Stay seated. T-City organizes your life at home

Can you imagine a world without mobile phones? So kiss yourself goodbye, while the rest takes the next step to the brave new world of connectivity and relaxation possibilities. Stay seated and organize yourself from home. Deutsche Telekom announces T-City, a system technology which enables you to chat with your doc, order IDs, reserve parking lots and monitor your child at kindergarten. Does it make your life in the city more attractive? As a teaser we imagined what happens if somebody has to leave such a paradise. Our very first collaboration with cologne based agency brandrelation.

Director´s cut with music by Pluramon, »Hintergrund« by Mogwai engineered by Jason Famous at Apollo Recording, Glasgow.

Made In Germany: 1983-2007

For 25 years, Mike Meiré has been working in such different areas as editorial design, culture projects, brand coding and architecture. The exhibition, shown during the rheindesign festival 2007, reflects and represents a rich body of work crossing over arts, design and brand relations.

The Farm Project

What's happening to our kitchens? The Farm Project is the counter-part of contemporary slick frosted minimalist cooking places, an improvised hut feat. living and stuffed animals, open racks, flavours and smells. Designed by Mike Meiré for the Dornbracht EDGE Series, this installation was shown at the Salone di Mobile in Milano, the Skulptur Projekte Münster and at Miami Design. The clip was shot at Meiré and Meiré's factory during the opening event of the Passagen / Furniture Fair in Cologne, providing detailed information on the Farm.

Kevin Matweew circles around a trip

29th September 2006, 20:00: Dornbracht Culture Projects presents performance 2: The New York percussionist Dave Nuss, performing on drums. In parallel with the Berlin Art Forum in the Postfuhramt building - the former Post Office HQ in central Berlin. In Performance 2, Dave Nuss tests his own physical limits, as in his drum solo he consciously passes the point at which the mind controls the body. Trance-like ecstasy is his aim.

Photography with glycerol and glitter

Member of the Cologne experimental music scene Marcus Schmickler (piethopraxis) has released a growing number of critically acclaimed electroacoustic recordings of various levels of abstractness through Mille Plateaux (as Pluramon) and A-Musik label (as Wabi Sabi). Formally educated in composition he works in the electronic, instrumental, improvised fields of music as composer and producer. Marc Comes did his first and often released portrait of Schmickler in 2001. The shown selection starts with the portrait of  2001 (with glycerol) and defines the new images in Schmickler's studio as variations (with glitter) of the first one.

Jan Hoehe gives life to a beat-laden car

With his animations Jan Hoehe has developed a unique style of collage and assemblage. Cool Harbour was created as a visual for the Japan Tour of the legendary British techno band The Orb. Together with Designer Yvette Klein he animated a car journey through an industrial harbour featuring flat and silent people and a happy ending in sweet home's garage. By the way: has the lonely driver got kids waiting for him at the kitchen table?

Dornbracht Culture Projects

The Dornbracht Culture Projects series presents the first collection of Noises for Ritual Architecture produced by Carlo Peters. MEM, LOGIC and ELEMENTAL (vol. 1-3) reflect the relationship between space, material and movement through ritual architecture and invites people to view the bathing experience as a holistic process. The presentation takes place in a SoundSpa designed by Mike Meiré.

The Noises for Ritual Architecture are featured on QVEST DVD Magazine No 1.

Die Schnippenburg. Camping _ Church _ Capitol

300 B.C.: the "Schnippenburg", a small castle in Northern Germany, serves as a local, multifunctional center of the iron age – being a market, a church and a political meetingplace. The movie was shot for the first detailed exhibition of the archeological site at the museum of cultural history in Osnabrück. Here, historical reenactment goes the abstract way: the actors are dressed in contemporary clothes instead of fur and mace, while their actions are explained by sketching out analogies to the present.

 The new »Elemental Spa« by Dornbracht

Dornbracht creates surplus in the bathroom. Yesterday's washing becomes today's ritual cleansing, a genuine body-and-soul experience in your own SPA. An existential backlash with modern water sources (Sieger Design) placed in archaic architecture (Mike Meiré) made of rusty steel (Cor-Ten, known from artists such as Richard Serra), oxidizing copper and olive wood. Marc Comes staged the new product line "Elemental Spa" in vivid tableaux vivants. Pulsating water, soothed blood.

The sound design by Carlo Peters interleaves the ritual and scientific levels of the play.

The conceptual fashion film in full length

"Their label (BLESS) is about taking fashion and redefining what are the 'norms' or perhaps disposing of the 'norms' altogether. With each collection they do, there is a strong intent and cohesiveness even though one collection can vary wildly from the other - it could consist of functional objects, a piece of fashion art, reconstructed clothing - anything goes." style bubble

"Bless No.9 deals with the label hype: Bless is printed, stitched, painted on all their designs in any way. It was Prêt-á-Porter autumn 1999. We took the fashion and let its models present them at other designers´ shows like YSL, Watanabe, Balenciaga, Martin Margiela a.o. we were invited to. I filmed the interaction between the show and the Bless models in the audience, then edited the footage every night after the shows and Carlo worked on the sound mix to complete the own virtual show. The result was presented at the last day of the fashion week. An instant movie of the Bless collection and the fashion world at the Musèe de'Art Moderne, Paris." Marc Comes

Poetry sell out

Starring Jurczok 5001, Toni Caradonna and Robert Roccobelly, this series of loops and spoken word performances concentrates on the unique talent of the respective artist who presents his very own text with regard to the client's mobile telecommunication services. CHBP provided the cinematic stage to foreground local individuality and its language. Which is, of course, german, italian and french. Another collaboration with glamour engineering AG.

Yannick – A Portrait

Yannick has many friends, lots of women, knows how to skate and lives with his mother in a small health resort. Commercial training, cocktail bar, Sex while watching TV.

The portrait is shot in strict photographic style, neither actors nor the camera are moving. The narration flows neutrally, not judging in any direction. From Bad Salzuflen to our show stage: Yannick – bad boy or gentleman? A free piece made by our marvelous trainee Carina.

BMW Junior Campus

Inside the new BMW Welt in Munich, the BMW Junior Campus is designed to attract children from 7 to 13 to the world of mobility – and to the brand itself, of course. Either your dad parks you here or you have come with your school class. Conceived by simple GmbH , the place offers a combination of entertainment, play and the modeling of paper cars.

Besides the movie, a bunch of clips focussing on the singular consoles and exhibits was shot  to present the Junior Campus on an interactive DVD.

Unbreakable tyres in the new BMW X5

Before the obstacle is after the obstacle – even if the air is gone. Which makes her smile while he is having doubts about their journey: a small role reversal in a car that arrives anyway. The fragile psychodynamics is forced by Saint-Saën's „Le carnaval des animaux“.

Commercial for the Run Flat Technology, a standard feature in the new BMW X5.

Performance by Noritoshi Hirakawa

In the performance “Four two One” artist Noritoshi Hirakawa deals with a social taboo: the subconscious desires between father and daughter. Beneath the surface of daily communication the story steps into a subconscious level as a dialogue of existential impact. The inner conflict of the leading actress is dramatically staged by the appearance of her “spirit” embodied by a masked and naked female dancer. By filtering the sexual intercourse between the leading actress and her boyfriend with a camera, Hirakawa allows the audience to approach to the subject from a ‘safe’ distance. Gestures and facial expressions are accompanied with the improvisations of a female violinist. The psychological drama culminates into Shakespearian dimensions when the desire beyond the common sense of society bonds father and daughter to each other as a tragic, unconscious destiny. Their desperate trials to find an adequate quantity of their desire, clarifies the difficulty of human existence.

Always connected for sunrise

Malcolm McLaren, creator and manager of the punk icon »Sex Pistols«, takes us for a pleasant trip around Hollywood. To promote the mobile broadband business services of swiss telecommunication company sunrise, CHBP and glamour engineering AG developed a journey packed with impressions, illustrating the entanglement of mobility and connectivity. The shooting process was documentary-style, casually following McLaren's own dictum: "to sell something cool, you need to be cool".