— MAY 2012

I just completed a music video for the German folk-rock band Acoustic Revolution, which had its premiere on MyVideo. An HD version is on my Vimeo page here.

Legacy won Best Music Video at the Corti da Sogni International Short Film Festival in Italy, and has been selected for the Rüsselsheimer Filmtage, Detmold International Film Festival, and ClipAward Short Film Festival. 

On 5th May, a selection of my films will screen at Ritter Butzke as part of ‘Im Rausch Mit Freunden Festival’. The ‘Bryn Chainey Block’ starts at 1am.

— APRIL 2012

Legacy won Best Music Video at the Sehsüchte Film Festival, plus a special mention in the Foreign Short Film category of the Rome Independent Film Festival. This month it was also selected for the Mountaineer Film Festival, 20min|max Filmfestival, Kurzfilmfestival Filmsalat, and Kurzfilmtage Thalmässing.

Real Love screens 12-30 April as part of the exhibition ‘O PESO E A IDEIA’ at the Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon.  

— MARCH 2012

2.7 XO 17, the music video I directed for Berlin band Fenster, is now finished. It premiered on the Independent Film Channel on March 5th. Splendid.

On 31st March I’ll have a DJ set at Madame Claude, 11pm-3am.

Legacy has been selected for the Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival and Neisse Film Festival in Germany, the Clare Valley Film Festival in South Australia, the Kyiv International Film Festival in Ukraine, the Magma Short Film Festival in New Zealand, and the Konkurs Filmów Amatorskich i Niezależnych in Poland.

— FEBRUARY 2012

On February 9, Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness will screen as part of the Shortcutz Berlin 2011 retrospective. 9pm @ Filmkunst Bar, Reichenbergerstraße 133.

Legacy has been selected for the Rome International Film Festival, the Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids in Australia and both the Dresden International Film Festival and Goldener Spatz Children’s Media Festival in Germany.

— JANUARY 2012

February 3rd will be the opening of the one-week group exhibition ‘Holiday Island’ at the Supermarkt Gallery Berlin. I’ll be sharing photographs from the artist-residency I did in Samatzai last year.

Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness received two prizes at the Shortcutz Berlin 2011 Awards: Best Art Direction & Best Special/Visual Effects. We also received nominations for Best Direction and Best Screenplay.

On January 26th, 6-8pm, I’ll play an exotica DJ set at the Lomography Gallery Store Berlin. Expect birdsongs and voodoo incantations.

This month Legacy won second prize at the Kurzfilmfest Greifswald and was also selected for the Spokane International Film Festival in Washington and the International Film Festival for Humor & Satire.

Right now I’m in production on a music video for the Berlin/NY band Fenster, and am writing a graphic novel with the Hamburg-based illustrator Steven Bagatzky. Really excited about these collaborations.

— DECEMBER 2011

This month I created a Christmas video with my chum Thaddäus Meilinger and his dear old granny. You can watch it here: Schöne Bescherung

Legacy - the music video I directed for Danish band Alcoholic Faith Mission - made it into Radar’s top ten videos of the year. The video also screened this month in the Kurzfilmfest Greifswald, Dec 15-16, and at the Eiszeitkino in Berlin-Kreuzberg on the 9th.

How to Make Noise and Störung screened this month at the Berlin Heimathafen Theatre as part of the theatrical dada-happening ‘The Uncanny Return of Arthur Cravan’.

— NOVEMBER 2011

On November 15th I’ll compete in the world cup of Philosophical Football at the Altes Finanzamt, Berlin. Love that place. I’ll also be speaking at the launch of Anonymous Authors Editions on the 17th, same venue.

Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness screens this month at the XXI Fantastic Film Festival of Malaga. 

Recently I collaborated on a music video for the Australian hip-hop group Jungle Traffic, which is online here. ‘twas a pleasure working with the prodigious miss Georgia Potter.

— OCTOBER 2011

I’ve been selected for the 2011 Apulian Experience Screenwriters Fellowship Program, which is a three-week intensive residency in Italy for European screenwriters. Me and fifteen others will participate in workshops while developing new film ideas inspired by the Apulia region and its community. High five, life.

— SEPTEMBER 2011

On September 24th (starting 11pm) I will have a DJ set at Madame Claude, Lübbenerstraße 19. Why not drop by and say how-do-you-do.

How to Make Noise screens this month in the paper-media exhibition Vasfü IV, 21-25 September at the Miskolci Galéria in Hungary. 

This month I’ve been invited for two retrospective screenings of my short films. Spooky. One happens on September 6th at S.I.N. Bar Kvartina No. 62, Lübbenerstraße 18 as part of Spitzenkino; the second is on September 14th, 9pm at the Altes Finanzamt. 

— AUGUST 2011

Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness will screen in the Special Program of the 10th International Kansk Video Festival, August 19-27th in Siberia.

— JULY 2011

Legacy (music video for Alcoholic Faith Mission) has been invited to screen at the Ballhaus Ost Musikvideoabend on July 9th. This month it has also been featured on Radar Music Videos and selected for the Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival in October. 

— JUNE 2011 

How to Make Noise will screen as part of the Random Access Memory exhibition at Mica Moca (Berlin) from 24-26 June.

Coincidentally, Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness will also screen at Mica Moca as part of the Morgenvogel Real Estate exhibition on July 1st, 7pm.

— MAY 2011

Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness screens in-competition at Shortcutz Berlin on May 5th.

Genau! Sardinia have invited me and two other artists for a residency in Sardinia in June. I’ll be working on a project while there, then participating in a group exhibition in Berlin later in the year. More details as they come.

We just launched the music video for Legacy by the Danish band Alcoholic Faith Mission. On May 5th it’ll be Video Of The Day on AOL/Spinner, but anyway I’ve embedded it on this page. (FYI, the five mice we used came pre-frozen for snake consumption. Waste not want not.)

— APRIL 2011

Upcoming DJ sets:
16.04 11pm @ Amandus Film Festival, Norway (eclectic shimmy)
19.04 11pm @ Madame Claude, Berlin (eclectic noddy)
21.04 5-8pm @ Lomography Gallery Store, Berlin (chiptune)

On the 5th of April there was a secret screening of Film for the Boxed and Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness. But what’s the point of that?

This month I’ll be a guest speaker at the Amandus Film Festival for Young Filmmakers in Norway, and some of my films will be screened too. Me = nervous.

— MARCH 2011

The Nipkow Programm have awarded me a writing fellowship for my first feature-length screenplay (working title,The Geometry of Apocalypse). Every year these guys offer grants for European media professionals to develop projects in Berlin, which is a pretty spiffy thing indeed. Visit their website for more details.