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April 18th, 2008
The House on August Street took the 1st prize for the Best Documentary at the competition of the European association of Regional Television.

October 10th, 2007
Carolina Feix’s Marzipan got the first prize in the nederlands online film festival 2007, as the public’s choice! you can watch the film here

October 6th, 2007
Fliegende Ratten will show every Tuesday, 21.00 in the next weeks, in Z-inema in Berlin. A good chance to take a look at it again!

Ayelet Bargur’s Bet Ahava took the second prize at the internatinal Film Festival in Haifa, Israel.

and i got Nico Elijah, my first born son, 27.09.07 !!!

September 1st, 2007
Sue de Beer’s “The Quickening” and “Permanent Revolution”, will open today in Berlin, at the Arndt & Partner gallery, and will show there for the next 2 months. these 2 video installations, each 25min. long, were shot in berlin and genk (belgium) and are my latest cooperation with Sue.

you will find on this page, from time to time, some of my stills photos work. for more, check out my flickr page.

August 30th, 2007
Yariv Alter Fin 1968-2007
Yariv Alter Fin, artist, teacher, musician, “visual phylosopher”, died on tuesday 28.08.2007, in israel, in the age of 39. i got to know him personaly in amsterdam, long after growing up on the music of his and ronen hoffman’s DXM. it was while working with maya cohen on her movie “simon says”, in which he played a small roll (besides supporting every little bit of this production..) i wouldnt exadurate if i’d say i fell in love with him. he was an inspiring, kind, funny, super talented person. i and many many others will miss him a lot. may he rest in peace.
 
August 12th, 2007
end of june i got a spontaneous call from puma to cover their appearence at the Bread&Butter fashion show in Barcelona. and so i found myself there, one-man-show setup, first time in this beautiful mad city.

Sue de Beer’s installation “Blacksun” is showing at the ZKM, Karlsruhe, “Between two Deaths” (closing 19th Aug.). this exhibition, curated by Felix Ensslin and Ellen Blumenstein happens to host some of the most effective art works i met in the last years. worth visiting, to say the least!

Knut’s video is online :)

June 2nd, 2007
shootings of Friedemann Hottenbacher’s ‘Die Heimkehr’ were practically finished last week, after a 3 week production in Japan and a weekend in Wiesebaden and Bacharach. this project started exactly one year ago, and followed the last year of Friedemann’s parents, german who imigrated to Japan 49 years ago on a mission to “seed” there new christian communities. last week, after half a decade, they came back to Germany.

and 2 days ago i met the probably most famous character in Germany: KNUT. yes, yes. THE Knut, the polar white ice bear. after letting him chewing, grazing, licking and stroking my arms, legs, and other parts of my body and the cloth on them, i decided to collect my tax and stragled to get my picture with him, something to show to my grandchildren. it was part of the shooting for VOX’s Wissenshumger about “what eats Knust”. indeed, very interesting.

March 7th, 2007
in about one week im off for 2 weeks to Belgium, to shoot Sue’s new movie entitled “Permanent Revolution” about the Bauhaus school.
in between i work with Gotandafilm on their new “german class” (WT) project, where we follow immigrants in Berlin, on their integration course at the ‘Volkshochschule’ in kreuzberg.

new upload: max raabe in japan, the 10min DVD bonus edition. pretty sweet! check it out  

Januar 9th, 2007
so much time without an update. well well. where have i been, what have i done. . . August: Marzipan was finalized on a DaVinci system in amsterdam, premiered there a while after and found distributer in California!  
September: 10 days shoot of a 30min. documentary for 3sat, about Bloggers, pod- and videocasters with Friedemann Hottenbacher (Dir.)
October saw yet another interesting and brave act of no-budget short film production, with Dir. Lisa Wallmann’s “Tiefer als der Tag”. 16mm, shot in Ruegen. Right after, i found myself in Rhode Island, USA, chasing extremely big fires in a “disadter lab”, together with Marcel Weingaertner (Dir.) and Robert Coellen (1st camera), followed by a long weekend in NYC with *Sue!
November was dedicated to some smaller scale TV pieces with werwiewas, and .. making music (hmm.. should this be blogged somewhere else)
December – off to the middle-east to do the Israel-chunk of shooting for Ayelet Bargur’s “Ahavah” full length docu/drama project, which attends to come back to a very last set in berlin later this spring.
what else.. Just Married took 1st prize in Romania , invited to Delhi, and goes next to Rotterdam!

* if you’re fast enough (1 day left), you might catch Sue de Beer’s  The quickening NYC (check the photos in this link! pretty amazing installation)

now i go and move my flat , see you later..

Love! and happy new year to who ever reads this!!!

July 19th, 2006
Fliegende Ratten  will have its world-premiere on Friday, 21st of July, at the Munich Film Festival, followed by a second screening on the day after.
we made a film copy on 16mm reversal(!), cinemascope, of course.
Come and watch the wonder.

April 19th, 2006
Nemesis wrapped in Italy about 2 weeks ago. i was called to operate 2nd camera and make some lighting for DP Henning Brümmer, on this low budget production that took place in Castel di Tora, a village in the near of Rome.
Nicole Mosleh, first time full-length feature Director, wrote this wonderful psycho-thriller script and recruited a genius cast of Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Mühe (“Funny Games”, “Das Leben der Anderen”). We’ve accomplished that in 2 weeks of shoot.

and.. in 3 weeks im off to Tokyo, with Friedemann Hottenbacher and Gregor Streiber (werwiewas) to document Max Raabe’s tour in Japan.

and… somebody in Munich filmfestival got so excited by Fliegende Ratten,
that he invited us to finally world premiere it in the German Cinema competition, July 2006. Only left to figure out is, how to lay this digital cinemascopic piece on a  35mm film. Hint – 20,000€ . If anyone knows of some, please give me a call.  

February 14th, 2006
shailevy.com V6.0 (!) is born
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January 21st, 2006
Initial color corrections for Marzipan were made.
A sample of frames is now uploaded
Take a look
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! ;)

October 30th, 2005
Vicky Cohn’s “Der Besuch” (“The Visit”) took the “special international prize” at the  Fidec in Huy festival in Belgium!!!
Sue de Beer’s “The Quickening” was wrapped 2 days ago. Here are some first photos made by Sue.

September 26th, 2005
3 months no update, is due to a momentary slow connection to the world wide web, yielding a severe, yet not unhealthy diet…
congratulations for Awards and Rewards to:
Era Lapid, who took the prize for editing Just Married, Wolgin Competition, Jerusalem.
Katja Zanger won a prize for “Best concept” for Honigkuss at the Galaoshots competition in Berlin, and Vicky Cohn for entring Der Besuch to an international film festival – Fidec in Huy, Belgium.. goodluck!
Marzipan, a short film by Amsterdam-based artist Carolina Feix, supported by the Dutch Film Fund, co-produced with Inselfilm, Berlin, was shot in Beelitz, 13th – 15th of September on super 16mm. Just came back from the Lab in Amsterdam.. all looks good :) Check out the website for some really nice pictures from the set.
The Quickening is Sue de Beer’s new project is now in pre-production and will be shot October 16th – 29th in Berlin Pankow, with an exclusive participation of the two and only Cobra Killer, as well as Travis Jeppesen. We’re about to set up psychedelic scenes in a 1741 puritan America…! and some other, mostly evil stuff.

June 27th, 2005
“Just Married”  entered the Intern. Film Festival in Jerusalem and will take part in the “Wolgin Awards for Israeli Cinema”. Screening date: July 10th.

May 12th, 2005
“Simon Says” wrapped after 5 days shooting in Amsterdam. A 30min comedy, written, directed and produced by Maya Cohen, icluded four different roles which were played by her.
Watch out, this is cult…coming soon.

March 2nd, 2005
My 2005 Showreel is uploaded!
“Black Sun”, a 2 channel video installation by Sue de Beer, opens today at the Whitney Altria NYC, and will run until June 17th.

January 12th, 2005
A six day European Film Academy Master Class with Anthony Dod Mantle is over. 18 cinematographers from 11 different countries, myself among them, came together to learn something about “Developing A Personal Visual Dictionary”, as the Master Class’ theme entitled.
We were experimenting with different (35mm, HD and DV) formats, shooting and processing with high-end post production tools, watching some films and sharing thoughts and ideas.
All and all.. wonderful experience!

December, 3rd, 2004
“Der Besuch” is finally done and will premiere at the Arsenal kino in Berlin, Sunday, 12.12.04, 13:30.
A new mini-site www.derbesuch.tk is under constructions and will soon show the new trailer. At the moment you will find there only the invitations for the screening.  
see ya there!

November, 12th, 2004
a DVD with the very first rough-cut version of “Fliegende Ratten”  made it to my hands… so now you can watch the opening sequence. get a taste of it while it’s still raw!
Helga, Johanna and Kerstin asked me to join them on documenting the demolition of the “Casino”, a famous night club in Berlin. i took my materials and played with it. this is “Abriss”.

October, 15th, 2004
New website, new projects, new uploads…
One busy summer i had — “Fliegende Ratten”, my debut full length feature is being edited these very days. A trailer should be ready soon and will be uploaded.
Fliegende Ratten Shoot report
Fliegende Ratten Cast and Crew
“Black Sun”, my second and very enjoyable cooperation with New Yorker artist Sue de Beer, was shot in Berlin late September. It is again, a 2Channel Video Installation, 25min. length, will premiere in New York, at the Whitney Altria, March 2005. Some images from the piece at Sue’s webpage.
A new section – ‘Other’, under ‘Watch’. You’ll find there the New Puma@BBB image film i shot for Puma Germany, directed by Viola Göpel. also in this section, an oldy video i pulled out of my archives – B.Boom, a sweet little thing i made back at 2001 in 2 hours shootings + 4 hours editing.
Last but not least, “Der Besuch” will finally  premiere next month at the “Arsenal”, Berlin. I will keep you posted regarding this.. meanwhile you can watch again and again the famous Teaser.