I’m excited about the upcoming month of June … this means: another “Ode an Juni / Ode to June” film! Just made the title … (the phone lying on my Nizo camera filming me in timelapse mode …)

unterwegs in Sachen Film >>> <<< on the road making films!
I’m excited about the upcoming month of June … this means: another “Ode an Juni / Ode to June” film! Just made the title … (the phone lying on my Nizo camera filming me in timelapse mode …)

From “Ode an Juni 13”: “Making jam made me think of an early childhood memory: great-grandma, skinny, old and dark, standing in the doorway of a dark house, smelling warm and like … marmelade!”
I realize that I love drawing. Spontaneously and without thinking. I shall do it more. Drawing film maybe. Watch out!

Last week at HBK (Art School) in Braunschweig.
Workshopping and June filming!

So I’m spending all evenings hugging my computer and FinalCutPro, finishing my “Ode an Juni / Ode to June” film! The 12th! This one will be 18 minutes long. Give me a few more days and it will be online …

I have a preview scanner at home … here comes a little scene from my upcoming June film!!

I filmed each and every day of my beloved month June.
This is #10 in my kitchen: preparing a veggie soup (for developing!)
And #12 … where was it? Ute’s kitchen I think!


Hello goodbye Hildesheim, Köln, Hamburg, Bremen!
June is over now and I am still dizzy.








Here it comes again! My month! My June!
I’m filming every day … just a little bit. Until in the end all the little pieces (super 8 of course) will merge into a diary like Berlin and elsewhere symphony!
More info about this project here: Ode To June.






I made this picture by mistake … it is a film still from my new “Ode an Juni / Ode to June” film. I used a very expired Ektachrome colour film and this is what I got: something muddy pink!
But I love it …
Now I start editing my 11th Ode an Juni / Ode to June film!
“In diesem Monat werde ich sehr viel unterwegs sein, Workshops und Filmfestival und Bokel, wo der geheimnisvolle Zirkuswagen steht und seinen Zauber voll entfaltet und wo ich eigentlich hauptsächlich die coolen netten Hühnchen abfilme!
I will be on the road a lot this month … a workshop, a film festival and Bokel, the Bokel, place of the mysterious gypsy caravan which is unfolding its magic … the place of funny and friendly free running chicken!
Und wo es das schönste Freibad von ganz Norddeutschland gibt! They have the most beautiful public pool of North Germany there!”
Shot completely on super 8 (what else …) … it will be about 20 minutes long. Here is some info about all my June films.

“Ode an Juni” is a kind of infinite life work shot on Super 8.
In 2008, I started to capture June, my ultimately favorite month, in picture and sound.
Diary film, Berlin portrait, life excerpt, colorful poem, something like that now every year.
Number 7 from this year’s June is almost ready!!!!!
I am just about to edit the credits!
Update: Here it is!!!

My new June film is ready! 22 long minutes, all super 8. A poem of summer, 30 days of my life.
The Regenbogen-Kino (Rainbow-Cinema) in Kreuzberg is one of the last completely independant self-run cinemas in Berlin with a history rooting in punky house squatting aera in the 80es. Small and totally lovely with big soft sofas and a hi-tech Beamer. And a 35 mm projector!
I had a show there last Saturday showing my „Ode an Juni / Ode to June“ films – 4 pieces, each about 20 minutes long, super 8 origin, one after the other with a little break between to refill our glasses with summer wine: local Brandenburg cherries with white wine and champagne. Thank you for sharing this evening with me! Next year again …

I do it every year now. Every June. I film each day of my favourite month. Purely super 8. Colour. Every day a little bit, no rules, no limit, even if I don’t really feel like … I have to. Just grab my camera and film whatever I’m doing.
June #4 is ready now, took me some time to finish it, sorry, too much shit work to do. I’d love to do only filming. I guess I need a sponsor. Someone who believes in me and says: dear Dagie, I believe in you, I’ll give you 2000 bucks (Euro or Dollar, I don’t care) each month, go ahead, make art. Until it happens I just continue.
Watch it here >> on youtube

