The Directors

Gabriele Kahnert | script, production, cinematographie, montage

1996 Master of visual communication/experimental film, University of Arts, Berlin
from 1991 freelance artist

exhibitions / grants (selection)
2008 Scholarship Berlin Senate, Film research for the documentary »BANDS ON BOATS«
2007 Premiere of the music documentary “CALEXICO NEXT EXIT”
2005 Film funding Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg for the feature length documentary
“CALEXICO NEXT EXIT”
2002 »Interieur – der schöne Schein«, KMZA, Berlin
2001 »Intime Expeditionen«, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe und Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1999 Book release »Bühnen der Macht« / »Structures of Power«
1997-2000 Scholarship Hamburg Institute for Social Research for the project »Bühnen der Macht -
Bilder aus Bonn und Berlin« / »Structures of Power – Pictures from Bonn and Berlin«
1997 GOLDRAUSCH Scholarship, Berliner Senate
1996 »Der soziale Blick - Gesellschaftliche Bezugspunkte künstlerischer Photographie«, ART Frankfurt
1993/94 Scholarship Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1992 Scholarship Berlin Senate, Film research for the film »Ostfilm«
1992 »37 Räume«, Kunst-Werke, Berlin

Dagie Brundert | super 8 technique

1991 Master of visual communication/experimental film, University of Arts, Berlin
from 1988 film maker, films and short film programs on international film festivals
from 2008 Super 8 workshop teacher (“The Wabi-Sabi in Super 8“) in Berlin, Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Dresden, Cambridge/London

awards / grants (selection)
2008 Scholarship Berlin Senate, Film research for the documentary »BANDS ON BOATS«
2007 Premiere of the experimental music documentary “CALEXICO NEXT EXIT”
2007 Artist in Residence, Echopark Filmcenter, Los Angeles
2007 Audience Award for „Foxy Lady in Winterland“, Strawberry Super 8 Festival, Cambridge, UK
2006 Lifetime Achievement Award for Super 8 Films, Images Festival Toronto
2005 Film funding Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg for the feature length documentary “CALEXICO NEXT EXIT”
1999 3sat-Award for „Ja ja die schönste auf der Welt ist meine Bar“, Short Film Festival Oberhausen
1998 1st Prize No Budget Jury for „Schmetterlingsküsse“, International Short Film Festival Hamburg

films (selection)
23 Barbiepuppen kippen um (1988) • Die 6 Astronauten (1992) • Bruder + Schwester im Schnee (1994) • Zeitpunsch (1995) Ishtar, Göttin der Liebe (1996) • Die coole Bar am Klondyke-River (1998) • Schmetterlingsküsse (1998) • Milchwolken Liebe (2002) • Counting Cats Counting Sheep (2005) • Durch Rotwein durch (2006) • Der Sonne hinterher – Follow the Sun (2007) • XO – A Hug and a Cookie (2008) • The Self-Healing of my Bike(2008) • Ode to June (2008) • Red Nightlight (2009)