At the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.
As the co-organiser of the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. We are an independent weeklong festival organised with a love for all kinds and genres of short films and music videos and are quite grateful to have a wide audience attending our screenings. Our 17th edition will be taking place in Berlin from 18th until 24th January 2024.
For this edition I am planning a retrospective programme about the Acid House and Rave-scenes of the 90s, showcasing essential short films, documentaries and music videos from that time an beyond. Amongst the films we will be showing is the documentary RAVE (1997) by Torstein Grude and the music film WEEKENDER (1992) directed by Wiz. While researching (I was in contact with Aaron Trinder, the director of the recent documentary FREE PARTY: A FOLK HISTORY amongst others) I found out about your amazing photographs of the Free Party-scene and the Castlemorton Common Festival in 1992.
Since every year we have an exhibition as part of the British Shorts Film Festival at the cinema bar of Sputnik Kino (https://www.sputnik-kino.com) located in Berlin-Kreuzberg, I want to enquire whether there is a possibility to exhibit some of these great pictures in this setting. They would be able to provide more context to the retrospective film programme and give some great insights of this time to our audience attending the festival.To give you an idea, exhibitions in the past couple of years included “The Ties That Bind” by Grey Hutton, works from The British Culture Archive and “Don’t Call Me Urban: The Time of Grime” by Simon Wheatly.
You can find more information about our festival and past programmes on our website and social media:
https://www.britishshorts.de/history.html
https://www.instagram.com/britishshorts
https://de-de.facebook.com/BritishShorts
If this sounds interesting, I would be happy to hear back from you. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding our festival or this exhibition idea.
Henning Koch
