Most people recommend to visit Berlin in summer for obvious reasons – everyone is happy, out on the street, biking the city, celebrating life at open airs, just enjoying those special never ending summer nights. But this is only one side of the year and Berlin, because starting in November the days become darker and the mood of the city changes. Berlin becomes more serious and somehow bizarrely dark and beautiful.
It’s still attracting visitors though and they get to see the deep, hopeful and patient side of the city. It’s like looking at Berlin through a filter, with winter eyes. It has a completely different beauty that is perfectly captured in the following video made by the Czech Videographer crew Kaco and accompanied by the melancholic song “Damage Done” of Moderat. See Berlin through Winter’s eyes after the jump…
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by Kate | Videos
The sun is burning down, there’s no clouds in sight and if you’re lucky you spend the day near the lake, in the park or at the pool. It usually seems a great idea to end a lazy summer’s day with a movie, but no-one really wants to go to a cinema venue with four walls and a roof. Open Air Cinemas are clearly the better option. Ideally a cinema underneath the stars and in the worst-case a cinema with an interruption due to rain, but hey: Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Around the corner from my house there’s Freiluftkino Kreuzberg. In the courtyard of Kunstquartier Bethanien they set up a massive screen, a decent projector and hundreds of deckchairs. Every night one film from their really great selection is shown, beginning at dusk. It’s a great chance to catch those films of the past few months on the big screen again.
So for all you Open Air cineasts out there: a couple of recommendations for the next weeks.
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by Lia | Movies
