After winning the audience award at Unerhört Music Film Festival Hamburg the film 'Mona Mur in Conversation' wins in the same category at the Berlin Soundwatch Music Film Festival. Read below the official statement:   Welcome 2025. And thank you to those who contributed to our work in 2024. Starting the year by congratulating the audience award winners which you'll see more of this year.   Winners (ex aequo): KNEECAP by Rich Peppiatt (opens in Germany on January 23) MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION by Dietmar Post (next screenings tba)   Runners-up: PEACHES GOES BANANAS by Marie Losier ROZSVIT SVETLO, AT JE VIDET (Turn the Light On So We Can See) by Radim Špaček, Václav Kučera (+)   It was a pleasure to screen those and all other festival entries.     Find more info about the film 'Mona Mur in Conversation' here:   Official Movie Site Mona Mur releases on play loud! Mona Mur Site IMDb Site Mona Mur Music on streaming platforms  

  In den vergangenen Jahren haben wir viele, viele Popstars auf Kinoleinwänden gesehen. Dort, aber auch in den Mediatheken der Streaming-Anbieter Céline Dion, Billie Eilish, Robbie Williams oder auch Taylor Swift oder Beyoncé mit Konzertfilmen. Aber es geht ja auch eine Nummer kleiner und wenn ich mir die Bemerkung erlauben darf, auch mit etwas mehr Herzblut. Dokus, die zeigen, wie Arbeit und Leben von Musikern und Musikerinnen aussehen, die nicht immer im Rampenlicht stehen. Die gibt es zu sehen beim Unerhört-Filmfestival in Hamburg, genauso wie Filme, die Musikstile und Musikkulturen dokumentieren. Programmdirektor des Unerhört-Festivals ist Stefan Pethke. Vor der Sendung haben wir mit ihm gesprochen. Christoph Reimann (Corso - Kunst und Pop, DLF):                                       ...

  Jan Müller sagt in seinem Podcast Reflektor: Und jetzt komme ich zu einer weiteren Künstlerin: Bereits im Jahr 2022 erschien beim Berliner Label play loud! MONA MUR THE ORIGINAL BAND (1984-1986). Bis ins Jahr 2022 waren diese Aufnahmen unveröffentlicht. Das ist wirklich tragisch, denn es sind mehr als nur Zeitdokumente. Es sind tolle New Wave Songs. Nicht nur Mona Murs Version von Brecht und Weills Surabaya Johnny ist extrem hörenswert, sondern das ganze Album ist echt super. The Original Band besteht aus Mitgliedern der Einstürzenden Neubauten und deren Umfeld. Und ich habe das Ganze erst ein bisschen spät entdeckt, aber ich denke, besser spät als nie. play loud! hat auch noch andere Alben von Mona Mur veröffentlicht, die lohnen sich auch in jedem Falle, aber dies hier ist meine Empfehlung für Euch für den Einstieg. Und warum wurde das bis zum Jahr 2022 nicht veröffentlicht? Das alles erfahrt ihr in dem neuen super Film ‘Mona Mur in Conversation’. Ich durfte ihn schon sehen. Das...

  Get the double colored vinyl LP here: Double Vinyl LP   Streaming here: Streaming     Michael Vincent Waller is an influential American composer of contemporary music based in New York City. Moments Remixes feat. Moor Mother, Jlin, DJ Marcelle, XiuXiu, Yu Su, Fennesz, Loraine James, Prefuse 73, Lex Luger, Jefrey Cantu, Lafawndah, Carmen Villian, Levon Vincent, Tom VR & Ka Baird. Limited to 300 copies. Teal colored vinyl. Praise for Michael Vincent Waller:

   Every note and gesture seems to be deeply felt and philosophically weighted before a hand touches a piano key or lifts a mallet…gorgeous…evocative…nothing less than cathartic. 
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Natalie Gravenor (Soundwatch Film Festival) and Dietmar Post (Filmmaker) photo © Peter Zach ENGLISH Elfi Mikesch (photographer, filmmaker and camerawoman) attended the Berlin premiere of ‘Mona Mur in Conversation’ at Soundwatch Film Festival on 30.11.2024 in the Galilee church. After the film showing and live performance, she wrote the following review: The film ‘Mona Mur in Conversation‘ shows Mona Mur as an impressive musician and artist with a thoughtful, humorous character. It reveals how the path of steadfastness is not easy. The concept for the film is perfectly realised. A green chair against a red background and a screen. Pure simplicity, no distractions, and it’s mesmerizing: Mona Mur and her story. Her life and work. The highs and the lows. The beauty. Music runs through her in every fibre, breath, rhythm, and in her voice. Her body and movements. Accented by her smile and sensuality. She’s magnetic. The live concert in the Galilee church was wonderful. A pianist at the gra...

New play loud! documentary film MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION wins Audience Award at Unerhört Music Film Festival in Hamburg                                                                                                       GERMAN  Filmemacherin Monika Treut sagt: Der Film ist so spannend, weil er vielschichtig ist: es geht um Mona Mur als unerschrockene Frau im männlich geprägten Musikbusiness, er ist gleichzeitig ein Galoppritt durch die jüngere Geschichte der Popmusik und er zeigt Mona Murs viele Gesichter, wie sie unangepasst und kreativ ihren eigenen Stil immer wieder weiterentwickelt. (Monika Treut, Filmemacherin) Die Preisverleiher des UNERHÖR...

            Xavier Valiño "Los 100 mejores documentales del rock" Xavier Valiño presenta una selección imprescindible con los 100 mejores documentales del rock: de los orígenes a la actualidad, de la gran pantalla a las domésticas. Un libro ineludible para saber qué hay que ver de un género cuya producción ha crecido exponencialmente en los últimos años. El periodista español Xavier Valiño ha elegido el documental "Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback" entre los mejores documentales del rock de todos los tiempos.    Compra el libro aquí/Buy the book here   Se puede ver el documental o comprar el DVD (con mucho material extra) en la página oficial de los cineastas Lucía Palacios y Dietmar Post: DVD o streaming

  Christian Cloos (commissioning editor for ZDF) writes: I really liked the film. Donna as a phone ghost, out of necessity, worked well, almost like it was an intentional way of raising questions of identity. Her death must have been a horror for you. The film offers great archive material and good interviewees (the sister was fantastic, as were all the others). It is very carefully researched, tightly narrated, intelligent and neatly edited – it’s a joy. It’s a continually surprising journey, both in its content and form, through the seventies and eighties. The use of the photos is brilliant. They become like exhibits about pop history, and when you introduce other material, we accept the poor technical quality as texture. It’s great how respectful you were, for example in how you introduced all the musicians involved in the single cover. It would be great if this were the start of an ongoing collaboration between you and Arte on more films about music and culture and you could ma...

  German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel (Christian Schröder) writes:: Fame is greedy. It devours people, skin and all. The documentary Donna Summer – Hot Stuff opens with scenes from a chat show in the 1980s. The host asks what the singer thinks of the cliches about her. ‘Disco diva?’ She just giggles: ‘Tss’. ‘Queen of sex?’ She sighs: ‘Urgh.’ Donna Summer rose to fame in the mid 1970s with her hits ‘Love To Love You Baby’ and ‘I Feel Love’, which feature her softly sung verses and sensual vocalizing over producer Giorgio Moroder’s futuristic Moog synthesizer beats. Fame followed her for the rest of her life. One critic from Time magazine reckoned that Summer simulated 22 orgasms on ‘Love To Love You’, while the record cover showed her in a nightdress. “I felt like a product,” said Summer later. “Like a bottle that someone had stuck a label on.” She did of course contribute to the product. One night, when the line ‘I love to love you’ came to her, she called Moroder. Directors Lucia Pa...

  An interview with Lucía Palacios and Dietmar Post (by Alex Alvarez Taylor for Jacobin ) One of the three hundred settlements founded by Franco's regime, the village of Llanos del Caudillo is still today named in homage to the dictator. Villagers' nostalgia for his regime reflects Spain's failure to reckon with its past — and the ongoing struggle to gain recognition for fascism's victims. The village of Llanos del Caudillo, in Spain’s Castilla La Mancha region, is one of three hundred “colonies,” or settlements, christened by the Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in the decades after the Civil War. Its historic link to his regime is still today visible in its name: Llanos — “plains” — del Caudillo — “of the leader.” Established in the 1950s by the agriculture ministry’s National Colonization Institute, the settlements reflected the Franco regime’s disastrous policy of economic “self-sufficiency,” beginning with the drive to repopulate or “recolonize” devastated rural ...

  “Tagespiegel” (diario alemán): La fama es voraz. Engulle a sus víctimas en cuerpo y alma. El documental "Donna Summer - Hot Stuff" comienza con escenas de un programa de entrevistas de los años 80. El presentador quiere saber qué piensa la cantante de los estereotipos que circulan sobre ella. ¿Diva de la música disco? ¿Reina del sexo? Ella se limita a sonreír con un ligero sarcasmo. Donna Summer saltó a la fama a mediados de los años setenta con sus éxitos "Love To Love You Baby" y "I Feel Love", en los que, acompañada del sonido futurista de los sintetizadores Moog del productor Giorgio Moroder, cantaba versos jadeantes y gemidos lujuriosos. La etiqueta “reina sexy del disco” le acompañó hasta su muerte. Un crítico de la revista Time contó 22 orgasmos en "Love To Love You". En la portada del álbum Donna aparecía vistiendo un minúsculo camisón. "Me sentía como un producto", confiesa Summer a los autores de la película. "Como una ...