Directors Lounge presents:a summer evening with ...
a series of special screenings every thursday
in cooperation with zapplive and Z Bar
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june 15th 9pm THE PSYCHOACOUSTIC GEOGRAPHERS at Z Bar
Emotional exiles from the Land of Opportunity, experimental filmmakers Ben Russell and Jonathan Schwartz come to Europe on the first leg of their infinite world tour equipped with 16mm films, vocal distortion effects and optical sound tracks, these kindred spirits engage in a kino-cartography of the audiovisual contract. Through a combination of psychedelic cinema, mash-up animations, ethnographic mask ceremonies, and pinhole lenses these two intrepid explorers map out a new world of image and sound where vision travels in waveforms and sound flickers like explosions in the night.
Ben Russell will be available for Q&A after the screening.

Daumë (7:00, 16mm, 2000)*

SunbeamHunter (3:00, 16mm,2006)**

"One of the strangest films I have ever seen, it´s characters come and go as if they are "primitives" posing for the camera, either obeying or fighting an ethnographers controlling eye." Fred Camper

"For the prevention of violence, check the manual, it might die in the seventies, or I was wondering if sincerity could battle irony"

Full program:
Black and White Trypps Number One (7:00,16mm, silent, 2005)*
The Red and Blue Gods (8:00, 16mm, livesound, 2005)*
Pre-Hibernation News (6:00, 16mm, 2005)**
SunbeamHunter (3:00, 16mm, 2006)**
Daumë (7:00, 16mm, 2000)*
Den of Tigers(19:00, 16mm, 2002)**
Terra Incognita (10:00, 16mm, 2002)*
For Them Ending (3:00, 16mm, 2005)**
Black and White Trypps Number Two(9:30, 16mm, silent, 2006)*

(*by Ben Russell, **by Jonathan Schwartz)

detailed description of all movies here

related links:Magic Lantern Cinema and The Dime Show

Directors Lounge 2006 is made possible in part by Cafe Dix in der Berlinischen Galerie

Special screenings in collaboration with AV-ARRKI microcinema mochafilm club NoMasala

our herores: placebo FX, Fragments, Berliner Licht & Silber, Cinema Desaster, SIEBENGRUENDE,
monitoranimation.de, Kunstsalon Wilde, Gans, Joppel-Bürkle IT, IF Museum/Inner Spaces, Fanhall Studio

Directors Lounge 2006
is the brainchild of Designhof e.V., A&O-gallery and the Kunstfoerderverein Treptow e.V