de/"target="_blank">Klaus W. Eisenlohr</a><br />Friday, 21 September 2007, 9 pm <a href="http://www.z-bar.de/"target="_blank">Z-Bar</a>, Berlin, Bergstr. 2placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-37342269713301032032007-09-06T07:16:00.000-07:002007-09-06T07:49:51.431-07:00memory in motion<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">M</span>Eemory in motion, art in the public space takes place in Munich these days. To give you a little idea about what´s going on in rainy Bavaria wé add this feed to serve ou some snaps from the show.<br /> </p><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/mim01.html">meet</a> us if in <a href="http://directorslounge.net/mim01.html">Munich</a><br /><br /><div style="height:550px;width:450px; Overflow: hidden;Overflow-x: hidden;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedburner/mYbb?format=sigpro" type="text/javascript" ></script><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MemoryInMotion?format=sigpro" type="text/javascript" ></script><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-50105052460573989432007-08-24T12:09:00.000-07:002007-11-09T17:43:28.015-08:00Cocoon and other Swan Songs — Felice Naomi Wonnenberg<blockquote><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://data.tumblr.com/8931310_400.jpg" />Kvetshing (Complaining) to Gertrude Stein, Video performance, 1 min, 2007<br /><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">F</span>elice Naomi Wonnenberg's video work is a unique, sometimes surrealist collage inspired by Jewish thought and political and gender issues. It combines in an intriguing manner Middle-Eastern reality with European cinematographic aesthtics. The Tel Aviv and Berlin based artist has been showing her video works and experimental films internationally since 1998, among others at the <a href="http://directorslounge.net/"target="_blank">Directors Lounge</a>, Berlin (2005), in the MoMA Museum of Modern Art New York (2007), The Israel Museum Jerusalem (2007), the Jewish Film Festival Berlin and in Goethe Institutes worldwide. She was awarded the ARTE / 3Sat prize for artistic innovation, her work was repeatedly screened on 3SAT (German speaking art TV channel) and in over 30 international film festivals. In 2001 she graduated from the Masterclass of the Berlin Art Academy (HdK Berlin – UdK) (the highest degree in visual art in German art academies). She has been living and working in Israel and Berlin as an artist, art critic and in museums since 2005. Her experimental films are shot on 16mm film (a format launched in 1923, used by surrealist and dadaist artists and later in WW2) and she also works with digital video.<br /><em>pressrelease</em><br /> </p><br /><br />Video Art and Experimental Films <br />by <a href="http://felice.naomi.googlepages.com/"target="_blank">Felice Naomi Wonnenberg</a><br /><br />curated by <a href="http://www.richfilm.de/" target="_blank">Klaus W. Eisenlohr</a> <br /><span class="navigaBoxGrey">Sunday, 26 August 2007, 9 pm</span> <span class="navigaBoxGrey"><a href="http://www.z-bar.de/" target="_blank">Z-Bar,</a> Bergstr. 2</span> <a href="alli.html"></a><br /> <br /><br />expand for film details<br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><em>some of the films included:</em><br /><br /><br /><blockquote><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://data.tumblr.com/8931648_400.jpg" />Jewel Garden<br />experimental documentary, digital video, 10 mins, 2006<br /><br /><em>"...a delightful...wonderfully inventive film and...great addition to our program"</em><br /><br />writes William Sloan, curator of MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, NY<br /><br />Portrait of an old 2nd-hand jewelry dealer on Berlin's shopping-mile Ku'damm. In an uncut 9 min. close-up shot, the camera glides over the glittering necklaces, war medals, Jewish Chanukah candlesticks, worn-out wedding rings and other broken dreams on sale. We never get to see the dealer, but we do hear him chat about his theories on love.<br /><br /></blockquote><br /> <br /><br /><blockquote><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://data.tumblr.com/8932321_400.jpg" />Cocoon, Performance on digital video, 9 mins, 2007 <br /><br />Some young men wander in the desert. In a cave they make the chance discovery of a giant cocoon with female content... In the encounter the young men devour the cocoon, but then as they penetrate into it they do not even realize that the content of the cocoon is a woman. Their actions appear as a fickle mood of fate. The men destroy the woman's fragile protective wrap for a moments' culinary pleasure and leave her behind - deprived of her protection, desinterested in her fate.<br /><br />Cocoon is a video that brings visual inspirations from Man Ray's nude photographies and the sexy armpit from Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's Chien Chien Andalou onto a feminist panel. The viewers' sexual expectations are first stimulated and then playfully led ad absurdum. The cocoon is the poor worm's / woman's longing for transformation, the attempt to withdraw from the world in order to emerge as a new magnificent self. <br /><br />As in many of Wonnenberg's films the puzzling sexual encounters between man and woman remain unsatisfactory. Both parties do not recognize the others needs and desires and their physical contact remains at once naive and yet cruel and destructive. <br /><br />The location of the scenes is a metaphysical place in itself: Cocoon was shot on location at the caves of Qumran in the Judean desert on the shore of the Dead Sea, where in 1947 a Bedouin boy discovered, by coincidence, the oldest surviving Torah scrolls.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><blockquote><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://data.tumblr.com/8931429_400.jpg" />The Orient through Western Eyes <br />video collage, 8 min, 2007 <br /><br />A video collage juxtaposing clips from early silent movies to modern fantasy blockbusters to show how the West has constructed its own image of "the Orient". This art video commissioned by Israel's biggest art museum The Israel Museum Jerusalem was shown in conjunction with its exhibition Eden- East and West. It is a critical visual analysis of the West's cinematographic fantasies of "the Orient". The Middle East and the Land of Israel were an important locus of Western longing, curiosity, fantasy, and apprehension of the “Other”, and these feelings were articulated visually by many artists. This art video juxtaposes clippings from existing footage of Hollywood movies, from their beginnings in the early days of silent movies (such as DeMille’s monumental biblical epics) to contemporary fantasy Blockbusters (such as The Lord of the Rings). The visual confrontations demonstrate how the West has constructed its own image of "the Jew", "the Arab", "the Orient" or -in brief - the necessary and fondly hated "Other" for its own psychological needs.<br /> <br /> </blockquote><br /><br /> <br /><blockquote><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://data.tumblr.com/8931580_400.jpg" />A Turtle‘s Life in the Middle East, 16 mm and Super 8 black/white and color, 10 mins, 2003<br />3Sat / ARTE Prize for Artistic Innovation<br /><br />This is an experimental documentary about fear and how to deal with it after a terror attack. The basis of the film is the childhood memory of a Palestinian, in which the need of protection turned into perverted and absurd violence. The child confronted his seeming enemies, the turtles. "I declared war on turtles...Until they were dead. Then I‘d be very satisfied.“ Contrasting this are an Israeli‘s angry comments. He cannot stand his German girlfriend's questioning him about terror attacks, which she needs for her documentary film, anymore. The images of the film stand in contrast to the interviews: a group of nervous birds and architectural shots of a prison relay the fear that the narrators struggle to repress. The film ends in bitter words juxtaposed with pictures of hope. <br /><br /><br /> </blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://placebokatz.blogspot.com/search?q=WONNENBERG">more</a><br /><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-40801433368756645262007-08-10T07:03:00.000-07:002007-08-10T07:04:32.491-07:00A Summer Evening With Oliver Whitehead<a href="http://directorslounge.net/whitehead.html"target="_blank"> Oliver Whitehead — films from 1967—2007</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/whitehead.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://directorslounge.net/OWsmall.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">O</span>liver Whitehead from Helsinki, who recently showed his work in a retrospective at <a href="http://www.cartes-art.fi/flux/whitehead.html" target="_blank">Cartes Flux Festival</a> in Espoo/Helsinki, comes to Berlin to show his work at <a href="http://www.z-bar.de/" target="_blank">Z-Bar</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.oliverwhitehead.net/" target="_blank">Oliver Whitehead</a> has explored a wide range of fields within arts, such as drawing, painting, photography, computer imaging, film, video, installation, and sound stretching their expressive possibilities, and without respecting boundaries. He thus may be called a ³true media artist². In his early film work, he was influenced by the uprising Film-Coop movement in England and the French Nouvelle Vague. He however stopped making films when coming to Helsinki in 1970, where he since has worked as artist, and partly at Kuva Academy, the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.<br /><br /> In 1991, he has picked up with film and video again, now exploring his personal and built surrounding in most unorthodox ways. In most recent years, film and video have become a main focus in his work.</p><br /><br />see "<a href="http://directorslounge.net/dltv/bike.html" target="_blank">bike</a>" by Oliver Whitehead on <a href="http://directorslounge.net/dltv/bike.html" target="_blank">directorslounge television</a><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br />As in "<a href="http://directorslounge.net/dltv/bike.html" target="_blank">bike</a>", where the camera travels along the shore of the city of Helsinki, his film work mostly evolves from captured impressions. Here, he depicts glances on people, traffic and architecture, edited in an Allegretto rhythm of movements. The film thus reflects the intrinsic meanings of a different but daily perception of urban life and the built surrounding. In "visual violence", a camera travels through contemporary interior public spaces and, as in other films, the captured immediate impressions tell about sensations, which are both political in their direct relationship to the body, and metaphorical in the ways they become examples of a 'bigger picture' of meanings in the world. The films thus are less part of a simulacrum made by the media but they are reflections on visual and media perceptions, and the ways our contemporary and vernacular surrounding can be read in meaningful ways.<br />In Whitehead's later work the subject matter comprises the structures and users of urban settings(...) The visual idiom and the overlaid soundtrack give the works a politically slanted narrative dynamic. The meaning of the films, on the other hand, arises from the combination of cinematography, editing, repetition and thematic combinations. These have an inherent political dimension in the works in that they oppose the solutions typical of commercial cinema." (Hanna Johannson)<br /><br />With two films, <a href="http://www.oliverwhitehead.net/" target="_blank">Oliver Whitehead</a> was already part of this year's Directours Lounge and some further Urban Research screenings. Now, we are proud to be able to give a more deep insight in his film and video work, and have the artist present his work at <a href="http://www.z-bar.de/" target="_blank">Z-Bar</a>. The screening will be the opening of further summer screenings of Directors Lounge in August and September 2007.<br /><br />german text <a href="http://directorslounge.net/whitehead_de.html">here</a><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/whitehead.html"target="_blank">Oliver Whitehead — films from 1967—2007</a><br />Sundag, 12 August 2007, 08:30 pm<br /><a href="http://www.z-bar.de/"target="_blank">Z-Bar</a>, Bergstr. 2, Berlin-Mitte<br /><br /><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-62670065144984472372007-06-03T07:31:00.000-07:002008-09-20T09:58:08.989-07:00Am Rande...<span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• on the edge</strong></span> <strong class="programmtitel">Pyramide, Berlin</strong> <span class="programSub">June 1 - 29, 2007</span><br><br /><br /><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiF2A8AMlR4T0dAXA2Tq7o9mlqzoFpJ6mckCn5L93dur6XlzFNNSwpQ-cd3En0Nr8BX5q57c-qacqPEgHwPTPbsCPe1cP53bsI74NqGQ9111djMzeWlpeS5FtAbYzEWNcvkJftLo5KtbIO/s1600-h/outside.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiF2A8AMlR4T0dAXA2Tq7o9mlqzoFpJ6mckCn5L93dur6XlzFNNSwpQ-cd3En0Nr8BX5q57c-qacqPEgHwPTPbsCPe1cP53bsI74NqGQ9111djMzeWlpeS5FtAbYzEWNcvkJftLo5KtbIO/s400/outside.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071847697308261506" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGLMlmkDIPvNeJeY2pAdsKwSMxGhMvw7TgNYbF_0y7c0V4WNDmO348RiAdpQKhOvUteyMObRsxDKo0L_jrRFYI9cjEUluXVmecQdeS7T36KCeewM4MwxKRYUh0IVOjaMIcSDeu3NDMVrjr/s1600-h/staan.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGLMlmkDIPvNeJeY2pAdsKwSMxGhMvw7TgNYbF_0y7c0V4WNDmO348RiAdpQKhOvUteyMObRsxDKo0L_jrRFYI9cjEUluXVmecQdeS7T36KCeewM4MwxKRYUh0IVOjaMIcSDeu3NDMVrjr/s400/staan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071847697308261522" /></a><br />In the back <em>Staan</em> by Frans van Lent, reflected <em>Misa</em> by Yoel Díaz Vásquez<br /></blockquote><br /><br />An exhibition by Directors Lounge at the Exhibition Centre Pyramide in Hellersdorf.<br /><br /><em>click pics to enlarge</em><br /><br />expand for some more snapshots, read more about Am Rande.. <a href="http://directorslounge.net/amrande.html"target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://directorslounge.net/amrandede.html"target="_blank">here</a> (german)<br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjc1wdU7OOzYFqcY_AWUxKIvpTF_VMVBB1m08LPVYIzHtoX0p76c3k6WZ2axvnq_06DLfsEtRxNvdO7tZoxCavye4_bFGNq5aMjpRs6GAYQzoCJDMWyZbLBaJ6aQivyCMFXf3Ma78Ztmep/s1600-h/pyamide.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjc1wdU7OOzYFqcY_AWUxKIvpTF_VMVBB1m08LPVYIzHtoX0p76c3k6WZ2axvnq_06DLfsEtRxNvdO7tZoxCavye4_bFGNq5aMjpRs6GAYQzoCJDMWyZbLBaJ6aQivyCMFXf3Ma78Ztmep/s400/pyamide.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071847108897741858" /></a><br />Inside this very strange building<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxVr_MDiDDbuEM0stbV-E6XbGIu8caEAeMZUnFbYRcZb2M7eOGFplN3yPEecLF4VtUBnlNfYdFAM831ccu8U01T-oJqZLb0Zru4_Aa7CEoyrqG2YcZ1VWdXRyWjQDEN023jL0PdOFudqh/s1600-h/misa.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxVr_MDiDDbuEM0stbV-E6XbGIu8caEAeMZUnFbYRcZb2M7eOGFplN3yPEecLF4VtUBnlNfYdFAM831ccu8U01T-oJqZLb0Zru4_Aa7CEoyrqG2YcZ1VWdXRyWjQDEN023jL0PdOFudqh/s400/misa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071847113192709186" /></a><br /><em>Misa</em> by Yoel Díaz Vásquez<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkzfjzhWaMOJbIgrB_SIzpgae2QcuQkHqosCAupJsGkORpkCN38n3EznH1AcrM-i4MMEWrGqN5mOB-9K2WuQUgoj6XlOx4JPx49KJX-tdW3fA3e6lPNH71bL8R1Jnvqo8X7XrNewv752p/s1600-h/pistols.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkzfjzhWaMOJbIgrB_SIzpgae2QcuQkHqosCAupJsGkORpkCN38n3EznH1AcrM-i4MMEWrGqN5mOB-9K2WuQUgoj6XlOx4JPx49KJX-tdW3fA3e6lPNH71bL8R1Jnvqo8X7XrNewv752p/s400/pistols.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071847113192709202" /></a><br /><em>Pistolen</em> by Wolfgang Spahn<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMd9szfusKXne7LGgY1xyIXvV2Zb6IvcCXSib4vqXiij7cSAtdNIZ5C__DUE3Kzz68VrHBEi-URxYUBOP7ozXTZAGAywrqn8MJwcrKymSNqxQLhw2ZPVCWu6JpQp22N2D0mszObJ-WUl_s/s1600-h/construct.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMd9szfusKXne7LGgY1xyIXvV2Zb6IvcCXSib4vqXiij7cSAtdNIZ5C__DUE3Kzz68VrHBEi-URxYUBOP7ozXTZAGAywrqn8MJwcrKymSNqxQLhw2ZPVCWu6JpQp22N2D0mszObJ-WUl_s/s400/construct.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071847117487676514" /></a><br /><em>Construct (Two Momemts in Beauty)</em> by Maja Borg<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-Jz15YUwH1UybnIRpl5JdfA-vPsz_Modbo7igucVafKiTbG-gQKpApt1LvL5O9nbIJKPPKdvV9XdEeFMLgy4uL6SG7o8Xp2ewu_sgyElVNnR26Fxo3L_eZhwDfQh_EZ9QwmvawlaMsSz/s1600-h/tothelimit.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-Jz15YUwH1UybnIRpl5JdfA-vPsz_Modbo7igucVafKiTbG-gQKpApt1LvL5O9nbIJKPPKdvV9XdEeFMLgy4uL6SG7o8Xp2ewu_sgyElVNnR26Fxo3L_eZhwDfQh_EZ9QwmvawlaMsSz/s400/tothelimit.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071847353710877810" /></a><br /><em>To The Limit</em> by Andreas Sachsenmaier<br /><br />more pics to follow<br /></span><br /><br />don´t miss the second screening <strong>Friday, June 15</strong> 9 pm<br /><br />location details <a href="http://directorslounge.net/amrande.html"target="_blank">here</a>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-46458680796718166132007-05-24T07:28:00.000-07:002007-05-24T07:29:07.671-07:00Tami Seinfeld<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhMe3Emq8xQIJXWNpw73CN4IufFj0p4pEWY_x8oNw-TH9qnTd8oy_tIoN6aXRnJ0yjyTjmimNx3hiL4eZ4CL80Z6TY_a1iWJUSpctCH_fWy7MTg9SoNGsQrWW1H_nx9fQnOJ3DPfYPcK4/s1600-h/Tami3.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhMe3Emq8xQIJXWNpw73CN4IufFj0p4pEWY_x8oNw-TH9qnTd8oy_tIoN6aXRnJ0yjyTjmimNx3hiL4eZ4CL80Z6TY_a1iWJUSpctCH_fWy7MTg9SoNGsQrWW1H_nx9fQnOJ3DPfYPcK4/s400/Tami3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068131592819513906" /></a><br /><br />With great pleasure do we announce that the beautiful lady pictured here joined <a href="http://directorslounge.net/team.html"target="_blank">Team Directors Lounge</a> on Tuesday as a cognitive mentor. Not much bigger than a Katz she will become a great asset for the future of the whole cinematic universe.placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-42995729553941391792007-05-18T12:56:00.000-07:002007-05-18T13:12:12.928-07:00Stadtrandzone Mitte — Center of Urban Periphery<span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Berlin Premiere</strong></span> <strong class="programmtitel">Sat. 19th May 07, 9 pm</strong> <span class="programSub"><a href="http://www.z-bar.de"target="_blank">Z-Bar</a>, Berlin </span><br><br /><br /><br /><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhsAKXfJDyR1Wk6FuYqV9AlwN0_Dtuz0BEVdbQd-GQcRNr9qC2sFKaiJeUqY2GynRyKGkcIzGM8NTCj4sG8QsG6KMNUD2yJ1-ISGuorcKQPdZF-Pn3ilf-o0e70XiWDgtLY_F4qbDwPSsf/s1600-h/AndreasHermes.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhsAKXfJDyR1Wk6FuYqV9AlwN0_Dtuz0BEVdbQd-GQcRNr9qC2sFKaiJeUqY2GynRyKGkcIzGM8NTCj4sG8QsG6KMNUD2yJ1-ISGuorcKQPdZF-Pn3ilf-o0e70XiWDgtLY_F4qbDwPSsf/s400/AndreasHermes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065993416365644146" /></a>still from <a href="http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesSRZM.html"target="_blank">STADTRANDZONE MITTE</a>, 16 mm, 42 min, 2005<br /><br />How should public space be defined, in our times? - this question has been the point of departure for <a href="http://www.richfilm.de"target="_blank">Klaus W. Eisenlohr's </a>project in Hannover. The resulting film by the Berlin filmmaker and artist takes the viewer on a visual trip through the larger urban area of Hannover and shows portraits of places of various urban qualities. <br />This visual and spatial exploration is being complemented with investigations of "place-making": Public interventions by artists, scenes of everyday public life played by youths, and conversations with local city planers converge in a multi-facetted reflection on public space. In cinematography and visual montage Klaus W. Eisenlohr has accomplish his own personal film language, based on experimental documentary and avant-garde film. Thus, the filmmaker has conceived a complex film essay about everyday urban spaces in the modern European city. <a href="http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesSRZM.html"target="_blank">more</a><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br />expand for german text<br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br />"Was ist öffentlicher Raum heute?" Diese Frage stellte der Filmemacher und Künstler Klaus W. Eisenlohr an den Beginn seiner Recherche über Hannover. Der entstandene Film nimmt den Zuschauer mit auf eine Bilderreise durch öffentliche Plätze im größeren Stadtgebiet der Landeshauptstadt.<br /><br />Mit filmischen Mitteln entstehen Portraits von Orten unterschiedlicher urbaner Qualität. Den Berliner Filmemacher interessieren jedoch nicht nur die sichtbaren Merkmale, sondern auch die Handlungen und Erzählungen, die öffentliche Räume erst entstehen lassen. Weiter geht er der Frage nach, durch welche Eingriffe/Interventionen öffentliche Orte aktiviert werden können. Künstlerische Handlungen, die Reaktionen herausfordern, Inszenierungen von Alltagsbegebenheiten mit Jugendlichen und Begegnungen mit Stadtplanern sind im Film den Stadtbildern gegenüber gestellt. Sie fügen sich zusammen zu einem filmischen Essay über alltägliche Orte einer exemplarischen Stadt der europäischen Moderne. <br /><br />Der Film entstand im Laufe des 6-monatigen Kunstprojektes Stadtrandzone Mitte in Hannover, bei dem Klaus W. Eisenlohr weitere Künstler aus Berlin, Stuttgart und Hannover einlud, an unterschiedlichen Plätzen Performances zu inszenieren. Überdies entstanden Szenen, indem er mit Jugendlichen aus Jugendeinrichtungen szenische Workshops durchführte. Das Projekt wurde unterstützt mit dem „Cast&Cut“-Stipendium der Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover und der nordmedia Fonds GmbH, mit einem zusätzlichen Zuschuß des Kulturbüros der Landeshauptstadt Hannover.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Samstag, 19 Mai 2007, 21 h Z-Bar, Bergstr. 2 </strong><br /><br />Eintritt 4, ermaessigt 3 Euro<br /></span><br /><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Sat. 19th May 07, 9 pm</strong></span> <strong class="programmtitel"><a href="http://www.z-bar.de"target="_blank">Z-Bar</a>, Bergstr. 2</strong> <span class="programSub">U Rosenthaler Platz </span><br>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-85418445891722073952007-05-12T10:51:00.000-07:002007-05-12T10:57:39.974-07:00Urban Research at Urban Explorers<span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Noordkaap</strong></span> <strong class="programmtitel">Dordrecht - Rotterdam</strong> <span class="programSub">12 + 13 May 2007 </span><br><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesExplorers.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbYttsXXNj67oh0UcUWHGLDTedOinlZUuvhyWiXO5EFKbwusw7nMHzD-PaFAxWPrxPXZvhbTKzCHLbDNbXy0vKL-ApRmgdKyTeit4lrbITQ7IoNohtAadk4OSO6_3-lQVCEw5dZaCRfBx/s400/UrbanExplorers2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063730278644016114" /></a><br /><br />Thanks to Katja Diallo/ Noordkaap, a selection of <a href="http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesExplorers.html"target="_blank">Urban Research</a>, one of the major programs of <a href="http://directorslounge.net/"target="_blank">Directors Lounge</a>, can be presented during the <a href="http://www.urbanexplorersfestival.nl/home.php"target="_blank">Urban Explorer festival</a> in the project rooms of Noordkaap, Dordrecht, NL<br /><br /><br /><blockquote>NOORDKAAP // U.E. // PROGRAMMA 11 T/M 13 MEI // FILM Een selectie uit het internationale filmfestival Urban Research, ondersteund door de <a href="http://www.directorslounge.net/"target="_blank">Directors Lounge</a> Berlin. Curator <a href="http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesExplorers.html"target="_blank">Klaus W. Eisenlohr</a></blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://www.noordkaap.org/index1.htm"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiWgu883LaEP9BVujVW0FXGc-yHYFXsBn9Ef_06_zAIHRCJzQvnFDbzZIm_DUTtW9hgiFzZhFi54kd15BQy0tsFICpKSzfWX6LrljRrVhia-D1-OKETbk9K8TZU-a4nDBjmSb2R4ingUAk/s400/Urban-Explorers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063730282938983426" /></a><br /><br /><em>click pics for more</em><br /><br /><a href="http://placebokatz.blogspot.com/search?q=urban+research"target="_blank">related</a><br /><br />expand for full program<br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br />Zaterdag 12 en zondag 13 mei 11h.-18h. in de projectruimte<br /><br /><strong>Roger Warren Beebe</strong> - Strip Mall Trilogy,9:15, USA , 2001 <br /><br />"The Strip Mall Trilogy" is a series of three city symphonies that attempt to liberate color, sound, and form from the sprawling consumerist landscape of postmodern America. Part 1, 'Green Means Go,' presents fragments of color over a musique concrete soundtrack composed of sounds recorded at the strip mall. Part 2, 'The Abecedaire,' wrestles (and later plays) with alphabetic form extracted and abstracted from the signs of commerce of which they are normally a part. Part 3, 'X-formations,' tries to argue that there is, in fact, beauty after strip malls. Let's hope so. <br /><br /><strong>Julie Murray </strong>- Detroit Park , 8:00, USA 2005 <br /><br />Michigan Theatre was an elaborately decorated theater at the heart of a busy and vibrant downtown Detroit in the 1920s. The advent of television in the 1950s saw a significant drop in public performance attendance and it was finally closed in 1967. Sometime in the 1970s it was converted into a parking lot, where floors and ramps were installed with only the most necessary intrusion upon the old interior. Murray's camera is driven by impulses of awe and reflection. In Detroit Park she does not celebrate the 'good old times' but she rather encompasses future and past in one movement that reveales otherwise unseen layers of overlapping times in the urban mesh. <br /><br /><strong>Edita Stepien, Margaret Noble</strong> - Sonata , 18:09, USA 2006 <br /><br />Interested in the collaborative fusion between audio and video, analogue and synthesized, Margaret Noble and Edyta Stepien decided to explore these dichotomies through a contemporary reinterpretation of the classical form 'Sonata.' Through the sounds and imagery of architecture and nature, this piece examines our current environmental conditions. Modeled on a pictorial score and recorded as a live performance mix, "Sonata" alternates between nature and urban industry in the settled terrains of the American Midwest. <br /><br /><strong>Katerina Sedá</strong> - There is Nothing There , 14:00, CZ 2003 <br /><br />Ponetovice. A village close to Brno in Czeque Republique. No post office, no school. One Saturday in May, everybody in town is doing what they usually do on Saturdays; except this time artist Katerina Sedá directed the inhabitants like a real life video game into a synchronism of the ordinary. The film gives a multitude of ideas on the problems and chances of being on the verge between rural and urban life. From the questionaires handed out to the citizens of the village Katerina found out that all families spent Saturdays in the countryside in a similar way. She also discovered that nowadays people from a village live with a certain skepticism, they feel as if all the important things happen in the city and say 'there is nothing' in their village. <br /><br /><br />Vrijdag 11 t/m zondag 13 mei vanaf 21h. window screening<br /><br /><strong>Seppo Renval</strong> - Rumpu Zinfonia , 21 min, FIN 2005 <br /><br />The camera meanders through artificial architectural space: architecture models. All the models represent exsisting buildings in Helsinki. The camera speeds up, the low-resolution video quality and lighting create sensations of real space, of emotional space. Thus, the film reinterprets the imagination and conception of materialized architecture, or more so, the ways architectural space has been depicted before being realized. <br /><br /><strong>Kemmy Thyssen</strong> - In'na City , 7:23, DE, 2005 <br /><br />In 'na City seeks for harmony, connectivity between images and music. A collage with images from the City of Hannover ‹ skyscrapers, traffic, the surface of the city and its mesh ‹ that creates a composition, a new vision. Images and colours become music and rhythm, which complement sounds and beats. Everyday space and vernacular modern architecture are the matrix of pulsing music. <br /><br /><strong>Virgine Laganiere</strong> - The Corridor, 2:26, CAN, 2005 <br /><br />A corridor, passage way between offices, becomes the internal and visible projection of the outside city. Dream, hope or halluzination? Virginie Laganière shows, with very dry humor, imaginary metamorphosis of the daily urban environment. <br /><br /><strong>Ivan Martinez</strong> - Fear Itself ... Yea Right , 7min, USA 2006 <br /><br />"According to the media and government officials we have much to fear, despite what FDR once proclaimed. With anxiety on the rise, running scared is all we have left, at least to warn others of the impending doom. This custom animation and action script allows me to frantically run through the streets typing out my fears for all to know in real time. If needed my character could stop running to converse with someone on the street, but when fear strikes, its off and running again." Fear Itself, by Miami based Ivan Martinez, is a street art projection using custom action script in which he runs scared through the streets typing in his fears which are then projected on building facades. The works combines concepts on the running tiger of Karolina Sobecka´s Wildlife, previoulsly mentioned here and Paul Notzold´s "What/Who Are You Afraid Of?". According to Wooster Ivan started in August doing guerrilla projections of images on the new building developments that are appearing in and around downtown Miami.<br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-38154916749730605432007-05-07T14:02:00.000-07:002007-05-07T14:14:19.742-07:00<span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• call for proposals</strong></span> <strong class="programmtitel">Munich</strong> <span class="programSub">end of July 07</span><br><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/mim01.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvgw7gc4hCjBCEcpeHJAKuEj45S9o30Vn0EWUqj21ZyMVnE7Y71VUgbhyphenhyphenVCvlUQ_Ne_av4B3hDe97YWRlkpxaB4Ta1zCTLbm4jEpKgS7HCxFYl-SyTat3vmmrowxMnFHnE0g9BluG9AOg/s400/mimbanner01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061927388812108626" /></a><br />art in the public space, Munich, end of July 07<br /><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Memory In Motion – new ways of commemoration</strong></span><br /><br />Memory In Motion will present media art that seeeks for new ways of remembrance by using the public space as a stage to challenge the neglecting of history with artistic means. The urban space, that makes history visible as architecture, offers the oportunity to connect artistic questioning with concrete history.<br />Memory In Motion is an intervention into the public space that question the handling of the past, the construction of historiography, the attribution of identity, social and ethnic codes and their reflection in society right there where such a basic discussion should start: in the public.<br /><br />Public space is not a fixed space, it is everywhere, constantly in change, consequently we will be a project in motion, using different spaces for different works and different questions.<br /><br /><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Memory In Motion – call for proposals</strong></span><br><br><br /><br />We welcome any proposal for Memory In Motion, be it a site specific work or an existing film, installation, whatever that could fit into the concept. <a href="mailto:dl@directorslounge.net"target="_blank">Get in touch </a>and we´ll send you the link to the project pages.<br /><br><br /><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Memory In Motion – accompanying program<br /></strong></span><br /><br />Memory In Motion will be accompanied by related screenings, we hope to realize a catalogue and/or a DVD to document the whole project.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For a german version go <a href="http://directorslounge.net/mim01de.html"target="_blank">here</a>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-65168978780041344902007-05-03T08:09:00.000-07:002007-05-03T08:22:31.912-07:00Alli Savolainen • video art from Finland<p class="programmBOX02grey"><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Z Bar</strong></span> <strong class="programmtitel">Bergstr. 2</strong> <span class="programSub">Sat. May 5th, 9pm</span><br><br /><br /><span class="Headlineorange">Special Screening May 2007 Alli Savolainen</span><br><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/alli.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://directorslounge.net/allipaaosa4.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Directors Lounge kindly invites for a personal show of video work by Alli Savolainen <br />curated by <a href="http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesAlli.html"target="_blank">Klaus W. Eisenlohr</a><br /><br />Alli Savolainen will come from Finland to present her video work.<br /><br />Alli Savolainen works with video, photography, sound and painting. She was born in Joensuu, Finland, and she graduated from Lahti Institute of Fine Arts. Since 1986, she is active as artist in Helsinki’s art and film scene. She since has compiled an impressive catalogue of video works which date back until 1989. When writing about her own work, she tells that she is interested in “time continuity and memory”. Saying that, she takes the viewer into a contemplation of the duration of visual moments.<br /><br />In more recent times, Alli Savolainen looks with her camera at cities, street scenes and rural roads, still interested in the poetry of the non-spectacular, vernacular visual environment. <br /><br />She lives and works in Espoo, Finland. (Metropolitan Area of Helsinki)<br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/alli.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ureRl2wFIkF-HvZbtKTd32seHGJdVC0VhV0KNDDYGzhgdWV1aV8Wtj7GXWIe5HCu6h3G8v0WD0pwkOY_NcuDZ6JF2SbPMnsEjlJ8VTo1om4r3ZNJHgrOzg6FGpzIVxppz0Aju52Ql3J6/s400/alliway2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060353021305119378" /></a><br /><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Z Bar Bergstr. 2</strong></span><br><br /><br><br /><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• Berlin Mitte, U-Bahn Rosenthaler Platz</strong></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-15931564879449968552007-03-13T06:55:00.000-07:002007-03-12T19:58:22.357-07:00N•E•M•<span class="Headlineorange">Happy B-day, Nadya</span><br><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/NadyaCazan/nem.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNvnGPQGFA-2G_a4z3ZUYreW2bdZVnl4rcjcypzmLDteQe9H_5ZAm4NgU_UxD6oYv2FmHqSgudFusYiSW9Fu7ErdjEUV0bsE6OHQPY6LiWNvrtNS5E3uYzLSBNJ0s6iACnSnU_gtD2qIM/s400/Nadya2Roma86.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041223719390741970" /></a><br /><br />Today´s the happy day for <a href="http://directorslounge.net/NadyaCazan/index.html"target="_blank">Nadya Cazan</a>, the iconic beauty who represents Directors Lounge <a href="http://placebokatz.blogspot.com/search?q=CAZAN"target="_blank">abroad</a>. Even so she couldn´t join the Lounge in person she´s an essential part of the gang. Not only behind the scenes, but also quiete visible as one of our main flyers is based on her photograph. (Go <a href="http://directorslounge.net/NadyaCazan/nem.html"target="_blank">here</a> for the original.) <br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/NadyaCazan/nem.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixmqWfjViOI3_MONMEh7Cw9BwOz_EKEzE_6H_AKRDSy5USjeCOfs_c1aEVAtg4INrQz9aIxuv29aarOBBQM7B3FiKFfS1uqagbaHmjWfNebz1n8hlHPxGbZiQbrXyeeFH_1_ywqAwztCqg/s400/DL2007nadya1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041223715095774658" /></a><br /><br />buon compleanno from the whole Team DL.placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-55944885254423910072007-02-25T09:40:00.000-08:002007-02-24T09:52:10.916-08:00Sun 25th: This will be the last time<p class="programmBOX02grey"><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>• all night long</strong></span> <strong class="programmtitel">assorted gems</strong> <span class="programSub">for the eyes and for the ears</span><br><br /> <span class="Headlineorange">Hot Jazz and Cinelicious Tidbits</span><br><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/205774/gse_multipart25060.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/205774/gse_multipart25060.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><em>The hottest jazz in town, Les Haferflocken Swingers turning the Lounge upside down</em><br /><br />Sunday will be the very last night to enjoy Directors Lounge.<br />Join us for an assortment of fine films, delicious cocktails and the hottest jazz and swing outside of New Orleans.placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-763405623835825712007-02-24T09:21:00.000-08:002007-02-24T09:30:23.106-08:00Sat 24th: Soy Thomas • Soy Cuba<span class="Headlineorange">Happy B-day, Thomas</span><br><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/543796/gse_multipart25031.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/543796/gse_multipart25031.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Thomas, member of the gang since the very first days, chief bartender of Directors Lounge and acclaimed master of the mochito is celebrating his birthday tonight.<br />One more reason to join the fun before it´s over.<br /><br />Cheers from the whole Team DL.placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-89819168178385377512007-02-23T10:34:00.000-08:002007-02-21T11:17:22.610-08:00Fri 23th. Les Haferflocken Swingers<p class="programmBOX02grey"><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>•22 h • 10 pm</strong></span> <strong class="programmtitel"><a href="http://haferflocken.net/">Les Haferflocken Swingers</a></strong> <span class="programSub">Sweat, chaos and voodoo cirqus!</span><br><br /> <span class="Headlineorange">Hot Jazz and Gypsy Music from Berlin </span><br><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/335650/gse_multipart8510.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/335650/gse_multipart8510.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><em>the proper way to handle the bass; Flocko Motion of Les Haferflocken Swingers jamming with Markus of Don Bad´Habong during the Farewell night.</em><br /><br />Sweat, chaos and voodoo cirqus! "<a href="http://haferflocken.net/">Les Haferflocken Swingers</a>", a international Berlin based Party Jazz troupe, hypnotize with hot'n'dirty Jazz.<br /><br />Schweiss, Chaos und Voodoo-Zirkus! "Les Haferflocken Swingers" begeistern mit dem dreckigsten Hot-Jazz Berlins.<br /></p><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><p class="programmBOX02grey"><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/866548/gse_multipart15621.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/866548/gse_multipart15621.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Formed back in October 2001 by Jimmy Monahan, Suk Mortalis and Flocko Motion as the "Rabbiz of Breaktanz", soon renamed as "Haferflocken Swingers", they started playing cheap Klezmer and Hot Jazz. Though in the beginning they sounded more like a screeching bunch of chainsaws out of tune, people were soon able to unplug their ears and even smile during their wicked performances.<br />Their journeys have driven them to many countries with their crew constantly changing, performing with weirdos and nutmegs from all over the universe.<br /><br />Im Oktober 2001 von Jimmy Monohand, Suk Mortalis und Flocko Motion als "Rabbiz of Breaktanz" gegründet doch bald zu "Haferflocken Swingers" umbenannt, begannen sie billigen Klezmer und Hot-Jazz zu spielen. Am Anfang klangen sie wie ein Bündel kreischend verstimmter Kettensägen bis es irgendwann den ersten Leuten möglich war, während der Performances ihre Ohren zu entstöpseln oder sogar laut zu lächeln. Ihre Irrwege katapultierten sie durch aller Herren Länder, mit stets wechselnder Besetzung aus kaputten Halbtalenten und Pseudo-Affen performierend und perforierend.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-54902521918323359512007-02-20T11:36:00.000-08:002007-02-20T11:38:03.403-08:00Visual Poetry • Ann Noel and Emmett Williams<a href="http://directorslounge.net/dltv/emmett.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinclPtUeg166vlbnPY400RITDmyAtRqqrIBWtjg3pXB6ujUJrCeS7YVQJWzr9V3zs-mxCjxAGkEWKP63cOyYTeT_oU_K5bnjmoHS2Y0K4dDfF2TqEJ7JlH5JbFN57oBIZDgVOpQZry_ykX/s400/emmet014.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033696664520894594" /></a><br /><br /><blockquote><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">E</span>mmet Williams and his longtime companion Ann Noel performed on May 24th, 1997 at the Kurt Tucholsky memorial, Castle Rheinsberg. Hinrich Peters filmed the event on location. This <a href="http://directorslounge.net/dltv/emmett.html"target="_blank">short impression</a> of Emmett Williams performing life with Ann Noel was screened subsequent to the presentation of the ZEBRA poetry and film awards in honour to Emmett Williams who died on Wednesday, 14th of February in Berlin.<br />Click on the pictures to see the <a href="http://directorslounge.net/dltv/emmett.html"target="_blank">video</a>.</blockquote><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><a href="http://directorslounge.net/dltv/emmett.html"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3EvUo5TmCquYVY4hfzknyDwml61VJ2_gy_UgKMhHH89uAt4eW9O-R9mM_AVFyDLzlyaLVVOPHQOXLJNUziX1jFF7PTbUmqJno2Oc5F6QLlRtwfg3sTBXnhQGi41w1utPGRxFiQvaMCTS/s400/emmet024.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033696664520894610" /></a><br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/"target="_blank">Jan Hermann</a> has posted a <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/archives/2007/02/post_11.html"target="_blank">conversation with Emmett</a> that gives an additional insight and is worth a reading. snippet:<br /><em>"I was a pretty good bartender once," he went on. "And foreman of a landfill project. I can wield a mean axe in the forest, too. Yes, I'd call myself a poet before anything else, though I wouldn't call it my occupation. Call it my preoccupation. Making poetry is the thing I've always done, or wanted to do, whatever else I was trying to accomplish. The thing that interrupts whatever else I'm doing. A 'disturbance' that I can't tune out."</em></blockquote><br /><br /> </p><br /><br /><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-18194794504562751392007-02-18T10:02:00.000-08:002007-02-18T10:12:59.109-08:00DL 07 • Extended<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/198403/gse_multipart46557.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/198403/gse_multipart46557.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>night view<br /> <p class="fliesstext01"><span class="Headlineorange">• Directors Lounge 2007 • The Extended Version • One More Week </span></p><br />We are pleased to announce that the Lounge stays open for one more week.<br />Expect assorted highlights from Directors Lounge as well as cinemaic surprises. Don´t hesitate to bring your own movies. <br /><br />Publikum erzwingt Verlaengerung! Noch eine Woche lang besteht die Moeglichkeit taeglich ausgewaehlte Perlen der Directors Lounge 2007 in gepflegter Atmosphaere zu geniessen. Ueberaschungsfilme aus unserer Sammlung werden das Programm abrunden. <br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/480547/gse_multipart46555.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/480547/gse_multipart46555.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>shortly before screeningplaceboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-47685872783768427422007-02-15T08:18:00.000-08:002007-02-15T12:47:41.384-08:00Honouring Emmett Williams<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/690188/gse_multipart17924.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/690188/gse_multipart17924.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">E</span>mmett Williams, artist and poet, died the day before yesterday, February 14, 2007 in Berlin. Emmett Williams, who collaborated with Daniel Spoerri in the Darmstadt circle of concrete poetry from 1957 to 1959 was the European coordinator of Fluxus, and a founding member of the Domaine Poetique in Paris, France. His theater essays have appeared in Das Neue Forum, Berner Blatter, Ulmer Theater, and other European magazines. Williams translated and reanecdoted Daniel Spoerri's Topographie Anecdotee du Hasard (An Anecdoted Topography of Chance), collaborated with Claes Oldenburg on Store Days, and edited An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, all published by the Something Else Press (owned and managed by fellow Fluxus artist Dick Higgins in New York and Vermont). In 1996 he received the Hannah-Hösch-Preis for his life work.<br />To honour Emmett Williams we will screen the short video work Emmett 06 by fellow Fluxus artist Wolf Kahlen subsequent to the presentation of the ZEBRA poetry and film awards, tomorrow, <strong>Sat 17th</strong> around 9:30 pm.<br /><strong>Emmett 06</strong> will be screened in world premiere.<br /> </p><br /><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">E</span>mmett Williams, der US-amerikanische Dichter, Perfomance-Künstler und Mitbegründer der Fluxusbewegung, verstarb vorgestern, Dienstag dem 14. Februar 2007 in Berlin. Er war Präsident des Internationalen Künstlermuseums in Lodz. 1996 wurde er für sein Lebenswerk mit dem Hannah-Höch-Preis der Berlinischen Galerie ausgezeichnet. 1966 veröffentlichte er den erotischen Gedichtband "sweethearts", der zu seinen wichtigsten Werken zählt, und 1992 sein autobiografisches Werk "My Life in Flux – and Vice Versa". Seit 1956 experimentierte Emmett Williams mit seinen Procedural Poems, ohne einen Computer zu benötigen − er ersetzte die Buchstaben des Titels des zu schreibenden Gedichtes durch zufällig ausgewählte Wörter, so dass sich daraus wie durch ein Computerprogramm ein künstlicher Text generierte. <br />Als Würdigung seines Werkes zeigen wir morgen, <strong>Samstag 17.2</strong>., im Anschluss an die Präsentation der ZEBRA film and poetry awards die Videoarbeit Emmett 06, des Freundes und Künstlerkollegen Wolf Kahlen.<br /><strong>Emmett 06</strong>, 2006, 4 min. wird in Weltpremiere gezeigt.<br /><br /> </p>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-42411337629464156552007-02-14T22:06:00.000-08:002007-02-14T07:24:18.635-08:00Tonight: The Making Of • Mi wed 14 02<p class="programmBOX02grey"><br /><span class="NewsFlash2"><strong>•18 h 30 • 6:30 pm</strong></span><strong class="programmtitel">The Making Of</strong> <span class="programSub">a film by <a href="http://www.sredafilm.com/" target="_blank">Viola Stephan</a> </span><br><br /> <span class="Headlineorange">a documentary about vision, neuroscience and filmmaking </span><strong><br><br /> • Viola Stephan</strong><strong> </strong>DE <span class="Orangebold">The Making OF </span>86 min, 35mm, 2005<br><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/1600/300079/EulenBaby.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/400/359524/EulenBaby.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />How creative is science ? <br />How objective is filmmaking ?<br />Seeing is believing - a documentary about vision, neuroscience and filmmaking<br /><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><!-- START FreeVideoCoding.com --><br /><embed src="http://a-and-o.org/upload/themakingof.mov" width="480" height="286" autoplay="true" controller="true" type="video/quicktime" scale="tofit" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"> </embed><br /><!-- END FreeVideoCoding.com --><br /><br /> <p class="programmBOX02grey"><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/1600/219311/1Akt_FliegenKino_1.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/400/105802/1Akt_FliegenKino_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /> Ein heiterer Essay ueber die Verbindung von Denken, Wahrnehmen und Kino, Kopfkino im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes, das anregt, Kino anders zu betrachten, als wir es bisher taten: Denn Film ist nicht nur Unterhaltung, sondern die Quintessenz unseres Denkens und Fuehlens, eine Analogie, die uns letztendlich tiefer zu uns selbst bringt.<br><br /> <a href="http://www.kino-zeit.de/filme/artikel/5985_the-making-of.html" target="_blank"><em>Joachim Kurz</em></a><br /><br /></p><br /><br><br /><br /> <p class="programmBOX02grey"><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/1600/431076/2Akt_Andi_6.jpg"target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/400/680201/2Akt_Andi_6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Starring <strong>Andreas Oehler</strong>, director of Hunger nach Heimat, to be screened afterwards. <br><br /> </p><br /> <p><span class="programSub">In attendance of <a href="http://www.sredafilm.com/" target="_blank">Viola Stephan</a> </span></p><br /><br /><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-82592139760352500282007-02-14T19:32:00.000-08:002007-02-14T06:56:22.433-08:00Tonight: Animate Locate • Mi wed 14 02<p class="programmBOX02grey"><strong class="NewsFlash2">• 22 h • 10 pm</strong> <span class="programmtitel"><strong>Animation</strong></span> <span class="NewsFlash2">curated by Kim Collmer </span><br /><br /><strong>Animate Locate</strong> <br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/1600/772708/KimCollmer01.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/400/347854/KimCollmer01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">I</span>t is all about location- locations which give us comfort or discomfort, allow us to imagine, to laugh, squirm, locations that transport us or bring us quickly, and sometimes harshly, back to reality. Again we present animated shorts from stop-motion to pure CG. Highlights and emerging artists from all parts of the world will give an overview of the actual state of this specific genre. Curated by Kim Collmer of "<a href="http://www.kimcollmer.com/form_motion.htm"target="_blank">Forming Motion</a>" fame.<br /> </span><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><blockquote><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/1600/681569/frigidaire.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/400/175574/frigidaire.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><strong>• Virgilio Villoresi</strong> and <strong>Vivì Ponti</strong> IT <span class="Orangebold">Fridgedaire</span> 5 min 41 s, cut-out, 2005<br><br />Frigidaire is a stop motion animation about the birth, transformation, death and resurrection of a young girl. A hand takes her through a mad trip inside the house "Frigidaire". We took images from old magazines from the 40's-60's and from our reasearch of old books. The video is made with the collage technic and the sound is made by cuttings of old film. This is our first video together.<br /><em>Virgilio Villoresi and Vivì Ponti</em></blockquote><br /><br /><br /> <span class="Headlineorange">Animate Locate </span><br><br /><br /> <strong>• Johannes Nyholm</strong><strong> </strong>SE <span class="Orangebold">The Tale of Little Puppetboy<br><br /> </span> 4 min 20 s, stop motion, 2005<br><br /> <strong>• Virgilio Villoresi</strong> and <strong>Vivì Ponti</strong> IT <span class="Orangebold">Fridgedaire</span> 5 min 41 s, cut-out, 2005<br><br /> <strong>• Meredith Root </strong>US <span class="Orangebold">Anxiety Invention </span> 3 min, hand-drawn, 2006<br><br /> <strong>•<strong> Norma V Toray </strong></strong>US <span class="Orangebold">Army of Me</span> 4 min 8 s, mixed media, 2004<br><br /> <strong>• Anita Allyn </strong><strong></strong>US <span class="Orangebold">Imaginary Lines</span> 2 min 20 s, DV, 2005<br><br /> <strong>• Thessia Machado </strong>BR/US <span class="Orangebold">Today I'm Here </span> 48 s, pixellation, 2006<br><br /> <strong>•<strong> Eric Dyer </strong></strong>US <span class="Orangebold">Copenhagen Cycles</span> 6 min 35 s, zoetrope, 2005<br><br /> <strong>• Kim Collmer </strong>DE/US <span class="Orangebold">Berlin Skin </span> 2 min, mixed media, 2007<br><br /> <strong>•<strong> Cecilia Lundqvist </strong></strong>SE <span class="Orangebold">Making Pancakes</span> 4 min 58 s, hand-drawn, 2005<br><br /> <strong>• Hei Cheng </strong><strong></strong>GB <span class="Orangebold"> Board </span> 1 min, stop motion, 2005<br><br /> <strong>• Lisa Barcy </strong>US <span class="Orangebold">Mermaid </span> 15 min, stop motion, 2007<br><br /> <strong>•<strong> *David Shrigley/ Chris Shepard </strong></strong>GB <span class="Orangebold">Who I Am And What I Want<br><br /> </span> 7 min 20 s, hand-drawn, 2006<br><br /> </p><br /> <p class="programmBOX02grey"><span class="programSub">Looped before and after the show:</span><br><br /> <strong>• Johannes Nyholm</strong> and<strong> Jen DeNike </strong>SE/US <span class="Orangebold"> Fever Dreams </span> Shot footage and animation, 2006<br><br /> <strong>• Fawn Krieger </strong>US <span class="Orangebold">New World</span> cut-out , 2004<br><br /> </p><br /> <p></p><br /><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-69180467632359234522007-02-13T10:04:00.000-08:002007-02-12T07:15:42.873-08:00some facesmore snapshots of the cinematic crowd<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/947251/gse_multipart37770.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/947251/gse_multipart37770.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>devoutly listening to the words of Cosima Reif<br /><br /><em>expand for more</em><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/953198/gse_multipart38100.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/953198/gse_multipart38100.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>The enchanting Mrs Pure Chance, Cosima Reif, while illuminating prepotenz as well as ingenuity, that may sparkle in the eyes of the young Viennese lads.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/240927/gse_multipart38118.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/240927/gse_multipart38118.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Catherine Forster of LiveBox Chicago with fellow director Galina Schevchenko<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/154000/gse_multipart38123.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/154000/gse_multipart38123.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Kim Collmer, artistic curator of <strong>Animate Locate</strong> (14.2. 10 pm)with friend Jennifer<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/985031/gse_multipart38117.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/985031/gse_multipart38117.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Longest F. Stein of gallery KMZA during his presentation of video pioneer Wolf Kahlen.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/22536/gse_multipart38114.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/22536/gse_multipart38114.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Video pioneer Wolf Kahlen discussing his work after the screening.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/668487/gse_multipart38113.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/668487/gse_multipart38113.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Video artist Vadim Schaeffler who´s work <strong>Motion</strong> is on display.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/804139/gse_multipart38110.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/804139/gse_multipart38110.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Joppel, projectionist of the Lounge teaching director aE3 the future of revolution.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/449134/gse_multipart38119.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/449134/gse_multipart38119.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>It isn´t unusual that some guests start to sing for no specific reason. Shown here is Phips of Raga Gaga Gang fame.<br /><br /><br /> <br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-86460422659641753292007-02-12T07:11:00.000-08:002007-02-10T09:15:02.328-08:00Nice Bombs tonight at 8pm<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6378/296/1600/50.jpg"><img style="display:left; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6378/296/400/50.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><em>Director Usama Alshaibi, who loves to pose with guns, during the shooting of Nice Bombs in Baghdad</em><br /><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="float:left;color:#DE7008;font-size:70px;line-height:50px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:5px;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Verdana,Sans-Serif;">U</span>sama Alshaibi was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1969. His work in film and video has been screened at numerous film festivals and venues across the United States and abroad. He has completed one narrative feature titled Muhammad and Jane, and more than thirty shorts.<br />Usama is the founder and Director of the Z Film Festival and film/video curator for specialized screenings that have received critical accolades. In addition to reaching an ecclectic audience with his video and film work, Alshaibi's photography has been included in several print and web publications.<br />Usama and his wife Kristie Alshaibi returned to his birthplace in Iraq to shoot his first feature documentary titled Nice Bombs. In 2004 Usama became co-owner of Artvamp, a multi-media production company founded by Kristie.<br /> </p><br /><br />To see the trailer of Nice Bombs<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><!-- START FreeVideoCoding.com --><br /><embed src="http://a-and-o.org/NiceBombs_trailer.mov" width="320" height="213" autoplay="true" controller="true" type="video/quicktime" scale="tofit" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"> </embed><br /><!-- END FreeVideoCoding.com --><br /><br />Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Nice Bombs 92 min, DV, 2006 mon 12 02 8pm<br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-66148880739404554482007-02-10T09:07:00.000-08:002007-02-09T10:53:42.125-08:00opening snaps IIsome more snapshots from the opening<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/646215/gse_multipart28291.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/646215/gse_multipart28291.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Director Andreas Gogol, he will present his work on tues 13 02 <br /><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/393588/gse_multipart28304.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/393588/gse_multipart28304.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Djane Hatifa Zou<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/45295/gse_multipart28293.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/45295/gse_multipart28293.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Multimedia artist and video pioneer Wolf Kahlen, his work will be presented tonight.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/181475/gse_multipart28289.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/181475/gse_multipart28289.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>André Werner and Andreas Gogol<br /><br /><em>all pictures by Klaus W. Eisenlohr</em><br /> <br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-60378279158256545342007-02-09T10:28:00.000-08:002007-02-08T07:30:52.336-08:00Dancing The Night Awaysome drunken snapshots from the opening<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/672325/gse_multipart43687.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/672325/gse_multipart43687.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>The hottest Swing around, played by Don Bad´Habong <br /><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/277907/gse_multipart43680.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/277907/gse_multipart43680.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Mistress in charge, Ania from Team DL<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/971026/gse_multipart43677.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/971026/gse_multipart43677.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Multimedia artist and director aE3 explaining the world of cinema shortly after his arrival from Nantes<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/140697/gse_multipart43683.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/140697/gse_multipart43683.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>a cozy corner in the lounge area<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/942389/gse_multipart43684.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/942389/gse_multipart43684.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Don Bad´Habong still playing even so they couldn´t stand anymore<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/137734/gse_multipart60975.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4532/4708/1600/z/137734/gse_multipart60975.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Dancing the night away, Djane Hatifa Zou and Marbo Becker, actor and founder of the Rote Loge<br /><br /><br />more snaps to follow<br /> <br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928247447903223665.post-31212748597403523722007-02-08T20:08:00.000-08:002007-02-07T19:22:36.595-08:00Willkommen • Bienvenue<p><strong class="NewsFlash2">Join us at the </strong><strong class="programmtitel">Opening Night </strong></p><br /><br /> <p><span class="Headlineorange">Willkommen • Bienvenue </span></p><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/1600/253216/Dubus2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/6378/296/400/5177/Dubus2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><em>still from AV RU Dubus 4 min 9s, DV, 2005</em><br /><br /> <p>Join us celebrating the opening of the third Berlin <span class="Rotbold">Directors</span> <span class="Orangebold">Lounge</span> <span class="Rotbold">2007</span> with Heavy Swing by <strong>Don Bad´Habong</strong>, Loungy Tunes by Djane <strong>Hatifa Zou</strong>, cocktails and <strong>cinelicious tidbits</strong>. <br><br /> Feiert mit uns die Eroeffnung der dritten Berliner <span class="Rotbold">Directors</span> <span class="Orangebold">Lounge</span> <span class="Rotbold">2007</span> mit Heavy Swing von <strong>Don Bad´Habong</strong>, den Loungy Tunes von Djane Hatifa Zou, Cocktails und <strong>guten Filmen</strong>.<br />Die Türen öffnen sich um 20 Uhr für eine Nacht voller Überraschungen.</p><br /> <p> </p><br /> <p><span class="Headlineorange">welcome cocktails </span></p><br /> <p>Enjoy some teasing compilation from all flavours of this years <span class="Rotbold">Directors</span> <span class="Orangebold">Lounge</span> <span class="Rotbold">2007</span><br /> Geniesst Begruessungscocktails als Einstieg in die <span class="Rotbold">Directors</span> <span class="Orangebold">Lounge</span> <span class="Rotbold">2007</span></p><br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><br /> <p><span class="Headlineorange">welcome cocktail 1 </span></p><br />The first mix will start with the birth of cinema building a bridge to contemporary cinema within minutes. You will dive into the festival circuit and under the water. We will celebrate american sillyness, and say what we want, No to family values. And last but not least we will listen to the breathing and squeaking of reduced food packages. Just to name a bit.<br /><br />Der erste Mix beginnt da wo das Kino das Licht der Welt erblickte, schlägt innerhalb von wenigen Minuten die Brücke ins 21 Jahrhundert, lobhudelt amerikanische Dusseligkeit, taucht ein in Licht- und Festivalwelten, sagt was er will, sagt nein zu "family values" und verschafft dem Quieken des Instant Futters eine Plattform. Um nur einiges zu nennen.<br /><br /> <p><span class="Headlineorange">welcome cocktail 2 </span></p><br />The second part explores the sensual relation of a girl and a squid, enters the Brazilian night, listen to the wind and, in the end, realizes that some girls are beasts.<br /><br />Im zweiten Teil erfahren wir mehr über die sinnlichen Beziehungen einer jungen Frau zu einem Oktopus, verlieren uns in der brasilianischen Nacht, lauschen dem Wind und müssen erkennen, dass manche Mädchen Bestien sind.<br /><br /> <p><span class="Headlineorange">welcome cocktail 3 </span></p><br /><br />The third part of our journey through the pictures let the music play, follows mans best friend, questions truth, experiences the law of love, seeks new friendships and realizes the cosmic order: "Boy meets Girl" "Girl leaves Boy" "Boy meets DVD"..<br />As you know, three things enhances every movie: Cyborgs, Zombies, Ninjas<br /><br /><br />Im dritten Teil unserer Reise durch die Bilder spielen wir zum Tanze auf, folgen unserem treuesten Freund, fragen nach Wahrheit, erfahren die Macht der Liebe, suchen neue Freunde und erkennen die ewige Abfolge: "Boy meets Girl" "Girl leaves Boy" "Boy meets DVD"..<br />Drei Dinge sind es die jeden Film verbessern: Ninjas, Cyborgs, Zombies.<br /><br /></span>placeboKatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00112035280486870095noreply@blogger.com0