D/B Recommended: CTM.12 Festival @ Different Venues in Berlin | from Monday, 30.01.2012 to Sunday, 05.01.2012
With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art. The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January [...]
D/B Presents: Network Awesome Birthday Party w/ Chuckamuck @ Sophiensaele Berlin | Friday, 20.01.2012
Ever want to watch Alice Cooper host The Muppet Show or catch up on old episodes of HBO series Tales From the Crypt, but didn’t know where to find them? Maybe you just want to zone out for a few hours watching nostalgic old black-and-white TV shows like The Twilight Zone or documentaries on big-wave [...]
D/B Presents: Land of the Songhai – Screening @ Monarch Berlin | Monday, 21.11.2011
We are happy to present: LAND OF THE SONGHAI, a film By Hisham Mayet (45 minutes, 2011). The screening is part of the ongoing Folk music series “When the Devil is Gone I Mostly Feel Lonely”. Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet’s latest film explores the music and landscape of Songhai country in Western Niger.
D/B Presents: Asian Film Festival Berlin @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin | Wednesday, 26.10. – Sunday, 30.10. 2011
Digital In Berlin is pleased to present the Asian Film Festival Berlin (AFFB), which takes place from October 26–30, and will present 30 contemporary Asian feature, documentary, and short films that take “Imagine(d) Kinships” and “Food” as their themes. The Festival will show new works from Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and the U.S. [...]
D/B Video Feature: Brokendate by Com Truise | Directed by Will Joines
Music as evocative as the stuff made by Com Truise – master of the transporting synth odyssey – necessitates videos that are nothing short of cinematic. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Hence the fully blown-out treatment for “Brokendate,” which rolls everything from eighties cop noir to Blade Runner retro-futurism to slo-mo Hype Williams nods [...]
D/B Recommended: WDR Orchestra “Das Weib des Pharao” LIVE @ Neues Museum Berlin | Saturday, 17.09.2011
This saturday cineasts will be able to enjoy Ernst Lubitsch’s „Das Weib des Pharao“, originally colored. The world premiere of a restored version, made of the rolls of film rediscovered recently! While famous Emil Jannings is playing the Pharao (!), the WDR Rundfunkorchester, directed by Frank Strobel, will be accompanying the silent movie live – [...]
D/B Recommended: Apparat Organ Quartet @ VolksbĂĽhne Berlin | Sunday, 18.09.2011
The Apparat Organ Quartet is an Icelandic band founded in 1999 by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hörður Bragason, Músikvatur and Úlfur Eldjárn. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The sounds heard on the albums of AOQ come from a vast collection of antique synthesizers, Farfisas, Hammonds, home-organs, cheap portable keyboards and all sorts of malfunctioning machinery.
D/B Movie Feature: Apollo 18 by Gonzalo LĂłpez-Gallego
Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts [...]
D/B Movie Feature: Lovely Molly by Eduardo Sánchez | Score by Tortoise
Our favourite post-rock Band Tortoise have recorded the score for Lovely Molly, an upcoming movie directed by Eduardo Sánchez. Eduardo Sánchez’s The Blair Witch Project (co-directed with Daniel Myrick) broke new ground in horror, and its influence is still prevalent today.
D/B Movie Feature: Source Code by Duncan Jones
Already one of our favourite Movies in 2011. Source Code is a 2011 American science fiction-techno-thriller film directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) and written by Ben Ripley. When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber [...]
D/B Movie Feature: Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Having released five gold and platinum selling albums within eight years, A Tribe Called Quest has been [...]
D/B Recommended: Shorts Attack – Helden der Arbeit @ Babylon Kino Berlin | Wednesday, 11.05.2011
What is life without work, or work without heroes?! Shorts Attack in May presents 8 exceptional short films dedicated to unusual, anarchic and everyday aspects of working life. Between welfare benefits, the global economy, and conveyer belts – success, it seems, is all just a question of strategy. Cheer on office hamsters, careerists, megalomaniacs and [...]
D/B Movie Feature: Un prophète (Ein Prophet) by Jacques Audiard
A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at “creating icons, images for people who don’t have images in movies, like the Arabs in France,” though he also had stated that the film “has nothing to do with his vision of society,” and is a [...]
D/B Movie Feature: Alamar by Pedro González-Rubio
The old man and the sea. The young man and his son. Mexican director Pedro González-Rubio’s film is about both of these relationships, but it is also about the harmony that exists between those involved: between people and nature, and father and son. Jorge has only a few weeks with his five-year-old son Natan before [...]
D/B Recommended: Symphony X by Ari Benjamin Meyers performed by Redux Orchestra @ HAU2 | Saturday, 02.04.2011
Born in New York and now firmly based in Berlin the composer ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS shifts flexibly between the contexts of cultural production. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He works together with leading representatives of the arts scene like Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster or Anri Sala, and also collaborates with diverse representatives of the music world [...]
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