Under the Underground
2019 | 54 min | Documentary
A guided tour through the improvised spaces of Janka Industries, an underground cellar vault and creative microcosm of Vienna’s subculture.
Angela Christlieb
DirectorAngela Christlieb is a German director known for her work on documentaries. She has worked on films such as "Cuba Island of Music" and "Fire and Ice." Christlieb has received acclaim for her cinematography and storytelling, bringing unique perspectives to her subjects. Although specific awards for her work may not be widely documented, her contributions to the world of documentary filmmaking have been recognized by audiences and critics alike.
Films
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
2016 | 83 min | Documentary
The Dadaist artist collective Gelitin is known for its sensational, worldwide art happenings.
Naked Opera
2013 | 81 min | Documentary
The documentary accompanies the living man Marc on his travels around the world to staging his favorite operas – and inspired by it, in search of joie de vivre and love. Marc is talented, intelligent, eloquent and wealthy but has suffered from an incurable illness from childhood. On the tracks of Don Giovanni he is permanently on the lookout for the perfect staging for his life and the perfect production of his favorite opera. Each weekend he escapes his everyday life by traveling the world in search ...
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Berlinized
2012 | 83 min | Documentary
Why do people from around the world gravitate to the German capital? BERLINIZED by Lucian Busse is a tour of 1990s’ Berlin-Mitte, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history. After the Berlin Wall fell, a lively and motley scene of young people used the vacant buildings and apartments in Berlin-Mitte as a stage for parties, music performances and art happenings. Long-term success was not an important goal – people lived their lives from one event ...
Berlin Utopiekadaver
2024 | 92 min | Documentary
A “wave of evictions” is sweeping Berlin. The last left-wing autonomous housing projects are to be dissolved and their residents forced to leave the city. The film shows different generations of a subculture talking about themselves, fighting for their existence, but also dancing and crying together. A taxi driver drives through the city of Berlin and talks about the changes and the boom in the real estate market. He himself is a punk, left-wing, and a well-known figure in the autonomous scene. ...
Nothing Essential Happens in the Absence of Noise
2015 | 23 min | Documentary
Alex und Daniel Buess, Bourbonese Qualk, Darkam, Pure are thebreakcore artists published by this label. Founded in 1994 in London by Christoph Fringeli, Praxis has been active for more than 20 years mixing political engagement with breakcore music and rave parties. Shot mainly in VHS and mixed with animations and degraded film materials, the film is a essay on the origins of breakcore and on the developments of the illegal party scene of the last years. A trip into noise, break-core and bits of ...
Scala Adieu - Von Windeln verweht
2018 | 80 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Douglas Wolfsperger, who grew up in Constance, accompanies the disappearance of one of the last arthouse cinemas on Lake Constance, which had a strong influence on his own career. The "Scala Filmpalast" in Constance was a cinema with an 80-year tradition. In 2017, a branch of the dm drugstore chain moved into the building, although another drug store was already located directly opposite. Eva Mattes, known from Tatort, Woyzeck, Kopfstand, and UNTER SCHNEE, tells Douglas Wolfsperger about ...
Parov Stelar - Backstage 2022
2021 | 58 min | Documentary
This documentary takes a look at this exceptional artist, his work in the studio and on his life on the road. The camera follows Stefan throughout the genesis of the Voodoo Sonic Trilogy and shows the effects that Covid-19 pandemic has had on the musicians. Stelar, who has worked with many greats of the music world including Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey and Marvin Gaye, also reveals personal details, such as how he has discovered painting as a way to give balance to his life.
Betongold
2013 | 52 min | Documentary
They try to force her out of her apartment in Berlin's gentrified Mitte district. BETONGOLD is a first-person account of the rampant gentrification that affects many throughout Berlin and in big cities all over the world. Whatever Rothe couldn't capture on film for legal reasons, she depicts in ingenious animated sequences. Katrin Rothe has been living in Berlin-Mitte for years. One day, she and her neighbors are notified that their apartment building has been sold to an investor specialized in ...
Berlin Excelsior
2018 | 87 min | Documentary
The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years. Things are expected to improve and everyone helps .With his "invisible make-up", 49-year-old Michael wants to build on earlier successes as an escort boy. Claudia's time as a dancer is over, but new photos are to pave her way back onto the stage. Norman wants to help other people find happiness with his start-up "ChangeU", and himself to a chic ...
Berlin: Hasenheide
2010 | 72 min | Documentary
Although the Hasenheide, a park in Berlin's district Neukölln, has been sensationalized by the German media as a mecca for drug dealers and as a discount drug store, Director Nana Rebhan (WELCOME GOODBYE) shows local people at home in the park's many secret and not-so-secret places. A documentary about BERLIN: HASENHEIDE in all its funky glory. "The film BERLIN: HASENHEIDE, with its atmosphere of pleasant cheerfulness, could have been a little longer - but maybe that shows just how good it the film ...
Zwischennutzung
2022 | 95 min | Documentary
Nestled in a niche between the city's motorway and industrial sites lies a former meat factory, now home to a vibrant community of entrepreneurs and creatives. From the growl-metal band's rehearsal room to the conceptual artist's studio, the film uncovers a patchwork of interests and perspectives, as diverse as the city itself. Kowalski's documentary offers a refreshing take on urban development, challenging the notion of gentrification by celebrating the beauty of impermanence. With a laid-back ...
You Are Everything
2016 | 98 min | Music, Dance, Theater
Journalist Georg and his girlfriend Vera meet DJ and bon vivant Dave and join his festival tour across Europe. At some point, Vera has to choose one of the two. At an electronic music festival, Berlin-based journalist Georg and his girlfriend Vera meet Dave Zuma, a DJ who loves to enjoy life to the fullest. As soon as the unusual trio enters Dave's old hippie campervan the journey of their lifetime begins. Their bumpy ride takes them from one festival to the next, across the Balkan states heading ...