dandy (1988) dir. peter sempel on archive.org and on youtube
"A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire’s satire 'Candide'." synopsis via tmdb
Kazuo Ohno (大野 一雄 Ōno Kazuo, October 27, 1906 – June 1, 2010) was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh.
He also appeared in several films by German director Peter Sempel, most notably in the music film Dandy (1988) alongside Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Lene Lovich, among others.
Ohno once said of his work: "The best thing someone can say to me is that while watching my performance they began to cry. It is not important to understand what I am doing; perhaps it is better if they don't understand, but just respond to the dance."
More spliters of light and shadow, colour and monochrome, scream and silence are set to crystallize out of the chaos of the cosmos, all this (potentially) before your very eyes. This can only mean Directors Lounge is shaking the sparks out of its treasure box and letting them fall to earth where you can position yourself to see them descend and sparkle. Chosen event and venues for this meteor shower: the 3rd Mitte Media Festival, spread between two earthly recepracles going by the names Fata Morgana Gallery and Z-inema in the Z-Bar.
Making an appearance on Earth, shortly after having left it, will be legendary off-the-waller Jonas Mekas, cruising out of another dimension into two dimensions on the big sceen in Peter Sempel‘s Jonas in the Jungle, one of three features Sempel felt impelled to make in his attempt to capture the enigmatic creative force in a format that earthlings can observe. Mekas may have departed after 96 years of sharing our earthbound corridors, but his stamp on the world of avant-garde film art is showing no signs of fading. Sempel, not least a worthy name in his right through his work with luminaries Cave und Bargeld, Hollywood-New Yorkers Scorsese and Hoffmann, stage screamers Hagen and Lemmy, Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno of Japan and conceptual artist Dieter Meier of Yello (and more), will make the trip to be on hand for further illumination of his illumination.
In addition, there will be chips and chunks of the kind of cinematic strangeness that few others besides DL can come up with, including works by Allan Brown, Anton Corbijn, Roger Deutsch, Olivier Dekegel, Masha Godovannaya, Guy Maddin and many others. Your part in the proceedings: be there.
Mitte Media Festival | Directors Lounge Presents:
Radically Subjective
curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Friday, April 19th, 9.15-11.15 pm
Fata Morgana Galerie – Front Room
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Selected Gems from the DL Archives
– Bizarre, Hypnotic, Wonderful –
Saturday, April 20th, 7-9 pm
Z-Bar Zinema, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin
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Peter Sempel – “Jonas in the Jungle”, 2013, 94 min
In attendance of Peter Sempel (Hamburg)
Saturday, April 20th, 9-11 pm | seats are limited!
Z-Bar Zinema, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin
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The complete Mitte Media Festival Schedule: www.mittemediafestival.com