I must have missed the press release. You know how, when a singer has a new album out, they're suddenly on the covers of all the magazines that week because someone sent out a press release? That's what happened this week, only with an idea, not a cultural artifact. And the idea is one I'm Continue Reading

realeyz.tv caught up with Timo Jacobs, the star and co-director of achtung berlin feature competition entry KLAPPE COWBOY! (Clapper Cowboy!) at Saturday's festival party. The extremely low budget labor of love (although not that low budget, says Jacobs, if everyone had been paid “humane wages” and not deferred their fees), produced over a period of Continue Reading

Berlin ist ein Traum. Oder doch eine Projektion? Oder eine Illusion? Europe, eine junge Pariserin, möchte nach Berlin. Doch sie ist blind und will dort eigentlich nur den Vater ihres Kindes treffen. Der Dicke, ein stummer Biertrinker aus Paris, möchte nach Berlin, weil er dort Personen von einem Kindheitsfoto wiederzufinden hofft. Und für Bomber, den Continue Reading

It's almost a platitude to say that No Wave director Amos Poe rocks with his  camera like musicians do with their axes. His filmography includes not only neo-noir featuring the likes of Deborah Harry and John Lurie, experimental films with stellar soundtracks and music docs like "Blank Generation", "Night Lunch" and "Steve Earle: Just an Continue Reading

Michael Corcoran is a provocateur. He always has been, ever since he's been writing. When he landed in Austin in the 1980s, he made a big splash. Even people who'd never read him knew that he had tattoos, which hadn't yet caught on, let alone become almost mandatory. And among his tattoos was, well, one Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
A week or so ago, a friend of mine sent me an email about one of the few remaining film labs in New York, called Duart. It said,
"They're now cleaning out their film vaults, which means they're looking for the owners of film that has been there for, potentially, decades. If there's anything Continue Reading

As those of you who follow my other blog know, for the past five weeks I've been careening around North America. Needless to say, this meant some ingenuity when packing, especially if I were going to acquire anything over there, as I inevitably do. I was going to hit two distinct climate zones, for one Continue Reading

I ate breakfast this morning in a modest cafe near my hotel, chosen because the hotel gives you a free breakfast there. At the next table, four German women chatted away, and I was reminded of all the other Germans I've bumped into during the five weeks I've spent on the road in the U.S Continue Reading