Peter Sempel

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.

Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.

A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire's satire "Candide".

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical career, featuring past live perfomances by himself and cover versions of his songs by contemporary artists.

Musician and artist Nina Hagen was perhaps the most notable figure to come out of the German punk scene, and this documentary offers a look at her life, her work and her friends and collaborators. Along with interview footage with Hagen and her family, director Peter Sempel visits Lemmy from Motorhead, director Wim Wenders, Dee Dee Ramone and George S. Clinton as they discuss their flamboyantly creative friend.

A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.

A short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler Peter Sempel.

Short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler, Peter Sempel.

A Documentary about flamenco.

An experimental documentary profiling 42 women artists across generations and disciplines as they reveal their distinct creative worlds.

A narrative presented non-chronologically of Jonas Mekas's time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps from 1944 to 1949, in which he quotes his diaries, as well as the German wartime writer Wolfgang Borchert.

An essayistic film journey with Jonas Mekas, the living legend of avant-garde cinema—who, at 90 years old, still dances and sings, wiry and cheerful.

Inspired by Meese, who proclaims the dictatorship of art to the point of self-degradation, the film meanders through many different worlds and types of music to create a challenging experience of color and noise that lingers for days.

This experimental music film, ranging from punk to classical music and loosely based on E. A. Poe, depicts a man on a quest. What is fascinating about it is that you may know that what you are looking for does not exist, but you continue searching anyway. Why?