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
Marietta Kesting, Aljoscha Weskott: Sunny Land
A film shoot in South Africa. Sun City revisited at swimming pools and edutainment centers. An essay film that provocatively responds to the paintings of Edward Hopper and early Warhol films through its cementing of boredom as a state of being.
Craig Baldwin: Mock up on Mu
Ronald Lippok (musician who plays Continue Reading
Pasadena Projekt is not just Mario Mentrup moonlighting musically. The noise folk - for lack of a better term - trio (the other members are theater sound designer and musician Nikolaus Woernle, and, not pictured, musician-artist-performer Ole Wulfers) contributed to the soundtracks to Mentrup’s films he co-directed with Volker Sattel ( STADT DES LICHTS-CITY OF Continue Reading
Last December the independent filmmaker, actor and musician Mario Mentrup (co-director of STADT DES LICHTS_ CITY OF LIGHT, DER ADLER IST FORT - THE EAGLE IS GONE and ICH BEGEHRE - I DO ADORE, all on realeyz.tv) invited us to his apartment. We reviewed not just his last film creations but traveled through the imagination Continue Reading