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

Eva Sterk is a Berlin-based singer-songwriter group with post rock overtones. Their latest music clip for the tune "No Note" was shot in the suburbs of Eastern Berlin and directed by realeyz.tv video blogger Laura Huertas Zurriaga. Some other members of the realeyz.tv team and their families are also involved.
The clip's considerable charm lies in Continue Reading

This next post from MusicFilmWeb is Andy Markowitz’s interview with Phil Grabsky, director of BOY WHO PLAYS ON THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN and many music-themed docs and TV series, including ESCAPE FROM LUANDA, which portrays an Angolan music school. First published on December 1, 2008, the interview offers still timely insights into life in Angola Continue Reading

SoftwareDR (Dirk Roth) has created an amazing shot by shot recreation of Joy Division’s career-making live rendition of “Transmission” on Tony Wilson’s show “Something Else” on Granada TV. Wilson was a British TV journalist who later founded the Manchester-based Factory Records, the label Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays and many other seminal post punk Continue Reading

"Moan", the brooding 2009 club smash by Danish electronica musician and producer Trentemøller (who also contributed to the soundtrack of realeyz documentary COMPLAINTS CHOIR), served as the inspiration by Nils Strüven's award-winning short film HEARTWORK. Beautifully acted by an ensemble cast featuring Sarah Gerstner, Klaas Malorny, Axel Hartwig, Philine Proft and Georg Lehmann, HEARTWORK is Continue Reading

Mario Mentrup, co-director of I DO ADORE, CITY OF LIGHT and THE EAGLE IS GONE, is a renaissance man of sorts. He acts in film, television and theater and is also a musician. In the 80s and 90s he fronted the Krautrock-noise band Knochen=Girl:

In 2004 he founded Pasadena Project, a frequent contributor to Mentrup's film Continue Reading

The stark black and white video presents essentially a one-woman show featuring singer Soffy O (with a blink and you'll miss it Hitchcockian cameo by Mentrup). Soffy O's evocative facial expressions carry the clip - the dialogue she silently mouths is besides the point, the real action lies in her batting an eye or minutely Continue Reading

His achievements as a curator and activist, along with his noteworthy body of work as a filmmaker, are currently being celebrated at Kino Arsenal. Film screenings include works Speck has directed- such as the East-West clandestine love story Westler - East of the Wall or his experimental docudrama about Klaus and Erika Mann Escape to Continue Reading

In the latest issue of Berlin listings magazine tip, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, co-director ofArsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, discusses online film distribution with Cargo film magazine co-publisher Ekkehard Knörer.
The Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art is a realeyz.tv channel partner.

In the  Contort Yourself! film and lecture series at Hebbel am Ufer, curators Christian Höller and Christoph Gurk screened rarely seen films that were made in late 1970s/early 1980s New York in the context of post-punk music, post-underground cinema and post modern art. The term coined for this “movement”, No Wave was not embraced by Continue Reading