John Moods is the solo project of Jonathan Jarzyna from the experimental Berlin pop band Fenster. He released his first album The Essential John Moods, which he recorded on his cell phone while travelling, early in 2018 on the Mansions… Continue Reading
Tschick (Goodbye Berlin in the english version) is a German 2016 comedy-drama film directed by Fatih Akin, based on Wolfgang Herrndorf’s bestselling 2010 novel Tschick (released as Why We Took the Car in English countries). The film depicts two teenage outsiders from Berlin who go on an eccentric roadtrip… Continue Reading
Taking us from day through night, the beautiful 4k short film shows us bustling streets, metro systems chugging through the city as well as the vast amounts of park space available in Berlin. It was made by Efim Graboy and… Continue Reading
Following his critically acclaimed 2015 debut Another Half Life, Tobias Siebert now returns with a second solo full-length called Breaking With Habits in early 2018. Deep in the heart of what appears to be Berlin’s unstoppable gentrification process, treasures of sub-culture are still there,… Continue Reading
Berlin Syndrome is a 2017 Australian psychological thriller film directed by Cate Shortland, and written by Shaun Grant, based upon the novel of the same name by Melanie Joosten. It stars Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt. In the plot, Australian photographer, Clare, meets Andi while holidaying in Berlin.… Continue Reading
Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht (If I Think of Germany at Night in the english version) is Romuald Karmakar’s fourth documentary film about techno music and related musical styles. Much more than a portrait of DJs, musicians and techno… Continue Reading
Strassenkaiser is a a road movie through the streets of Berlin, from backyards, parks and bars up to a tower. In an intoxicated Berlin by the summer carnival, there is Noah, a 12 year old boy, non-local, supposed to meet… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, this is a general glimpse of the books and reading trends of the berliners in the public transport that I have observed: To kill a mockingbird (Wer die Nachtigall stört in german)… Continue Reading
Tod den Hippies!! Es lebe der Punk (Death to the hippies !! Long live the Punk) is a comedy drama placed in 1980, in which 19 year old Robert, fed up with hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for… Continue Reading
It has endless edges, tints and singularities. Berlin is a power city. You can feel it there. It’s positive and razor sharp simultaneously. Berlin can be strong and complex for its visitors. In the words of the director Alex Soloviev: “I… Continue Reading
The music of Berlin duo Velvet condom is described as a fastidiously gesticulating grind of snapping synthesiser presets, gloomy guitars, droll role-playing, and the sort of casually arch desperation you might expect from twenty-somethings weaned on a steady diet of Kraftwerk,… Continue Reading
Er ist wieder da (Look Who’s Back in the english version) is a best selling German satirical novel about Adolf Hitler by Timur Vermes, published in 2012 by Eichborn Verlag. The novel was adapted into a German movie of the same name, which was released in 2015. In 2011,… Continue Reading
Sizarr is a German electronic, post-punk band from Landau, Germany, founded in 2009. In April 2010 Sizarr was the supporting act for These New Puritans in Heidelberg, Germany. This was followed by a number of performances at important German music festivals such as Dockville, On3 Festival and Melt! festival in Summer 2010. They… Continue Reading
Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin in the english version) is a 2005 German tragicomic film directed by Andreas Dresen, which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse,… Continue Reading
Hypnotic footage of Berlin from Timon de Graaf Boele with Apparat music as a soundtrack.
Ummah under Freunden (Ummah among friends in the english version) is a 2013 Comedy-Drama film. After killing two skinheads in a failed operation against NeoNazis, young undercover intelligence agent Daniel finds a hiding place and new friends in Berlins Turkish-Arab community.… Continue Reading
Susi Sie is a Berlin-based artist whose work moves between the fields of art and science. She is on a mission to explore the physical and mathematical nature of unusual forms, substances and materials to show the hidden beauty and magic of our… Continue Reading
Lola rennt (Run Lola run in the english version) is a 1998 German thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Franka Potente as Lola and Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni. The story follows a woman who needs to obtain 100,000 Deutsche Mark in twenty minutes to save her… Continue Reading
Victoria is a 2015 German drama film directed by Sebastian Schipper, starring Laia Costa and Frederick Lau. The film is shot in one single long take by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen from about 4:30 to 7:00 in the Kreuzberg and Mitte neighbourhoods. Victoria, a runaway party girl, is asked by three friendly men to join them… Continue Reading
From Kronos Media comes a pretty astounding montage of video showing Berlin in July 1945, just two months after the Nazis lost The Battle of Berlin and Hitler committed suicide, and a month after the allies signed the Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany and… Continue Reading
Music, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s. The walled-in city became the creative melting pot for sub- and pop-culture. Before the iron curtain fell, everything and anything seemed possible. B-Movie is a fast-paced collage of mostly… Continue Reading
Possession is a 1981 French-German horror film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. The plot obliquely follows the relationship between an international spy and his wife, who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking him… Continue Reading
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is a Danish pop band consisting of vocalist Mette Lindberg and songwriter/producer Lars Iversen, formed in 2007. Major video was shot at Funkhaus studios, which are the former East- Berlin Radio broadcasting and Studio facilities. When performing live… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the fifth five-book instalment: The Glass… Continue Reading
A compilation of random classic cars that I’ve seen over the last months in Berlin.
Oh Boy (A coffee in Berlin in the english version) is a 2012 German comedy film directed by Jan-Ole Gerster. It is the director’s debut film in black and white, and thesis project for the German Film and Television Academy in… Continue Reading
Schwarzfahrer (Black Rider in english) is a 1993 German 12-minute Short film directed by Pepe Danquart. It won an Academy Award in 1994 for Best Short Subject. The Short film is about an incident of colour related racism on a tram… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the fourth four-book instalment: Hour of… Continue Reading
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Christiane F in the english version) is a 1981 German film directed by Ulrich Edel that portrays the drug scene in West Berlin in the 1970s, based on the non-fiction book of the same name… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the third five-book instalment: Fahr zu… Continue Reading
A compilation of some of my favourite graffiti characters that I found on the streets of Berlin, Prague, Florence, Venice, Düsseldorf and Cologne. Some are very minimalistic and even childish and others are very clever and elaborated. More to come… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the second five-book instalment:
Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue or Sun Alley) is a 1999 comedy film about life in East Berlin the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann and it was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenalle (At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee).… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the first 5-book instalment:
It was a sunny day so I decided to take a walk around Friedrichsain and take some street art pictures. There are lot of streets and places around that area to discover and this is just a taste of a… Continue Reading
Michael Kiwanuka – Tell me a tale from Tom Henze on Vimeo.