BANDS ON BOATS...

... the new film project of Gabriele Kahnert in collaboration with Dagie Brundert.

BANDS ON BOATS is going to be a 80 min documentary shot on super 8.

I am looking for musicians / bands – women, men, old, young, known, unknown. You have one thing in common: you live and work in Berlin and you don’t care for mainstream or the brazen laws of music industry. All that counts for you is your creativity, your originality, the fun of it as well as your love for music. You are personalities who dare something, who are looking for something new, trying to find and develop new forms, who consciously don’t want to fulfill clichés, who built and found a niche for yourselves.

Part of the film will be shot on a boat on the Berlin canals. To complete these scenes there will be takes that portray the bands, their work and their philosophy, corresponding to their specific music and nature.

I will shoot the film exclusively on super 8 (colour, black/white, diverse light sensivities, partly self processed …). Using the film material’s special quality that is capable to capture in its images the intensity of music and the originality of the bands I will create a spirited, quirky and unique portrait of Berlin.

The first round:
The Neukölln Edition

Saturday June 27 (being part of the Kunst & Kulturfestival 48-Stunden Neukölln), we were floating along the Neukölln canal on a boat called “Spreeprinzessin“ from 6 to 10 pm. We (and a lucky audience - about 200 people every round!) departed every hour on the hour at Wildenbruchbrücke.
We had 4 fantastic Bands on board:

Kör Sakta!
Milsantos
Boundary Jim
A Pony Named Olga