By Andrew Horn
A film festival centered on the city of Berlin can, and one could say should, certainly include films about getting the hell out of Berlin.
One film that gets us out of town and into the wilds of East Brandenburg is “Der Ausflug”, which begins as a sunny little story of a family picnic Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
The Achtung Berlin Film festival is by no means on the scale of the Berlinale, but still no less a potential to see some decent films. Any festival has many more films than you could, or would want to, ever see and one’s impression is, more often than not, significantly due to the Continue Reading

I didn't know what to expect when I visited the Gerhard Richter exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin a couple days ago. In fact, I must admit that it is only recently that I have first heard about Gerhard Richter. Before going to the exhibition, a friend who is an artist told me that 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

Innocent young woman menaced by Glomper; her life saved by the device in her hand. The person accompanying the beast told us that Glomper "means something in Russian." Now, no *way* that goes on my computer!

By Andrew Horn
I used to be a big fan of Guy de Maupassant and in fact I once made a film based on three of his stories - I used to describe it as a story within a story, in which one of the characters tells a story. So I, of course, also read Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn

Leave it to the Forum to program a film about concrete. All kidding aside - actually only some kidding aside - the film "Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi" is about the architect, Nervi, insofar as it documents his various buildings, all designed for his material of choice, poured concrete (concrete in German is Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn

With literally 100s of films on offer at the Berlinale, it’s always hard to know what films to go see based on just the small descriptions given in the catalogues. Sometimes films that appear dire can turn out to be interesting and sometimes things that look like a must-see turn out to be Continue Reading

Flavorpill, the music/film/art geek's ultimate online information source, just published their list of most anticipated art exhibitions in 2012. Among them, a show Keith Haring's early works at the Brooklyn Museum. Sure, Haring is often cited as an example of ultimate co-optation of underground voices by the mainstream. Haring's distinctive, stylized figures with bold outlines Continue Reading