DIGITAL DOMPTEUR

DIGITAL DOMPTEUR

Und Datenanalyst bei fraunhofer

If you are Dieter Kosslick a man from a good Germany family you have no choice but to become the director of an international film festival for 18 years. Next year the Berlinale will have a new leader from the Locarno Festival, and a new starting date Feb 20th which is my birthdate. Lets hope that every year the festival will get closer to returning to its summer roots.

The Vaginal Davis doll was in a flirtatious mood at the opening of Forum Expanded AntiKino The Siren’s Echo Chamber at the new silent green kultur quartier’s majestic Betonhalle. Ms. Davis didn’t know that the handsome man who was chatting her up was Benjamin Domenech the producer and co-founder of indie production company Rei Cine who recently partnered with Pedro and Agustin Almodovar’s El Deseo production house as well as Canana founded by Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal. Mr. Domenech thought Ms. Davis was someone else but not before introducing her to his two young companions the easy on the eye French actors Francois Civil and Guillaume Gouix. The installation that the malenfucken hemen were giddy about was Ala Younis’ Drachmas. This year the exhibit will be open until March 9th. Multiple viewings highly encouraged.

Before Berlinale Ms. D along with the great scholar Julianne Rebentisch traveled beyond the valley of the iron curtain to Marzahn’s Orwo Haus to see the return of the band Girls, who haven’t performed since 1971. It was an SRO crowd that included some members of Gob Squad, prima ballerina Trixie Schonherr, British visual artist “Re” Phil Collins, Constantine Berger and a slew of younger degenerates thriving to the multi media musical hodgepodge that is the brilliant Girls cosmos. Girls are resplendid! They are the now sound blending of The Shaggs, Captain Beefheart, Wanda Jackson, Sparks and Cardi B. Lets hope they don’t wait another 45 plus years to come out of hiding.

Say it isn’t so. Ruth Fischer the art band of the CHEAP kollektiv are returning to the stage after a hiatus of over 10 years. CHEAP Palast is the name of the performance that will take place at the Berliner Festspiele March 9th at 10:30pm. Besides olde members of Ruth Fischer Susanne Sachsse, Marcuse Siegelstein, kJohnny Blue and Vaginal Davis this new incarnation will feature Maurice de Martin, Akira Knightly, Senor Senturk, Martin Siemens and Richard Gabriel and will take in the form of Expanded Concert Cinema Installation piece, so Mark your calenderias.

This year at the Berlinale Lady Ms. Davis made a concerted effort to be more social and made an appearance at several shindigs including The Norweigan,Polish Film Soirees, the official Premier party at Quasimodo of the Greek Cinema /Greek Film Center Celebration for Syllas Tzoumerkas’ The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea, A Tale of Three Sisters and When Tomatoes Met Wagner.

The Diva also beelined to the Saltzgeber Reception hosted by hunky Christian Weber of Sissy Magazine where she got down and funky with Wilhelm Hein, pretty Michelle Mangan with The Fringe Festivals PR unit and Outsider Liverpool Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and the great Berlin lesben icon Mahide Lein and everyones fav Canadian Peaches.

This year Ms. D stuck to seeing Forum and Forum Expanded Films with the only exceptions being the Panorama documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael by Rob Carver. What She Said is a pretty straight forward talking head doc with lots of great  footage of the famous New
Yorker Magazine film critic.

Stay tuned to this very blogina for the remainder of what Vaginal Davis saw during the ten days of the Berlinale Film Festival.