SPRING FESTIVAL

first of all HELLO to all platoonies.

i'm using my first blog entry for a little promotion dedicated to my homeland austria: klein aber fein :)

so i recommend you the SPRING FESTIVAL – austria’s festival for electronic art & music, which takes place every year from 16 – 20 May in graz.












this year, we are already at SPRING SEVEN. you will find a lot of international electronic top-acts, superstar-djs and visual artists, but also newcomer-djs.















moreover you can attend lounge-talks with famous djs and also dj- and vj-workshops (in cooporation with fachhochschule joanneum, graz), where the participants create visuals for the last evening.















5 days, 4 nights, a lot of impressive locations/clubs (it’s not an open-air-festival) and more than 250 international and national djs, live-acts and visual artists showing that this is one of the most important electronic-events in europe.

videos, photos, line-up (online March 17)

from march 1-17 you can buy limited special-price festival tickets for 40€ (after it costs 60€).

so long ...

february: 5th pecha kucha night in berlin

this one is going out to you. so read carefully. pecha kucha is back on the floor. this time the pecha kucha location is held at the ballhaus ost in the pappelallee 15, prenzlauer berg, and of course presented by pecha kucha berlin, pecha kucha or 20/20: fast, furious, fun and information. the start is supposed to be on 8:20 p.m., so do not forget to be in time. doors will open on 7:30 p.m. the amount for the entry is like 4€ each.

guests for the 5th pecha kucha night are:

Coco Kühn (about the art institute on Schlossplatz, White Cube Berlin)

Takahiro Suzuki (about his art)

Yoshiaki Kaihatsu (also about his art)

Vlado Velkov (about an art portal on the internet, artnews.info)

Miriam Mlecek und Katie Hepworth (about Transitlounge)

Friedrich Lichtenstein (about Elevatorgirl)

Jörg Hejkal (presents his work as a photographer)

Volker Gerling (about his travels with a flip book)

Siamac Fazli& Yakob Badower (Fraunhofer Institut, about a Brain to Computer Interface)

Simon Ferdinando (artist, speaks about Nana Mouskouris'Mouskouri International')

if you want to be a presenter at one of the next Pecha kucha nights in berlin, please send an email with the subject "pechakuchanight presenters" to curators@pechakucha.de

for more information about previous pecha kucha events: (1 2 3 4)

NEW OPENING

tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. is the opening of the supermarkt2.0 super arts & services at the wrangelstr.20 corner to puecklerstr. the area is of course known as x-berg. for all who do not know the location that good, in former times it used to be the plus-market. the new thing about this spot is the fact that there are 12 offices and artists from now on, who want to present and offer their new concept to you. the opening night will be a thrilling event. in fact there is a huge music-line-up starting with elvis trashley and from 10 p.m. with 3 more live acts of the second generation, including

Trillian (Halle) postrock
Endlich Frei (Weimar, Berlin) surfdisco
Bit Tuner (Berlin, Schweiz) noise

afterwards
Magical History D-Tour
DJ Merzen

Special:
VIDEO SUSHI by Ron Rocco (New York)

perhaps this place is an interesting new spot with a nice and pleasureful opener.


supermarkt2.0 super arts & services is supported by:
AchtungSelbstvermarktung
Airbrush Berlin
Anna Mandoki Grafikdesign
Bernadette Salvage Fine Arts
complizen Planungsbüro
Daten Strom
Jooze Webmedia & Education
Matthias Froböse, Dipl. Des.
Neulant / van Exel
NoHotel
pog.design
Punksports
rock'n'roll architecture (under construction)
Sportification
Tore Dobberstein

KARNEVAL

we have a crazy man here in platoon . no, he doesn´t come from köln. but he likes the tipical german carnival. as you can see.....in fact during this time he does everything you can imagine so that we always have fun here in our container: with helau alaaf a.s.o.

FOUNDED

last weekend I visited in leipzig the exibitions of art/media and photo-students of the academy.
and there I found the ideal bike for all city slickers.....

DOLLY.B

SWEET! 2:nd date with DOLLY.B

....meshing up urban media culture in occasion of the opening of the Independent Film Lounge, the new networking facility for independent moviemakers here in berlin/mitte....

Brunnen Str. 154
FEB.8
23h. open end


:LIVE: NAMOSH + Music-Video World Premiere "Dear Diary" Director: Kim Jagua

:JUSTINE ELECTRA (DJ+MC)

:MOUNT SIMS (gigolo rec. LA/BERLIN)

:LIVE PERFORMANCE: ROXANNE (heartcore DETROIT/BERLIN)

:CHRISTIAN F. (BERLIN)

:MOMO (Desire)

:CHARLIE LE MINDU (Paris) LIVECUTS!

:Exhibition LiveAct: SONI-RIOT vs. One Stupid Futurist


GUESTLIST (4half price) per email or sms WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DOLLYBERLIN

remember the 1st DOLLY.B???

Platoon Cultural-Development

COMMENT

going underground

today, when I got the tube to PLATOON I had a very interesting, amazing and fast drive. I was able to see in the metro 3 short films from the festival GU 6

6th International Short Film Festival in the Berlin Subway:

31. January - 06. February 2007
'Going Underground', from 31st of January to 8th of February 2007 Berliner Fenster in co-operation with interfilm Berlin will run the sixth International Short Film Festival for 'Ultra Shorts' in Berlin's underground trains. Those privileged to travel the Berlin Underground will find once again that their usual glassy-eyed 'underground-stare' will be awakened and entertained by a variety of short delights.

The three winning film makers will be rewarded with prizes of
1. Prize 3,000 EUR
2. Prize 2,000 EUR
3. Prize 1,000 EUR

'Ultra Shorts', are films of up to 90 seconds in length, the most challenging of short film formats, especially considering that the underground screens require all films to be silent. Apart from that, provocative shock effects using sex and violence had to be refrained from, owing to the different age groups amongst public transport travellers.

Four films were be shown daily and passengers were invited to be the jury. The films will be seen by 1,5 million people every day and one can vote them directly over the phone, or via the internet:
uwe berger
Tel: +49 30 32 53 66 12

E-mail: uwe.berger@projectorat.de




vom 31.Januar – 6. Februar 2007 in der Berliner U-Bahn.

Das BERLINER FENSTER zeigt Kino im Untergrund

1. Das Festival Going Underground 6

Das Berliner Fenster und interfilm berlin präsentieren vom 31. Januar bis zum 6. Februar 2007 das weltweit einzigartige Kurzfilmfestival Going Underground im Fahrgastfernsehen der Berliner U-Bahn. In Zusammenarbeit mit interfilm berlin fand bis 15.12.2006 eine internationale Ausschreibung für Going Underground 6 statt, bei der Filmemacher aufgerufen waren, ihre Werke einzureichen.

Für die Filmemacher ist Going Underground eine große Herausforderung, denn alle Wettbewerbsfilme müssen folgende Voraussetzungen erfüllen: Aufgrund der besonderen Vorführsituation im Berliner Fenster muss der Film ohne Ton funktionieren, Sex und Gewalt sind tabu und die maximale Filmlänge beträgt 90 Sekunden.

An der Ausschreibung haben sich Filmemacher aus aller Welt beteiligt: so wurden 154 Beiträge aus Deutschland, 45 aus Neuseeland, 33 aus Schweden, 31 aus den USA, eingereicht, aber auch welche aus Südamerika, Taiwan, Palästina. Bemerkenswert ist, dass sich das Verhältnis von Animations- und Realfilmen umgekehrt hat und im Gegensatz zu den bisherigen Festivals in diesem Jahr 75 % der eingereichten Beiträge Realfilme waren. Zudem wurde der überwiegende Teil der Filme speziell für das Festival produziert, was auf die Etablierung von Going Underground schließen lässt. Die Filmemacherin Sükriye Dönmez, die auch in diesem Jahr für den Wettbewerb nominiert wurde, hat bereits im Jahr 2005 den ersten Platz belegt. Renommierte Namen wie Veit Helmer sind auch dieses Mal dabei.