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

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

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

By Andrew Horn
I remember once reading what I thought was an amusing quote by Joseph Campbell which was something about how he thought computers were like religion - you expect them to solve all your problems but in fact they drive you crazy.
The same could be said for the whole so-called digital filmmaking thing. That Continue Reading

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

I started off Saturday with “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present” playing in the Panorama. During "Iron Sky", I met a critic friend of mine and asked her if she had seen it. She acknowledged that it was ok but semi dismissed it as “typical HBO”. But okay, I’m interested in Marina Abramovic Continue Reading