WATCHBERLIN
From January to June 2008 I was senior editor and video producer for the ambitious experiment WatchBerlin of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. The online video magazine presented three exclusive videos per day out of Germany’s capital. They decorated us amongst others with the LEAD-Award but at the end of 2008 the project was completely taken offline. You stil find some of the videos on YouTube.
This is a little collection of my favorites I was involded (please watch also 1 Minute Berlin):
Lorenzo, portrait of a Berlin-Mitte guy (above)
A short portrait about Lorenz Peters, a well known party maker in Berlin’s nineties. He tells us about his heavy drug experiences and how he survived the 20 years of hardcore clubbing in Berlin. For that portrait I did the camera and the editing. The complete clip was produced within 15hours. Shooting in the afternoon and editing the whole night.
// Interview - Tim Brandt, Antonia Baum / Video - Mirko Kubein //
100x Berlin in Super8
In June 2008 an exhibition started with old amateur films about Berlin made on Super8 material. Jürgen Lossau collected thousand of films of every past decade (war, wall, east, west,…) from flea markets. In an old brewery cellar he screened 100 of them at the same time with 8mm-projectors. Impressive sound and scary images…
// Interview, Video - Mirko Kubein //
Book.Book - Klaus Wagenbach’s Kafka Collection
Klaus Wagenbach is a famous german publisher and collector of devotional objects by author Franz Kafka. When the FAZ-journalist Volker Weidermann visited him in his Berlin appartment in 2008 Wagenbach presented him some originals of world-famous photographs of Kafka.
// Interview - Volker Weidermann / Video - Mirko Kubein //
Boing Boing Berlin - Cory Doctorow Interview
The net-theorist, sci-fi-author and blogger Cory Doctorow presented his novel Eastern Standard Tribe in Berlin. On his trip to the airport we talked about video in the internet, timezones and copyright.
// Interview, Editing - Simon Ruschmeyer / Kamera - Mirko Kubein //
