Biennale des bewegten Bild oder B3 - Thursday

This morning I woke up and went almost directly to the Max Planck institute where my hosts are working. This institute is freshly new and to have an idea of how it looks, think of the design a Scandinavian hotel in Stockholm, but instead of rooms for sleeping you will find labs, working rooms, über cool microscope, nice sofa, good cafeteria, good coffee, a lot of light and space, all what you need to do a good research job and probably any job.

The head full of cells images I left this place. More moving images were waiting for me down town. I took the U8 follow by the S2 (not sure) to join the main train station. There I went to the Kai Middendorff Galerie where I saw a film (it was "Out (Tse)" from artist Roee Rosen). It was question about Israel, sm, politic, exorcism, fetishism, eroticism and more. Type of video installation where you wonder "Am I looking at two women, one with clothes whipping the ass of the other, naked, the arms attached to the ceiling and screaming with an evil voice quotations from the a former Israeli minister? Yes I'm.", checked.

To continue I went again to the Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche located nearby the Willy Brandt place. Watch some films, played video game with four other players on the fulldome and left again.

I crossed the Main and enter the Deutsches Filmmuseum. There I only had 45min to attend the exhibition on Fassbinder. Very nice installations, mainly projections of film parts, shorts ones with explanation. Now I know I'm missing some german movie references (or in French "Maintenant je sais que je dois combler mes lacunes fassbinderienne").

Re-crossing the bridge, official opening of the fulldome in the church and short visit for another opening in the same street of the Basis place. Here as well a lot of videos. I remind to the readers that it is the topic of this Biennale.

Then again leaving and going home by feet. Frankfurt is pretty quiet for and an Halloween evening. I just saw 4 people dressed for the pumpkins event.

Time to sleep well thank you.

A night at the planetarium

September is over and October took over ten days ago. As usual the trees, but not only, some buildings in Berlin as well are getting new colors. For the trees it's easy, we call it Autumn, for the buildings it's the light festival or festival of light. 

Passed 9:00pm you may find a lot of night photographers in the streets of Berlin, all equipped with tripod and waiting on the side as fishermen with their fishing rod waiting for the chosen monument to change appearance. This year I'm following a bit more seriously the program who offers interesting combos: free shows outdoor with light and music and payed performances indoor with music and light.


Last Sunday we attended two shows: one outside the Elisabeth Kirche in Invalidestrasse and a second inside the church building. First show used the front side of the building as projection surface as well as its shape to create nice visuals. Therefore you had the impression that the whole building was changing color and not only simply colored with a laser pointer. Indoor only the back wall served as projection surface, a huge surface, the small baroque ensemble was a delight for ears and the visuals created could have been better. I mean technically it was superb, but the content was not really synchronized with the music.

Tonight it was the opposite, the projection outdoor on the Gross Planetarium roof in Prenzlauer Allee was fine but not exceptional, only a simple slide show and sadly rain. This event took place during the week.  Nice to see this place full of people during the evening and people of bit younger than the an average planetarium visitor.

But really tonight it is in the planetarium that the a full dome show is taking place. Live electronic music and projection on the whole indoor dome surface. The projection surface was ok, not a perfect blending but it did the job as some people may say. The rest was completely hypnotic :-) The visuals - rather simple - were completely matching with the electronic live performance creating a strange atmosphere, truly immersive experience, giving you the feeling to be in the center of the dome, floating in space and no I did not take drugs before.

Arctic Monkeys à l'Admiralpalast

Pour se préparer à la fête du bruit de la musique de demain, j'ai fait un petit tour à l'Admiralpalast pour écouter Arctic Monkeys sur les bons conseils de Kaido.

C'était pas mal, mieux que Belle et Sebastian.

Reste de la semaine derniére

Petite compilation d'une installation alliant musique électronique et projection:

Soiré cardinale

Cardinale car on presque fait tous les points. On a commencé à l'est, continué au nord-ouest puis fini - avant de revenir au point de départ - au sud.

Début de soirée par un petit vernissage au nord-ouest de Berlin, dans un énorme hangar presque vide. En attendant les performances on a un peu enchaîné canons de rouge. Mais va vallait le coup.

From photos blog

et ici une petite vidéo de performance violon et danse:

Ensuite c'est en faisant les couillons que nous nous sommes fait remarquer. Résultat direction Kreuzberg avec un inconnu mathématicien pour une pause manger turque, puis fête erasmus un peu plus loin.

Et enfin vers 3h et des poussières retour au bercail. Une belle soirée.

Voir la Suède

On remonte vers le nord, la Suède cette fois. Et je découvre Norrköping pour la première fois. En gros c'est un mélange de Bergen et Oslo pour les bâtiments, bien sûr beaucoup plus plat. Et la grosse différence (outre l'accent suédois) se situe au niveau des couleurs, en effet le rouge et bleu foncé ont été remplacés par du jaune et bleu légèrement plus clair. Etrange non?

Entre les sessions conférences j'ai réussi à courir un peu, c'est pas aussi montagneux qu'Oslo, mais c'est moins plat que Berlin... J'ai même retrouvé des traces de viking inscrites dans la roche.

From Eurographics in Norrköping

Et c'est pas tout car j'ai même réalisé/monté mon premier film. D'accord la qualité est inexistante, c'est du 2 ou 19 ou autres images par seconde au bon vouloir de mon téléphone, mais c'est déjà sur youtube et c'est ici.