WITHOUT US 🚕🌡️🌑
ΜΙΑ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΤΡΑΓΩΔΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΚΛΙΜΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΑΛΛΟΤΡΙΩΣΗ. A RADICAL TALE OF EMPATHY AMIDST ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE.
Στο Διεθνές Διαγωνιστικό Τμήμα Μυθοπλασίας, παρουσιάζουμε το "Without Us" των Daniel Brandt και Anthony Dickenson. Σε μια εποχή όπου οι ειδήσεις προμηνύουν το «τέλος του κόσμου», μια ριζοσπαστικοποιημένη οδηγός ταξί αναπτύσσει έναν απροσδόκητο δεσμό με μια 13χρονη επιβάτιδα. Μαζί, έρχονται αντιμέτωπες με τη διαστρέβλωση των social media και τη βαριά κληρονομιά του εξτρεμισμού.
Μια κινηματογραφική σπουδή πάνω στην απομόνωση και την κλιματική καταστροφή. Οι Brandt και Dickenson συνθέτουν ένα οπτικό δοκίμιο που λειτουργεί ως προειδοποίηση για την επόμενη γενιά, εξερευνώντας πώς μια μισανθρωπική ορμή μπορεί τελικά να οδηγήσει στην επανακάλυψη της ενσυναίσθησης. Από τους ηλεκτροακουστικούς ήχους του Brandt Brauer Frick μέχρι την περιβαλλοντική ευαισθησία του Dickenson, το "Without Us" είναι μια βαθιά συναισθηματική εμπειρία με πειραματική αιχμή.
In this year’s International Fiction Competition, we present "Without Us" by Daniel Brandt and Anthony Dickenson. A radicalized taxi driver forms an unexpected bond with a 13-year-old passenger amid environmental collapse. Together, they confront social media's distortion and the legacy of extremism.
A profound reflection on the climate catastrophe, delivered in the style of a modern Greek tragedy. Bridging the gap between cinematic storytelling and experimental art, the film follows a loner who, through a radical plan to save the planet, ultimately rediscovers her own humanity. A cautionary tale and a powerful meditation on sound, soul, and survival.
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#PsarokokaloISFF #WithoutUsFilm #DanielBrandt #AnthonyDickenson #InternationalFiction #ClimateCrisis #ShortFilm #ExperimentalCinema #GreekTragedy #AylinTezel #Cinephile #EnvironmentalArt #SocialMediaDistortion 🚕🌱🌍🎬
»Without Us« at @ctmfestival 31.1.26 Volksbühne Berlin
— a collision of cinema, live music, and rave energy, exploring climate breakdown, collective anxiety, protest, and the radicalisation of online discourse. A speculative narrative shaped by the slow violence of ecological collapse and the fragile limits of individual agency. A live concert interwoven with film, culminating in an apocalyptic rave.
Tickets via link in bio or without-us.org
commissioned by @barbicancentre
film directed by @danielbrandt_ & @tonedefinitely
film produced by @anorak_film@strrrtv@marnifilms
starring @aylin.tezel@darceyportercassidy
trombone: @florianjuncker
guitar, bass, moog: @akusmi
drums: @faaaaab
drums & synth: Daniel Brandt
light design: @last.light.design
sound: @mario_a_leal
Multi Faith Prayer Room (audio only) is showing at V&A East Storehouse this week as part of V&A East Soundhouse - a three-day long transformation of the Storehouse into a living instrument.
Organised by the 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research in collaboration with UCL East and Yamaha.
Wednesday, 5 - Friday, 7 November 2025
Gallery 2 of V&A East Storehouse
10.00 - 18.00
Free entry
Visit the website multifaithprayerroom.com with all submissions. Link in bio.
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Created by Daniel Brandt \\ content director: Max Dax, Daniel Brandt \\ composition: Brandt Brauer Frick, Marina Herlop \\ vocals: Marina Herlop, Heidi Heidelberg \\ collage: Paul Frick, Daniel Brandt, Anna Friedberg \\ produced by STRRR, Robot Heart Foundation, Brandt Brauer Frick \\ Funded by Robot Heart Foundation
Multi Faith Prayer Room is a black box of wishes and hopes, a cross-disciplinary project that collects today’s utopian ideas and future desires from people and transforms them into a polyphony of inclusivity. At the center of MFPR is a data base made up of pre-recorded statements by people from all cultural contexts – encompassing nationalities, genders, and ages. By entering the Multi Faith Prayer Room, one can listen to their voices and become inspired by the multitudes of approaches how to face the 21st century. The ever-expanding installation consists of 120 voices from around the world talking about faith, rituals and future providing an intimate insight into the momentary state of the human mind in 2025.
Our Multi Faith Prayer Room installation (audio only) will be shown at the new V&A East Storehouse this week as part of V&A East Soundhouse - a three-day long transformation of the Storehouse into a living instrument.
Organised by the 17th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research in collaboration with UCL East and Yamaha.
Wednesday, 5 - Friday, 7 November 2025
Gallery 2 of V&A East Storehouse
10.00 - 18.00
Free entry
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Created by Daniel Brandt \\ content directors: Max Dax, Daniel Brandt \\ composition: Brandt Brauer Frick, Marina Herlop \\ vocals: Marina Herlop, Heidi Heidelberg \\ collage: Paul Frick, Daniel Brandt, Anna Friedberg \\ produced by STRRR, Robot Heart Foundation, Brandt Brauer Frick \\ Funded by Robot Heart Foundation
Multi Faith Prayer Room is a black box of wishes and hopes, a cross-disciplinary project that collects today’s utopian ideas and future desires from people and transforms them into a polyphony of inclusivity. At the center of MFPR is a data base made up of pre-recorded statements by people from all cultural contexts – encompassing nationalities, genders, and ages. By entering the Multi Faith Prayer Room, one can listen to their voices and become inspired by the multitudes of approaches how to face the 21st century. The ever-expanding installation consists of 120 voices from around the world talking about faith, rituals and future providing an intimate insight into the momentary state of the human mind in 2025.
4AD Maria Somerville Live in SF 5.23.25
Tix in Biolink @maria__somerville
Borne of her roots channeled through the mystical emerald wilderness of rugged West Ireland, Maria Somerville crafts a vast and vital vocalized presence rooted in raw feeling and mood-driven atmospheres. Fusing post-industrial pulse, hypnotic drones, and folk-etched melodies, her music evokes a thematic sense of longing, of connection through distance with transformed interwoven threads of gothically smattered motifs and melancholic tribulations.
To discover early a new voice rising through the same shadows once shaped by Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil, is a rare and timely concert opportunity. Maria asserts her newfound recognition as one of our era’s most promising nu-gazers.
Following the simpler cult wavelength of her 2019 LP debut All My People, Somerville now steps forward her legacy continuation with Luster, her landmark sophomore full-length premiering on the legendary 4AD label — home to past and present fellow sonic explorers like Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance and Clan of Xymox amongst others.
Think My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Mazzy Star, Julie Cruise, and Grouper - masterworks outside the 4AD canon, but whispered through a different storm of Maria’s own unique mythic reach into and beyond the dusky dream pop glass ceiling.
Sure, she’s inspired by the early 4AD and Cure catalogues, but Somerville’s slow-core flow is far more profound and personal than pure pastiche; integrating traces of Irish Folk, Fennesz-pilled ambience, and down-swung, echoed strums, sparse percussion and clandestine field recordings.
If you loved or need to newly absorb the quintessential ethereal 4AD canvas and character from its formative decades, then this Maria Somerville concert is for you.
Opening set by Leila Abdul-Rauf @leilaabdulrauf — a Bay Area dark ambient musician weaving trumpet, voice, and drone into somber, penetrating soundscapes.
