Documentary film
English & German, with English, German, Spanish, French, Italian & Polish subtitles

The monks were 5 American GI’s in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in bla...

Documentary film
English & German, with English, German, French & Spanish subtitles

Donna Summer dominated the worldwide pop charts in the 70s with such dance floor classics as Love to Love You, I Feel Love, Last Dance, Hot Stuff, Bad Girls and She Works Hard for the Money. Filmmakers Post and P...

Documentary film
German, with English, Spanish & German subtitles

A film about the interplay between pop culture and extreme right ideology, which reflects the development of nationalist music since the late 1970s in Germany.
For decades, popular culture was considered modern and emancipatory bu...

Documentary film
English & German, with English, German & Spanish subtitles

A direct cinema style documentary film about the pop avant-garde music festival Klangbad, curated by legendary Hans-Joachim Irmler (founding member of the seminal Krautrock band Faust). With Circle, Faust, Kammerflimmer ...

Documentary film
Spanish & German, with English, French, German & Spanish subtitles

After the success of Franco´s Settlers, their first encounter with Franco’s dictatorship, filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios tackle in Franco on Trial one of the most undisclosed chapters of European hist...

play loud! (live) word series

Spanish without subtitles
After the German premiere of "Franco on Trial" on October 16, 2018 in Berlin, a panel discussion took place featuring Carlos Castresana (Former State Prosecutor at the Spanish Supreme Court), Fernando Martínez (Head of department of Histori...

Documentary film
Spanish & German, with English, French, Romanian, German & Spanish subtitles

Somewhere on the high plains of La Mancha in Spain resides a village that carries the name of its creator, Francisco Franco. The translation for the village’s name Llanos del Caudillo is The High Plains...

play loud! (live) word series

Spanish without subtitles
After the preview screening of "Franco´s Settlers" October 28, 2012 in Berlin, a panel discussion took place featuring Carlos Castresana (Spanish Supreme Court Prosecutor), Felipe González (Spanish prime minister between 1982-1996) and 
Em...

Documentary film
English, with English, Spanish & German subtitles

Filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios accompanied Reverend Billy and his troupe over the period of an entire year. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones within the island o...

Stille / Silence / Silencio

Filmed in 1984 at Parkzicht, Rotterdam, during a Gods Gift´s short tour of Holland and Belgium. This is the only footage of a live show by the Manchester post-punk band ever and has never been released before.
"Gods Gift were around when lots of Manchester groups were gaining fame and fortune. Ma...

play loud! (live) music series

FILM I: "Alan Vega Live at Rockpalast 1982" (53:42 min). The concert was filmed at Sartory Säle in Cologne (Germany) during the 82' "Collision Drive" tour.
FILM II: Art exhibition "Alan Suicide: Collision Drive 2002" at Deitch Projects in New York City (16:40 min)...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on 6th of December 2017 at Privatclub, Berlin.

Locust Fudge are:
Dirk Dresselhaus: guitar, bass, vocals
Christopher Uhe: bass, guitar, vocals
Chikara Aoshima: drums, percussion

Guests:
Lucio Capece: saxophones
Werner "Zappi" Diermaier: metal percussion
Gwe...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on October 15, 2017 at Club Berghain (Kantine) in Berlin.
Read here Christoph Gurk's linernotes to the "Sturm und Twang" compilation, 1995 Big Cat Records:
"Led by an acidhead, who is already in his thirties, the singer/songwriter band has lived through an e...

play loud! (live) music series

play loud! presents two films by Helga Tiedemann about the band Anima Sound/Anima (Limpe and Paul Fuchs).
The first film (1972) documents Anima-Sound as they caravan across Europe in a homemade trailer pulled by a tractor, intermittently setting up outdoor performa...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on March 20, 2015 at Grend in Essen (Germany). It was the band´s first show after they had stopped playing in 1994.
Read here Christoph Gurk's linernotes to the "Sturm und Twang" compilation, 1995 Big Cat Records:
"Led by an acidhead, who is already in his t...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed in year 2011 at the Klangbad Festival in Scheer (Germany).

Limpe Fuchs is a legend in the experimental music scene. In the late sixties, this percussionist drummed on self-made instruments, together with her then husband Paul Fuchs, in the Ensemble Anima. ...

play loud! (live) music series

A shadow theater performed in October 2010 during the culture days in Sophienkirche in München-Riem (Germany). Written and performed by Gisela Oberbeck, with music composed and performed by Limpe Fuchs.

"Animare – Trails in the World’s Chaparral" is a story about ...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed in year 2010 at Lido Berlin. Guru Guru is a German Krautrock band formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier (drums), Uli Trepte (bass) and Eddy Naegeli (guitar) later replaced by American Jim Kennedy (guitar). In time for their debut in 1970, A...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on January 7th, 2013 at Volksbühne in Berlin (Germany).
Lydia Lunch has for the past 3 decades forged a unique body of work that bares testimony to a creative schizophrenia which encompasses film, poetry, the spoken & written word, music and photography. She...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on December 15, 2011 at Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin (Germany).
CAN drummer Jaki Liebezeit and electronic music producer Burnt Friedman share a preference for less common rhythms. The artists have consciously turned away from Western European, Anglo-American...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on October 22, 2011 at HBC in Berlin (Germany). The band performed three songs of 47 minutes. The film was shot in one continuous 47 min long take, except for the head credits.

"In the days of youtube, easy-to-use video cameras and quite a good recording qu...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on November 24th, 2011 at Marie-Antoinette in Berlin. Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers performed one song of 122 minutes. The film was shot in one continuous 122 minutes long take. Neither the filmmakers nor the band members knew what was going to happen. Music ...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on August 5, 2011 at the Klangbad Festival curated by Hans Joachim Irmler (founding member of the band Faust) in one continuous 64 min long take.
Christine Edwards and Emily Manzo are two singers from New York, who also play piano and electric guitar full of...

play loud! (live) music series

Filmed on November 29, 2009 at Berghain in Berlin.
The third film within our play loud! (live) music series features two giants of German avant-garde pop music. Hans Joachim Irmler is one of the founding member of the krautrock legend Faust. FM Einheit is a former ...

play loud! (live) music series

The play loud! team captured the two brothers Hannes and Andi Teichmann on May 5th, 2011 at the closing night of world famous Berlin club Maria am Ostbahnhof. The show was recorded in one single take of 70 minutes. No edits except for the head and tail credits.
Whe...

play loud! (live) music festival

The film captures one of the rare live performances by the seminal Krautrock band Faust, which took place 2009 at the pop avant-garde music festival Klangbad, curated by legendary Hans-Joachim Irmler (founding member Faust).

There are two kinds of rock festivals...

play loud! (live) music series

On August 21, 2009 filmmakers Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios were invited to witness one of the rare home studio sessions of Berlin based Floating Di Morel. This is how the play loud! (live) music series was born. Please enjoy a summer evening with Floating Di Morel...

play loud! (live) word series

German without subtitles
In November of 2011 the play loud! team talked to Mani Neumeier about his life as a musician and artist. During the conversation, he commented on film footage from an open air gig during the art fair "Kunstzone München 1971", which ended in ...

Short Film
English with German and Spanish subtitles

Harsh theatrical monologue by a desperate man. Ray is a crack addict who has not scored for too long. Withdrawal symptoms cloud his paranoid mind. He sharpens his knife to take it out on his girlfriend who fled with his pipe and his crack. Som...

Short film
English, with German & Spanish subtitles

Bowl of Oatmeal was the final project done by six students during an eleven-week intensive film course at New York University, which has become a classic of American underground cinema.
The film is about a seriously disturbed loner who imagines...