Christoph Dreher
Directing
Biography
German filmmaker and musician. He founded the post-punk band Die Haut, directed several movies and music videos and was also a university professor teaching audiovisual media. During his career as a musician and filmmaker he collaborated with Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Debbie Harry, Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
Known For
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreher.
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
A 1993 portrait of rock singer and poet Nick Cave, a versatile artist who gained importance over the years. Jacobson also wrote the scenario that was built around a long conversation with the singer. From Australia and his work with the Birthday Party to his current city, Berlin, with The Bad Seeds.
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
Die Haut filmed live at Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992. Featuring guest vocalists Alexander Hacke, Anita Lane, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave.
Die Haut - Sweat
This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video clips and films of live gigs as well as interviews with, and reminiscences of, collaborators over the years will be used to document the musical development of one of the most innovative and influential bands of the last two decades. Contemporaries include former mentor Glenn Branca, composer and conductor of guitar symphonies which had a seminal influence on participating musicians such as Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, who went on to become Sonic Youth’s guitarists. The band members‘ numerous creative arts projects and other musical activities – in particular improvised music – will be covered in depth.
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
A German documentary that explores the darker side of the Beach Boys, primarily focusing on Brian Wilson and the Pet Sounds album, with detours to the Manson Family.
The Beach Boys and The Satan
Short documentary about the beginnings of punk in Great Britain. Don Letts, Caroline Coon, Jon Savage and Viv Albertine - all themselves connected to this scene - recount their experiences and memories from that time. In addition, original recordings and short concert excerpts document the feeling, fashion and circumstances of the youth of the time.
Punk rule O.K.
A voyeuristic panorama of a specific moment in the German independent music scene.
Berlin Now
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Superhuman
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It's more than TV!
Dilettantishly cruel scenes from the "scene": A skinhead loves a dance girl and dreams of a petty-bourgeois future. When he is deprived of the wages of a robbery by his landlady, an impoverished princess, he kills her. His girlfriend sinks to being a prostitute and is also killed. It all ends in the prison cell with a dream vision of a white wedding in Berlin's Memorial Church. First film shot on Super-8 and blown up to 16mm by Tabea Blumenschein, who became known as a performer in underground films and as a costume designer.
Zagarbata
A German documentary that explores dub music, sound system culture and its influence
Deep Into Dub
Documentation on a protest campaign against urban displacement, organized by neighbors from Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Rent Eats Soul
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Psychedelic Revolution ’67
Essay film about music and urbanity.