The
inaugral presentation of Rising Stars, Falling Stars: Sweet
16mm,Never Been Kissed at silent green Kulturquartier was a late
Spring/Early Summer triumph. I've never seen an audience of such
dazzling intergenerational faces all geared,greased, and ready to
have a grand old fashion hoot of a time.
Our
shorts program was odd but somehow thats what made it click, mixing
Kenneth Anger, Chantal Akerman, Sharon Sandusky, Pasolini and WC
Fields, plus one of my own vintage short subjects from 2001 Frau
Unter Einflus that was filmed on location in Berlin during my sixth
months residency with the first CHEAP kollektiv project CHEAP
Jewelry.
After
8 years at Kino Arsenal its marvelous to have a proper performance
set-up at silent green complete with lights, sound,spacious dressing
room private bath including shower facilities. Lovesexxyline!
The
SRO crowd included Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
reigning majestic over the proceedings along with Jewish Muzlim
Daniel Hendrickson and his hot lover Piero Bellomo, Ulrich Ziemons,
the fine folks from the Harun Farocki Institut, the beautiful young
blondine UdK student David Schoeler and his gorgeous friend Yannick
Spiess, Marcus Ruff, a bevy of ultra attractive UdK Media Art
department tyro artistes, big peniled Tobi Ashraf, prima ballerina
Trixie Schoenherr,Cairo Egypt artist/curator and current Living
Archive artist in residence at silent green Maha Maamoun, Manuel Vicki Baum Schubert of Die Taz Newspaper with his delightful pal Olivier Nowitsky, the wonderful Pedro Marum of Queer Lisbon Film Festival, Kathy Ann Tan who is an adjunct professor at Humboldt Universitaet and Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Tubingen, Nadine Voss
and her top notch silent green crew, Berlinale Panorama's Michi Stuetz, Gweneal Radtke,
Brazilian director Antonio Canto Porto de Moraes, documentary
filmmaker Sebastian Winkels, the sweet lady from L'immagine Ritrovata
Filmrestoration lab in Bologna, Denise Anh-Dao Beyschlag formerly of
Berlinale Shorts, a bunch of other people from various Berlinale
sections including William Faber, Haytham El Wardany the famous
writer,Joerg Heitmann and Tina Ellerkamp,Laurie Anderson film editor
Ruth Schoenegge, Lea Schneidermann, girlfriend Arnita Jaunsubrena and
hot posse,
Gerrit
Woltemath, Elizabeth Taylor's activist grandsons with violet eyes
just like La Liz Quinn and Rhys Tivey,Peter Dundas the creative
director of Roberto Cavalli seeking out Ms. D as a new muse or at the
very least inspiration,London designer Michael van der Ham, actor
Taylor Kitsch, Kornelia Kugler and her rock steady crew, Sophiensaler's Anna Muelter,CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and lovely daughter Salome Gersch, Cannes film festival fav Maren Ade,and pretty boy
tennis shtar Alexander Zverev.
