Cats are looking at you!

(seen in a window in Berlin-Wedding)
unterwegs in Sachen Film >>> <<< on the road making films!
Cats are looking at you!

(seen in a window in Berlin-Wedding)
It felt like the first day of spring, suddenly it was warm in Berlin so I sat on my balcony in the sun and did what I had to do.



I don’t know … I just love this picture!
(taken in my hood)





Not much has happened the last week … I’m a bit ill, with a cold and cough, but I’m still walking through wintry, freezing, snowy Berlin.
I had a scanning appointment for my many pinhole camera negatives and realised once again: when the world, people and politics depress me, pictures fill my heart with a smile and gentle confidence.
This strange Hänsel and Gretel photo: me and my friend-who-flies-around-in-an-unknown-universe. … Fixing error? Minor solarisation? Sticky fingers? Black stars twinkling? I don’t know… but I find it mysterious and beautiful.

Today! Berlin in snow. This place is called Südstern (South Star), it’s a subway station. And Pizzeria Nuovo Primo behind me!
Pinhole photo, Illy Camera, 6 seconds exposure time.



… and three hours later it was there!



This car! Is it still in use? I don’t know, but I see it standing on different spots … but always around the Zickenplatz / Bitch or Goat Place … Zicke has both meanings!

Ah yes, I was sitting in / outside the Café Zazza when I took this photo. Zazza, I like you and your glorious coffee!

Today I found a bunch of shells in my street. Just made me happy, nothing else.




Found in the streets of Berlin.
… in winter. In Berlin, at Görlitzer Park. Me and my favourite Nizo super 8 camera, filming “Ishtar, Goddess of Love”!

(thank you Uli for the photo)



… that was the name of my recent workshop. Filming with double super 8 cameras! And even more adventurous: creating double exposures!
We used fresh Czech FOMA films and old ORWOs.
Developed in Caffenol, classical poisonous black & white reversal stuff like potassium permanganate & sulfuric acid and a little less toxic and more experimental: peroxide and acetic acid. Yummy stuff and beautiful results!!!




Ooooh too hot today in Berlin … 36° … my fur is melting … buy me icecream pleeeeaazze!!!

My atelier is in Kreuzberg, Adalbertstrasse. At the corner Waldemarstrasse there’s my favourite pre-summer phenomenon: the pinkest, fattest blossom miracle tree! Only for about a week. Everybody stops for a pink selfie, for a sniff, for a smile, for a chat. I love it!

The season has begun! Spring!


(Admiralbrücke, Berlin)
One hot summer day at Müggelsee. Berlin – Friedrichshagen – Tram 61 to „Licht- und Luftbad Müggelsee“ – Licht und Luft – Light and Air! Ducks come close, water is medium cool – I love it. A tiny little feeling of very late summer appeared and made me feel just a little … blue. Lake blue. Sky blue.




Yesterday, Oranienplatz, Berlin-Kreuzberg
My coffee camera again: 6 minutes exposure. People fading away. Cars and bikes, too. A still group of people remains visible.



The Admiralbrücke in Berlin-Kreuzberg has been a meeting point for some years now a cool place to hang live music makers and enjoyers, sunset watchers, party people, tourists, beerdrinkers and beerbottle smashers … I live just around the corner and pass by every now and then. Today I found some fresh written doodles, nice, artsy, funny, make more!
Here’s an english article (radio) about the pros and cons of this popular bridge. Sleepless in Kreuzberg …

Yeeha, the first Berlin-workshop is over (the second is in July and full).
7 people, 2 intense days full of filmish vibes, lucky developers, great ideas, infecting mood! It’s every time (this was only my 5th workshop so far) fascinating how people that have never met before can become very quickly like brothers and sisters in a boat! Thank you for being part of the wabisabi event, guys and chicas!!
This is Nadine hanging in a tree, Cécile despiralizing the freshly developed film from the spiral and Florian hanging 15 m of still wet film through the dark room while we were watching some films on the beamer.
Film on!


