Cinema Romantics

CINEMA ROMANTICS
Release concert and reading
Saturday, February 11, 2023, 5 p.m.
Cinema Lichtspiele Kalk/ Cologne

The idea for Cinema Romantics came up a few years ago in a Berlin bar. Zero Solaris and Graf Tati scribbled the names of their favorite actresses on their beer mats – film divas they would like to make songs about. Maybe all would have been forgotten by the next morning, but the coasters reappeared and the two began songwriting.

With the support of Kulturamt Köln, Cinema Romantics recorded their debut album and had it pressed on vinyl. In February 2023 the album was released on streaming platforms. Lucas Croon mixed the music and Italian photographer Cristina Coral provided one of the magnificent pictures for the record cover. Cécile Dupaquier and Miss Django provided spoken word for the recording.

Cinema Romantics present their film songs in front of the screen of the Lichtspiele Kalk. Between the musical performances, Miss Django reads texts about the movie actresses. The audience sits in the cinema seats, listens to the music, remembers film scenes and cinema experiences. Cinema Romantics is a homage to the cinema.

A concert with songs about Romy Schneider, Isabella Rossellini, Jeanne Moreau, Marlene Dietrich, Charlotte Rampling, Maggie Cheung, Pam Grier, Marilyn Monroe and other cinema actresses & actors

Vocals und keys: Zero Solaris
Vocals und guitar: Graf Tati
Reading: Miss Django
Public relation: Rosanna D´Ortona

Photo Record-Cover: Making architecture series (2018) Cristina Coral

Cinema Romantics has been supported by Kulturamt Köln

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Funded by GEMA in the frame of Neustart Kultur 2022

OSTEINGANG

Oliver Bedorf & Julia Horn: OSTEINGANG
Theaterperformance mit Archiv

26.11.2021, 20.00 Uhr
27.11.2021, 20.00 Uhr
28.11.2021, 18.00 Uhr

Ort: Alte Feuerwache Köln (Halle), Melchiorstraße 3, 50670 Köln
Tickets: https://t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/osteingang, 16 / 10 €

Der Osteingang des E.v.B.-Gymnasiums in Wipperfürth/ NRW war Pausenraum und Rückzugsort gleichermaßen. Dort wurde während der Achtziger Jahre in jeder Pause schnell eine Zigarette geraucht, bevor es mit dem Unterricht weiter ging. Dieser Ort ist Ausgangspunkt für eine Erinnerungs- und Theaterarbeit. Der Schauspieler/Musiker Oliver Bedorf und die Fotografin Julia Horn besuchen im Sommer 2021 zehn ehemalige Mitschüler*innen. Sie porträtieren diese Menschen in ihrem jetzigen Lebensumfeld und führen Interviews. Im Nachspüren aus heutiger Sicht geht es um die Sehnsüchte, Ideen und Träume von damals – und darum, was daraus geworden ist. Mit den gesammelten Bildern und Tonaufnahmen entsteht auf der Bühne ein neuer Osteingang in Form eines Archivs. Vier Tänzer*innen und Schauspieler*innen entwickeln Szenen zu dem Erinnerungsmaterial. Während des Theaterabends wechseln sich Szenen mit „Schulpausen“ ab, in denen die ZuschauerInnen selbst im Osteingang-Archiv stöbern dürfen.

ZERO SOLARIS hat das Thema auch musikalisch bearbeitet – entstanden ist die Vinyl-Single OSTEINGANG, die im Anschluss an die Theaterperformance am 26.11. veröffentlicht wird.

Konzept & Interviews: Oliver Bedorf, Julia Horn
Fotos & Ausstellung: Julia Horn
Bühne & Ausstattung: Cordula Körber
Produktionsassistenz: Genoveva Wieland
Mit Rike Joeinig, Adrián Castelló, Malin Gebken und Oliver Bedorf

Förderer: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln

 

Installation in Lutherturm Cologne from 03.03.21 – 06.03.21 as part of SOIRÉE SONIQUE with texts from the performance WASCHEN SCHNEIDEN HÖREN by Oliver Bedorf and Philine Herrlein. WASCHEN SCHNEIDEN HÖREN was funded in 2019 by Musikfonds e.V. and Kulturamt Köln.

Collaboration as a musician and as a performer on the theatre-piece
Wohnungsbesichtigung (house-tour)
by Philine Velhagen.
Previous dates:
22. – 24. November 2019, 27. – 30. November 2019 und 04.Dezember 2019,
Site specific location in Köln – Ehrenfeld

cinema romantics

photo: Cécile Dupaquier

Concert and reading
90 min

Zero Solaris: vocals & keys
Graf Tati: vocals & guitar
Miss Django: reading
Anakin Sender: drums

Marlene Dietrich in Marokko – secretly watched on my parents’ small black and white television when I was a little kid, through a crack in the door.Ingrid in Casablanca came later, then Grace Kelly in the Hitchcock movies of the 1950s. And then Romy Schneider in the French thrillers of the 1970s – complex, attractive and mysterious. David Lynch finally brought Nouvelle Vague to America and Isabella Rossellini sang Blue Velvet.Interesting, beautiful women were and are still mirror images of the emotional conflicts that are negotiated in the movies.
cinema romantics is an evening with pop-songs about both iconic movie actresses and their roles. The songs are played live in front of the movie screen, complemented by readings in which some of these divas themselves get a word. Sitting in the cinema chair, we hear songs and project our own film memories onto the screen. The cinema becomes a stage set for the cinema.

An evening with songs and texts about
Romy Schneider, Grace Kelly, Maggie Cheung, Isabella Rossellini, Pam Grier, Marilyn Monroe and other icons of cinema

The premiere of cinema romantics on 18.10.2019 at Filmclub 813 in Cologne was funded by Kulturamt der Stadt Köln and by Bezirksvertretung Köln Innenstadt.