Watch a short film about Berlin’s party scene in the ’90s and ’00s. Directed by filmmaker and DJ Leonie Gerner (AKA Moogli), Beyond Sound charts the evolution of the city’s world-famous scene through the story of two veteran DJs: Heimlich KnĂŒller and Madmotormiquel.
A new documentary centers around the story of Berlin’s iconic and sex-positive club KitKatClub. A sign at the club’s garden inspired the film’s title, KitKatClub â Das Leben ist ein Zirkus (“KitKatClub â Life Is A Circus”). The film is set to release in 2023.
Opened in 1994, KitKatClub is infamous for its unusual dress code, high-profile Techno DJs, and sex-positive rules. Club goers may have sex openly in the venue. The club’s name is inspired by a burlesque club featured in the American musical Cabaret called Kit Kat Club.
“The film started for me as a tribute to the legendary club, but [it] is increasingly becoming a film about the unique people behind it, above all of course [the owner] Kirsten [KrĂŒger], who I have come to know and appreciate over the years as the woman who holds everything together.”
Philipp Fussenegger, the director of the documentary and regular visitor of KitKatClub, seeks to emphasize the crowd and their stories
Featured image courtesy of Juergen Henkelmann Photography/Alamy
A film about some of Berlin’s notorious bouncers is coming out soon.
The movie, depicting real-life bouncers of Berlin’s nightlife, will tell the story of three famed doormen of Germany’s capital city, including the most recognized face and name of them all: Sven Marquardt of Berghain.
The other two bouncers starring in the film titled Berlin Bouncers include Smiley Baldwin, another employee of Berghain, and Frank KĂŒnster who worked at Delicious Doughnuts and King Size.
The film is due to be screened on February 10th, 11th and 16th at the Berlinale, documenting each of the doorman’s career path into nightlife dating back to the ’80s and passing through the years that have taken us to present day.
A wider release of the film is expected for April of 2019.
Berghain’s notorious strict door police has become the source of too many memes to mention, board games, virtual interactive games and plenty of article features.
Kappa FuturFestival is Italyâs biggest and best house and techno festival, and a new film by DJsounds shows just why. In it, the global video web channel DJsounds.comâwhich is now 10 years oldâreally captures how the huge event has evolved and grown over the years.
Starting over a decade ago, DJsounds.com is a global video web channel, producing feature interviews and event footage from around the globe, dedicated to the electronic music industry. Â Established when online video of club culture was in its infancy, DJsounds has matured over 1,200 clips celebrating artists, parties and festivals across the globe. Now in 2017 – an age where every festival, club and artist create their own videos – rather than compete, we are also using our unique, impartial position to explore, investigate and uncover intriguing and fascinating facets of electronic music culture via longer length documentaries.
The film touches on the origins of the festival, the landmark performances and features interviews with the likes of Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim, Kölsch and Joseph Capriati. Festival director Maurizio Vitali also appears throughout and walks us through the huge industrial hangar that is the main arena for the festival, which was once an iron forgery
âThereâs a freedom, it feels open here, you arenât caged in anywhere,â says Carl Cox in the film, summing up the attitude of the crowd. “Itâs been a lifestyle for many years, this music, the coming together of people from all over the country. But the locals wanted something with more substance, they wanted to look up to their heroes.â
Joseph Capriati adds, “Italians they give you their all, they are the most loyal supporters in the world.”
The film is a history lesson that offers some great scenes from this yearâs event and taps into the Italian passion for house and techno, offering a great insight at just how special this festival is and what makes it so unique.
Watch it below:
That’s right, a movie about the iconic New York City venue is currently in production.
Directed by Jonathan Ullman, the film will explore the history of Paradise Garage while focusing on the complicated relationship between the venue owner Michael Brody and club resident Larry Levan. Opened for ten years between 1977 and 1987, Paradise Garage is directly responsible for the foundations of dance music and its culture, allowing the early pioneers that graced its decks to innovate and push the boundaries of disco and house.
Appropriately titled Paradise Garage, the film will highlight the venue’s role as a sanctuary for its members, and especially so those of the LGBT community.
âThroughout his life Larry travelled a road that no one had taken before,â says director Jonathan Ullman âNever afraid to take chances, it was his fearlessness as a DJ and remixer that has endeared him to generations of fans around the world, including myself.” Â Ullman has done other work related to Paradise Garage before, namely a mini-documentary released in 2014 which you can watch below.
British actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith will portray Paradise Garage’s Larry Levan.
H/T: Mixmag
