Burlypicks is the international burlesque competition including musicians,stripteasers, dancers, jugglers, clowns, you name it. The German annual edition is coming up again on May the 1st in White Trash and we know it's gonna be a great party, with guests that include...
Ferkel Johnson is a passionate clown, burlesque artist and maitre de ceremonie and it feels he just naturally belongs onto the stages of the cabarets, theaters and circusses where he enchants his audience. At the moment he features in the Gin Palace Cabaret and is...
British filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson’s adaption of British author E.L. James’s controversial and best-selling erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey,” about the relationship between a 21-year-old college student and a 27-year-old billionaire who is into bondage and...
The Ride | Short Film from Timothy Melville on Vimeo. A short film for the hopeless romantic in us all, by Melbourne filmmaker Timothy Melville. cast BENJAMIN RIGBY and BELINDA MISEVSKI writer director TIMOTHY MELVILLE producers CHRISTINA REMNANT and NICKY PASTORE...
Pietro Celesia, The J Line, WHITECONCEPTS Gallery, 2-15 February 2015 How long is now? That would be my punchline for Pietro Celesia’s first Berlin solo exhibition The J Line now on display at WHITECONCEPTS in Mitte. Last Friday evening was the official opening; as...
Michael Spencer Jones is a photographic legend, creating the visual images that defined Britpop, with his covers of all the biggest Oasis albums as well as Suede and the Verve, as well as being constantly by the side of Oasis as they cut their swathe through the...
Mario Testino needs no introduction: one of the best known photographers of the present day, his iconic images celebrating sex and celebrity, as well as more traditional portrait work such as his famous shoot with Princess Diana shortly before her death, has made him...
The Berlin Independent Film Festival runs at the same time as the Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival’s European Film Market and claims to be “just down the street” from EFM, but is actually held at the Babylon Cinema near Rosa Luxemburg Platz, which is...
Boddinale is an alternative, competitive, independent film festival held on the same dates as the Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival. This year’s festival is the third edition, and it is bigger than ever, with 82 films and a second venue added. In addition...
After a bad breakup, Zoe Smallman decides to take down her ex-boyfriend in a wizard rock battle of the bands. I Ship It is a short film about breaking up from Yulin Kuang, a Los Angeles-based screenwriter, lady director, and "fangirl filmmaker and general TV nerd"....
Yes, it’s time again for the Berlinale, the Golden Bear, one of my favorite film festivals of the year, which up until now I have always watched from afar from my sleepy little Swiss home, dreaming of the big city full of film and fashion. And while there are so many...
Ever since the mid-1980s, Nick Cave has been associated with Berlin. During that period, the Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and actor lived in Berlin for five years. Part of his stay has been immortalized in small-club concert...
