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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

The famous Berliner painter Elvira Bach is turning 60.
On the occasion of her birthday, the «Galerie Brennecke Berlin»  shows 16 of her paintings until June, 13th. Characteristic for the paintings of Elvira Bach are colourful pictures of strong women.

Films about paintings on realeyz.tv: Journey to Tunis

Berlin in the summer - the air warmed by the day’s sun and fragrant with the perfume of countless blossoms. And sunsets after 10 pm!  Berlin - laguna on the Spree at Treptower Park.

Films for this mood: Pupa’s Garden. Garden of Eden in the middle of wasteland.

This weekend’s program at HAU encompasses rarely seen short films by John Lurie, Bette Gordon, Vivienne Dick, James Nares, Tessa Hughes Freeland, Eric Mitchell, Beth B. & Scott B., David Wojnarowicz and many others. Co-curator (with Berlin-based Christoph Gurk) Christian Höller, who also initiated the whole No Wave film retrospective (which has previously been shown Continue Reading

On August 19, the restored version of famed British filmmaker Tony Palmer's 1972 Leonard Cohen tour doc Bird on a Wire will have its U.K. premiere at the Green Man Festival in southeastern Wales (with a DVD release to follow in September). Chris Mugan, a London journalist who writes about music for the Independent, took Continue Reading

The American TV host Oprah Winfrey has ended her show for good on May, 25th after 25 years. There’s some hope for German viewers as they can still watch her show on the Sixx channel (every week day at 1.35 PM). On this channel, the show is broadcasted with one year and a half delay Continue Reading

 
Photo: On the set of the music video ‘Gotta Give’ (courtesy of Steps for the Future)
Reading an obituary about Gil Scott-Heron’s untimely death at age 62 on Friday, May 27, greatly saddened me. Scott-Heron’s witty and incisive social commentary had been a great source of inspiration, call to action and solace for almost three decades.He Continue Reading

 
Some personal effects of the so-called Unabomber (Ted Kaczinski) are currently being sold by the US Marshals at an online auction from May,18th until June, 2nd in order to provide compensations for his victims.
Even though Ted Kaczinski is a criminal, I find a bit disturbing that very personal things are being sold like his driving licence and letters Continue Reading

Festival persona non grata von Trier achieved that his film couldn’t/didn’t win the Golden Palm (for which it certainly was a favored candidate), but so that the festival not be accused of aesthetic knee-jerkism, the film (not von Trier as a person) had to win something. And so the Best Actress Palm went to Dunst Continue Reading