German Premiere
13.9.25, 4 pm
Screening at Babylon Berlin
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin (in English)
Free admission
Tickets here and at the door
Cyrill Lachauer & Mike Brodie
In Slack (2025, 60 min.), Cyrill Lachauer travels with American photographer Mike Brodie in freight trains across the United States in search of lost fathers, the boundaries of image-making, and an unattainable romance celebrated by pop culture but simultaneously rejected by society. The focus lays on the memory of Brodie’s late partner Mia Justice Smith alias Slack whose ashes have come to symbolize a generation scarred by the fentanyl crisis, shaped by post-punk, TikTok and an unrelenting desire for freedom.
Slack oscillates between artistic documentary and essay film, between feature and experimental film. It describes the life and travels of Mike Brodie and his friends: drifters, hobos and crust punks. They exist on the fringes of legality. They live the ultimate inversion of the much-vaunted American dream, the promise of social advancement accessible to all. Ancient heroes wander the abysses of the so-called “first world”.
German Premiere
Artist Talk
14.9.25, 5 pm
With Cyrill Lachauer and Mike Brodie at IBB Video Space, Berlinische Galerie (in English)
Free admission
Registration online
Abie Franklin & Daniel Hölzl
The installation BYCATCH by Berlin-based artists Abie Franklin and Daniel Hölzl investigates the at times indiscernible boundaries between the effects of human activity and natural phenomena. Intertwined processes such as pollution, shifting landmasses, and rising sea levels are juxtaposed with human-made strategies of defense that ultimately turn into (self-)destruction. The installation consists of inflatable tetrapods partially entangled in a safety net. They mimic mass-produced breakwaters developed in the 1950s to protect coastlines against erosion. Yet placing these concrete structures has choked countless ecosystems worldwide. The term “bycatch” is borrowed from the fishing industry, where it refers to marine life unintentionally caught in nets. It shows the dilemma of trying to catch a quick solution, only to find it leads to other problems down the line.
As part of Hallen 06 Kunstfestival (6.9. – 14.9.25), organised by Wilhelmstudios
