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SCREENING – Artist Films on Sub- and Counterculture is a six-part short film series that brings together film and video works by internationally renowned artists with rarely screened underground films. Across six evenings in summer 2026, Kantine am Berghain presents short films that explore music, the body, and identity in the context of sub- and countercultures in various ways. Admission is free.



SCREENING
Artist films on subculture and counterculture

Kantine am Berghain
23 June, 1 July, 8 July, 30 July, 5 August and 12 August

Tobias Zielony

Maskirovka, 2018, 8`

Maskirovka turns its focus to the queer underground and techno scene in Kyiv after the 2013 revolution, while also reflecting the political instability and Russian interference in Ukraine. The title refers to strategies of deception (“maskirovka”) and to a reality in which truth and staging increasingly blur. Composed of 5,400 individual frames, the film combines images from clubs, the city, and war into a stroboscopic flicker, offering a perspective on the contradictory lived realities within an ongoing state of conflict.

Tobias Zielony (b. 1973 in Wuppertal, lives and works in Berlin) is a photographer who has been working for around 20 years with young people in marginalized suburban milieus. Zielony has had numerous institutional exhibitions; among others, he represented the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015.

Sebastian Weise

Tricky Disco, 2022, 24`

Tricky Disco traces various forms of spatial and cultural appropriation, initially following traces in the author's biography. The film draws parallels in the urban development of Berlin and Frankfurt. It unmasks the attempted appropriation of the Techno and House movement as a "German cultural asset" and depicts how efforts are being made to monetize it through hasty museumization.

Sebastian Weise (b. 1983 in Dresden, lives and works in Berlin) is a visual artist who primarily works with film and video. His work explores the relationship between space, body, and memory, as well as the tensions between documentary observation and subjective experience.

Rhea Storr


Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical, 2020, 10’

Afrofuturism is expressed in the Bahamas through Junkanoo, a carnival rooted in the resistance of enslaved people, who were granted only Christmas Day and Boxing Day off. The film follows the “Shell Saxon Superstars,” a group of 1,500 members, as they prepare for the parade. Costume production takes place in smaller “shacks,” where craftsmanship and dedication are key. The “Saxons” ultimately unite in a spectacular performance, presenting politically charged themes that assert national pride or depict other countries—competing for victory and bragging rights.

Rhea Storr (1991 in Leeds, lives and works in London) is a British artist and filmmaker. In her experimental 16mm and video works, she explores the representation of Black and mixed-race cultures as well as the political and aesthetic dimensions of masquerade, carnival, and space.

Andrew Norman Wilson

In the Air Tonight, 2020, 17’

In the Air Tonight, according to Phil Collins, is a song about divorce—but an enduring urban myth imagines a darker story. This film playfully reimagines that legend through dreamlike narration. Director Andrew Norman Wilson draws on a moment of uncanny synchronicity—hearing the song alongside a stranger on the highway—to invent a fictional “genesis” for the hit that launched Collins’s solo career.

Andrew Norman Wilson (b. 1983; lives and works in New York) is an American artist and director. His films have premiered at Sundance, the New York Film Festival, and Rotterdam. His work is included in collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty Museum, and the Centre Pompidou.