[only german] Solarsysteme, die zweite: das Bildarchiv des Photovoltaik-Systemhauses Ecostream wird um vier Installationen erweitert. Nach der ersten Europatournee in 2008 liegt der Fokus nun noch stärker auf den architektonischen und inhaltlichen Kontexten. Dies führt uns zu modernen Neubauten in Brügge und Lyon, zu einem energie-autarken Milchbauernhof bei Aachen und zu jahrhundertealten...

[only german] Die Köpfe hinter dem neuen Produkt von Dornbracht kommen zu Wort. Das begleitende Marketingvideos für Presse und Vertrieb keine drögen B-to-B Anhängsel sein müssen, zeigt CHBP mit dieser Arbeit.

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...

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...

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".

He loves champagne, green and big bottles. Marc Newson is one of the most accomplished and influential designers of his generation. For Dom Pérignon he designed an ice bucket for the magnum bottle. The interview reflects his way of creating things and his favour for champagne. Only his objects are coloured in the black and white aesthetics of the film.

...about love that loosens itself in the darkness of a deserted club. Abstractions of light and fog. This ambient film accompanies the product introduction of the new fitting of Dornbracht: LULU

Another movie for Dornbracht and the Balance Modules. Reduced colors, steam, light and jets of water. Wittingly camera experiments combined with photographic 16:9 compositions. Inside and interior. In the bath and in the jungle.

CHBP shot over 100 images in NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia) for the Vertical Trailer and Station ID´s of the WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk). We have selected our favourites in a one minute movie with the music of piethopraxis.

"I love a lot the beauty Tanja gives to the film. And her beauty is linked to this feeling of disappearance, the absence of a person, who left long time ago, or will leave in future, just because of time." Marc Comes staged...

»Jivan« narrates the passion of 13-year-old Jivan. Water as violence, water as mechanics; a futurist bathtub as an amniotic sac, the intensities of light. Jivan opens up his eyes. He folds his felt and steps into the open. "When Mike Meiré came up...

VIVA Plus was the sister of the music television VIVA. In 2002 CHBP produced a line of openers for hot themes in sport, technics, celebrities and others. This short infotainment feature named short formats and the paramount directive in the use of asthetics was: Perceptual congruence. See the complete short format compilation.

1999 können sie einen gut aussehenden jungen Ingenieur mit bohèmehafter Frisur in einem verschlafenen Nest am Bodensee erleben. Er jongliert mit Steinen, frühstückt und sinniert im Schneidersitz, blickt durch Fenster und Objektive, während die Welt der Turbinen und Luftfahrtschiffe seinen Horizont bebildert. Eine Werbung um Nachwuchskräfte im Auftrag der Stadtentwicklung und der ansässigen Industrie in Friedrichshafen. Die Agentur nannte die optional Überzeugten »Neudenker«. Unser Neudenker im Film, Karsten Klimmek, kam 1997 mit 24 zu CHBP. Grund genug, zu seinem Zehnjährigen dieses Denkmal als Darsteller auszugraben. Wegweisend altbekannt auch die moderne Mehrfachberufung: Administrativ hinter und verbraten vor der Kamera.

To enter the new millenium, swedish brand Absolut Vodka chose Rosemarie Trockel as "Absolut Artist" - among her predecessors are people like Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst. There was a big party in Berlin with a live performance by Justus Köhnke, a homage to Hildegard Knef: Spirals Of Memory...

Dornbracht creates bathroom appliances. Mike Meiré creates advertising. CHBP creates films. Rosemarie Trockel creates art and the title completes the circle. Have fun.

»In her ten-minute short film the young director Carina Neubohn gives insight into the complicated relationship between a young women with multiple sclerosis and her friend and roommate. Carina Neubohn stays very close to the protagonists but creates space for them and for the viewer. She looks at them very precisely and develops a complex...

The First German Television Program ARD starts the day with the Morgenmagazin (morning magazine). The Morgenmagazin is an infotainment classic featuring news, ideas, trends, entertainment and reaches an audience of 3 million people from 5:30 to 9 A.M. daily. In cooperation with the design department of the WDR CHBP conceived and produced the new redesign, a revision of the 2005 On Air Design which was also done by CHBP.

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.

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.

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.

Supermodel Eva Herzigova and Karl Lagerfeld did the campaign for the 1996 Dom Pérignon Rosé. The launch of the Rosé was settled in a fancy Villa on Sunset Boulevard. The destillation of the evening combines the catwalk of the stars with the live concert of folk-rocker Devendra Banhart and band, enjoying their champagne.

CHBP produced its first High Definition trailer for the WDR in 2004. Central place of the shooting was the »Vierscheibenhaus«, one of the main WDR buildings in Cologne. According to the different formats of Westart, there are two versions of the trailer. Passing people recognizing reflections of "cultural scenes", which are appearing in the glass facade...

The »Aktuelle Stunde« is the mother ship in the family of the regional NRW formats. The trailer focuses on people in the panorama of NRW.

With its "short film report" concept, »Hier und Heute« is one of the most traditional features of the German TV (first broadcasted in 1957). In a key scene, a former opener of the 70´s featured an aerial shot of Cologne and its cathedral. This childhood experience of Marc Comes is being staged again, in combination with the waterlines of NRW.

The video »Rosemarie« is something of a homage to the artist Rosemarie Trockel and circles around stamping, distance and decisions, love and work, serial production and fermentation. "Der Film »Rosemarie« ist eine Liebeserklärung an jene verschwenderische »Ver-Wendung« (Pierre Klossowski) von Energie, die die Filmkunst sein könnte, wenn sie sich, in Form von Überschreitungen der Information, des Wissens und der symbolischen Tauschwerte, als eine Ereignis-Maschine erfinden könnte" (Wilfried Dickhoff). Marc Comes (Writer/Director) received the »Prix Nicolas Feuillatte pour l´Art Contemporain 2004« for »Rosemarie«. Music by Carlo Peters.

A combination of various historic female roles on stage: Manu is mother courage (with her two sons). Further you see Jackie Kennedy, Jeanne d´Arc and the head of Brigitte Bardot, doubled.

The designer Manu Burghart is one of Rosemarie Trockel´s favourite subjects. Her first film in the series »Manu´s Spleen« is set in a graveyard. Manu needs a nap.

Artist Video by acclaimed international artist Carsten Höller, who curated a programme of narcotic related artists film and video for Lux Gallery, London.

"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...

Ecostream is a system provider of solar energy and is part of the dutch Econcern Group. Inititalising a visual archive, CHBP transfered the claim "A Sustainable energy Supply For Everyone" to their media environment by providing material which may be used in a variety of contexts, such as commercial, corporate movie, industrial film, trade fair stands or presentations. Last summer, Robin Baum travelled...

The Dornbracht Culture Projects presents the first collection of Noises for Ritual Architecture produced by Carlo Peters. The Soundscapes reflect the relationship between space, material and movement through a ritual architecture designed by Mike Meiré. Noises for Ritual Architecture were published as 3-CD series and presented in Cologne, Milan, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf.

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.

In the performance "Vier Zwei Eins" the artist also 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...

New York the 2nd of june: Dom Pérignon launches the 98 vintage and introduces the new advertizing campaign by Karl Lagerfeld. Everybody could participate in the event - on the internet at sunrise. CHBP realized the docu-clip within eight hours.

CHBP has developed a gentle, light and impressionistic visual realm for the television program featuring the »orange«. Everyday moments of the morning hours were composed as atmospheric images using the new CI colors of the Morgenmagazin. Our Director's Cut combines the various openers related to different topics of the three hour program.

»Capricorn« is a company specializing in vintage racing cars and proto- types. They opened a new test center located next to the Formula One racetrack Nürburgring. Nordschleife, from dawn till dusk...

Maria was born in Greifswald, Eastern Germany. She studies African Studies and works at the Christmas market in front of the Cologne Cathedral for the third time. Her name is justifiably linked to bitterness, she mentioned in our interview.

»Lokalzeit« focuses on the regional aspects of NRW. There are nine different openers and closers for nine different regions of NRW. Here is one example »Lokalzeit Ruhr«.

After the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 and the decision of the goverment to move the capital from pittoresque Bonn to the ”poor but sexy city" Berlin, the former bed of chancellors Schmidt and Kohl in the »Kanzlerbungalow« remained empty. The history laden spot was...

Manu assists Udo Kier while he is holding a speech against the demolition of the Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle in Cologne. More information about the Loch e.V. on www.das-loch.net.

What do friends mean to you? A ready-made advert that suits a multitude of communication products. Do you want to sell anything? If so, just buy it.

How do you visualize scent in a natural and cultural context? Three short animated films that merge the art of photography and illustration. Produced for the "Expo 2000" in Hannover.

Need a Car? In this cinema spot a young couple are having sex in an empty parking lot, since they have no car. An advert for the classified car-ads in a daily newspaper.

"I was nearly as much interested in the thick white lines and crosses on the asphalt as I wanted to make the spot the portrait of the girl" (Marc Comes). The commercial won the Eagle Award (Television) in Mexico.