Amos Poe Update

Amos Poe, director of No Wave/post punk film classics such as THE FOREIGNER and NIGHT LUNCH as well as the more recent Warhol homage EMPIRE II, will see a busy fall.

His latest film La COMMEDIA di Amos Poe raised $20,000 for post production completion (target was $12,000) on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. La COMMEDIA di Amos Poe, a contemporary re-telling of Dante’s Divine Comedy with references to photographer/proto-cinema pioneer Eadward Muybridge, will premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival in late September. (more…)

SCREENDANCING A Retrospective of Berlin Club Visuals

Exhibition at the .HBC Berlin   May 07 -  June 03, 2010 · Tue - Sat. 2 pm -10 pm

Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9

10178 Berlin

Berlin is one of the main international hubs of club culture. During the 1990’s clubbing was restyled into an artform.  Since then video performance is a standard feature of night life. Artists combine light shows with video art and vjing. “Screendancing” is an exhibition that for the first time celebrates the milestones of this underground art form.

http://screendancing.net/

You can watch a film about Berlin nightlife on realeyz.tv called BERLIN NOW . Or you can explore video art and the art of VJing in: Video Out or have a look at a film about light art: LUMIA

….We Have A Dream and Still We Rise….

XXV. Black International Cinema Berlin 2010 (May 4-8)

We have a dream!

We came from privileged backgrounds in the USA. Families intact, sufficient economic resources, university education, travel, etc. All of these we took for granted. When we were young, we thought everyone had the same lifestyle. As we matured, we became aware of how mistaken we were. (more…)

A COMPLEXION CHANGE - International & Intercultural Diplomacy

XXV. BLACK INTERNATIONAL CINEMA BERLIN

GERMANY & USA 2010

MAY 4-8

Rathaus Schöneberg (city hall)

John-F.-Kennedy-Platz

10825 Berlin-Schöneberg

“Footprints in the Sand?”

Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre

in association with international artists

Photographic Exhibition - Visual Documentation

JUNE 1-30

Rathaus Schöneberg (city hall) foyer

in cooperation with Commissioner for Integration, District Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin (more…)

Argentina: Remembering with Film | Victoria | 24.3., ACUD Kino, Berlin

FDCL

The 24^th of March is the anniversary of the 1976 military putsch in Argentina. This is not a reason to celebrate but it does represent a chance to look back, and remember. The military made tens of thousands people disappeared - had them murdered – during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. Although that dictatorship is history, the crimes committed by the murderers and their helpers have never been legally prosecuted. In memory of Argentina’s military putsch and dictatorship we are showing the documentary film Victoria , a story of a one’s person fate that represents a fate suffered by many. (more…)