Big Screen Brutals exists to collect and celebrate brutal films and videos from all times and places. Expect noisy, glitchy, psychedelic, offensive, violent, hilarious, and quite beautiful combinations sound and vision. Big Screen Brutals also hosts irregular events which are more akin to an audio-visual-punk-rock-concert than the usual passive film screening, and likewise, audiences are encouraged to actively raise their glasses and their voices and join in on the projected action.
4 July 2020 – Big Screen Brutals – Naples, Italy
4 July 2020 Big Screen Brutals in Naples, Italy. Independent Film Show 20th Edition Big Screen Brutals by Botborg is a celebration of six ‘brutal’ videos from current artists using a maximalist aesthetic in video art, digital art, electronic music, and noise. Expect glitchy, psychedelic, violent, and quite beautiful combinations sound and vision. These are electro-shamanic short circuits that lead to a new state of surreality: in Der Kleine Kreis’ Clairvoyant the reduced quasi-geometric…
30 September 2018 – Big Screen Brutals – Istanbul, Turkey
A perfect weekend for bananafish! Sonunda haftasonu zamanı ve sarı takımlarınızı giyinme zamanı! Bütün haftasonu, Berlin ve İstanbul’daki çağdaş serigrafi dünyasının etrafında kurgulanan ve çoğu zaman yanlış anlaşılan, sürekli yenilenmekte olan bu teknik üzerine alternatif bakış açısı sunan bir serginin etrafında yüzeceksiniz. Solungaçlarınızı…
15 April 2016 – Big Screen Brutals – Bangface Weekender – Southport, UK
This week we visit the glow-stick-glittered shores of North West England for the Bangface Weekender. We’ll be joining the raved-out pranksters from Chin Stroke Records who are co-presenting the festival TV programming with Network Awesome. What excellent company! Featuring the following BSB programs: Kultur=Kaputt Jamming culture until it’s broken. Our selection…
6 December 2015 – Big Screen Brutals – 6 December 2015 @ Spektrum – The Crazy Cult of the New World Church of Creepy Crackpots
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/530018787167663/ Sunday 6. December 2015 Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00 “Spektrum” Address: Bürknerstraße 12, 12047 Berlin-Neukölln Map: https://goo.gl/maps/pXHDV Transports: U8 Schönleinstraße The Crazy Cult of the New World Church of Creepy Crackpots This edition of BSB is all about religion. And conspiracy theories. Weird ones. Caught…
30 August 2015 – Big Screen Brutals – 30 August 2015 @ Spektrum – Glitch Is Fucked
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1630319683892960/ Sunday 30. August 2015 Doors: 19:00 / Start time: 20:00 Free entrance “Spektrum” Address: Bürknerstraße 12, 12047 Berlin-Neukölln Map: https://goo.gl/maps/pXHDV Transports: U8 Schönleinstraße The first edition of BSB at Spektrum will feature two different sets of connected short films: 1. “Glitch Is Fucked” (see below for playlist) … or…
5 September 2014 – Big Screen Brutals – 5 September 2014 @ Boys Club – The Superusers, Kris Limbach, VJ Meat, Crocanti
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/272366006279884/ An evening of audio-visual performance encompassing everything from multi-computer 3D explosions to improvisations with dead media. Friday 5. September 2014 Doors: 20:00 Concerts: 20:30 “Boys Club” Address: Gneisenaustraße 52, 10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg Map: https://goo.gl/maps/QTi8A Transports: U7 Südstern The Superusers – real-time…
11 June 2014 – Big Screen Brutals – Movie Music Magick – Berlin, Germany
Screening program throughout June 2014 @ “Sameheads” – Richardstraße 10, 12043 Berlin, Germany. FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1444408762482669/ All three of these films are musicals. Two of them feature singing Satans, the other has R Kelly. *Wednesday 11th June * The Apple (1980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uix3tbov65o Released in 1980 and set in the…
25 April 2014 – Big Screen Brutals – 25 April 2014 @ Liebig12 – ASTEPBACK, BOTBORG
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1410327809235454/ ASTEPBACK– expanded cinema/dance – IT BOTBORG– audio-visual feedback – AU Friday 25. April 2014 Doors: 19:30 Concerts: 20:00 “Liebig12” Address: Liebigstrasse 12, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain Map: https://goo.gl/maps/GWbM7 Transports: U5 + M21 + M10 > Frankfurter Tor Entry 5 euro. ASTEPBACK-…
7 September 2012 – Big Screen Brutals – 7 September 2012 @ Pony Royal – VJ Meat, Sonic Outlaws, Kultur=Kaputt, Youtube Party w/ Santisima Virgen Maria
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/343689262379775/ BIG SCREEN BRUTALS Freitag 7. September 2012 20-00 Uhr Pony Royal Siegfriedstraße 12 12051 Berlin-Neukölln *zwischen S+U Hermannstraße und S+U Neukölln. 3-5 Euro für die Künstlern. Programm: 20-21 – Sonic Outlaws (Regie: Craig Baldwin, USA, 1995) 21-22 – Kultur=Kaputt (BSB Kurzfilme Selektion) 22-23 – VJ Meat (Live, audio-visual mashcore) 23-00 -…