Experimental Film Night & Live Improvised Soundtrack
Join us for an evening of surreal, dystopian, experimental slow-cinema by directors Gamid Ibadullayev and Talissa Mehringer.
A selection of Talissa‘s short films and works by Gamid, including his feature ‚Orange Frames‘ with live improvised music, awaits!
WHEN: June 8th, 2026
Starting at 19:00
LOCATION: At the Kiezraum on the Dragonerareal
(Behind the Finanzamt)
Mehringdamm 10963, Berlin - Kreuzberg
FREE SCREENING but donations are very welcome :)
Drinks will also be available on a donation-basis
SUPPORTED BY: Holger and the Rathausblock
ABOUT THE FILMS AND DIRECTORS:
"Orange Frames" with live music improvisation
Orange Frames unfolds in an undefined future after a nuclear cataclysm. A woman (Małgorzata Kurek) has spent years trapped in the solitude of a bunker, unable to leave due to lingering radiation. Her world is built from fragments and echoes of what once existed. One day, she leaves her shelter and begins an unexpected journey. On the surface, she encounters inexplicable phenomena and meets a mysterious stranger (Paweł Mandziewski).This experimental work returns to the essence of silent cinema, blending visual storytelling with atmospheric soundscapes. Through its poetic, symbolic language and contemplative pace rooted in the tradition of slow cinema, Orange Frames invites viewers into a multifaceted, hypnotic world. Instead of offering a fixed narrative, it creates space for open experience and interpretation.
In the live-screening format, the film is accompanied by live improvised music, combining a contemporary mix of electronic and instrumental sound with traditional Azerbaijani influences.
Performing Musicians:
Gamid Ibadullayev - clarinet, flute
Talissa Mehringer - electronic soundscapes
About the Director:
Gamid Ibadullayev, a visual artist and filmmaker of Azerbaijani origin, graduate of the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts in Baku and the Film and Television Academy in Warsaw. He has lived and worked in Poland since 2005. His works have been exhibited in Polish, German, Azerbaijani, and Turkish art galleries. In his work, he combines painting, photography, sculpture, video art, and music. In 2016 he founded the Audiovisual Experiments Studio, a group of artists working on new forms of photographic and audiovisual expression. In 2023 he debuted with his first full-length film titled "A Soul of Nowhere ", a Polish-Azerbaijani psychological drama as a director and music author.
Trailer: (465) ORANGE FRAMES - Official Trailer | Gamid Ibadullayev - YouTubeTitle: Orange Frames
Year: 2025
Genre: Experimental Film
Running Time: 50 minutes (around 55 minutes with live performance)
Screenplay, Direction, Production: Gamid Ibadullayev
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Selection of Surreal Short Films
Talissa Mehringer‘s films explore darker narratives of subconscious, dream-like worlds. Non-dialogue-driven and accompanied by original music compositions featuring field recordings, industrial elements, and layered textures, her fever-dream fairy tales come to life on screen. The viewer is transported into these otherworldly environments through her use of heavily stylized art-direction, hand-made sets + props and stop motion animated sequences. The protagonists are themselves often lost souls in these worlds, representing melancholia, solitude and yearning for things lost or desired. The music is always of equal importance and takes on a character of its own as it guides the characters emotionally.
About the Director:
Talissa Mehringer studied film + media arts in NYC where she lived and worked for 8 years. She learned to be resourceful and used found objects from the streets of Brooklyn to make surreal stop-motion animations, buillding sets from discarded materials in her windowless basement apartment. Her experiences in the Big Apple hugely informed her unique visual style and DIY approach to filmmaking.
Born into a family of social anthropologists, she gained early insight into her parents’ fieldwork and projects. At six, she visited the Canela tribe in the Brazilian Amazon basin with them, and a year later moved to Tanzania, where she witnessed and took part in Maasai ceremonies. These formative experiences sparked her interest in exploring and documenting the world, and played a key role in shaping her passion for filmmaking. She has worked on all-encompassing installations in Minneapolis and Berlin, painted murals at festivals in Tilburg, Bristol, and Würzburg, and exhibited and screened internationally across Europe and the US.
www.talissamehringer.com
Selection of Short films
Year: 2011-2026
Genre: Experimental Film
Running Time: c.a 45minutes
Direction, Editing, Sound/Music: Talissa Mehringer
A selection of Talissa‘s short films and works by Gamid, including his feature ‚Orange Frames‘ with live improvised music, awaits!
WHEN: June 8th, 2026
Starting at 19:00
LOCATION: At the Kiezraum on the Dragonerareal
(Behind the Finanzamt)
Mehringdamm 10963, Berlin - Kreuzberg
FREE SCREENING but donations are very welcome :)
Drinks will also be available on a donation-basis
SUPPORTED BY: Holger and the Rathausblock
ABOUT THE FILMS AND DIRECTORS:
"Orange Frames" with live music improvisation
Orange Frames unfolds in an undefined future after a nuclear cataclysm. A woman (Małgorzata Kurek) has spent years trapped in the solitude of a bunker, unable to leave due to lingering radiation. Her world is built from fragments and echoes of what once existed. One day, she leaves her shelter and begins an unexpected journey. On the surface, she encounters inexplicable phenomena and meets a mysterious stranger (Paweł Mandziewski).This experimental work returns to the essence of silent cinema, blending visual storytelling with atmospheric soundscapes. Through its poetic, symbolic language and contemplative pace rooted in the tradition of slow cinema, Orange Frames invites viewers into a multifaceted, hypnotic world. Instead of offering a fixed narrative, it creates space for open experience and interpretation.
In the live-screening format, the film is accompanied by live improvised music, combining a contemporary mix of electronic and instrumental sound with traditional Azerbaijani influences.
Performing Musicians:
Gamid Ibadullayev - clarinet, flute
Talissa Mehringer - electronic soundscapes
About the Director:
Gamid Ibadullayev, a visual artist and filmmaker of Azerbaijani origin, graduate of the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts in Baku and the Film and Television Academy in Warsaw. He has lived and worked in Poland since 2005. His works have been exhibited in Polish, German, Azerbaijani, and Turkish art galleries. In his work, he combines painting, photography, sculpture, video art, and music. In 2016 he founded the Audiovisual Experiments Studio, a group of artists working on new forms of photographic and audiovisual expression. In 2023 he debuted with his first full-length film titled "A Soul of Nowhere ", a Polish-Azerbaijani psychological drama as a director and music author.
Trailer: (465) ORANGE FRAMES - Official Trailer | Gamid Ibadullayev - YouTubeTitle: Orange Frames
Year: 2025
Genre: Experimental Film
Running Time: 50 minutes (around 55 minutes with live performance)
Screenplay, Direction, Production: Gamid Ibadullayev
--
Selection of Surreal Short Films
Talissa Mehringer‘s films explore darker narratives of subconscious, dream-like worlds. Non-dialogue-driven and accompanied by original music compositions featuring field recordings, industrial elements, and layered textures, her fever-dream fairy tales come to life on screen. The viewer is transported into these otherworldly environments through her use of heavily stylized art-direction, hand-made sets + props and stop motion animated sequences. The protagonists are themselves often lost souls in these worlds, representing melancholia, solitude and yearning for things lost or desired. The music is always of equal importance and takes on a character of its own as it guides the characters emotionally.
About the Director:
Talissa Mehringer studied film + media arts in NYC where she lived and worked for 8 years. She learned to be resourceful and used found objects from the streets of Brooklyn to make surreal stop-motion animations, buillding sets from discarded materials in her windowless basement apartment. Her experiences in the Big Apple hugely informed her unique visual style and DIY approach to filmmaking.
Born into a family of social anthropologists, she gained early insight into her parents’ fieldwork and projects. At six, she visited the Canela tribe in the Brazilian Amazon basin with them, and a year later moved to Tanzania, where she witnessed and took part in Maasai ceremonies. These formative experiences sparked her interest in exploring and documenting the world, and played a key role in shaping her passion for filmmaking. She has worked on all-encompassing installations in Minneapolis and Berlin, painted murals at festivals in Tilburg, Bristol, and Würzburg, and exhibited and screened internationally across Europe and the US.
www.talissamehringer.com
Selection of Short films
Year: 2011-2026
Genre: Experimental Film
Running Time: c.a 45minutes
Direction, Editing, Sound/Music: Talissa Mehringer
von: TM
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