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Follows the life of iconic singer Donna Summer.

The monks were 5 American GIs in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent industrial, kraut rock, heavy metal, punk and techno music.

The film explores the life and career of the Hamburg-born musician, whose creative work began in the West German post-punk scene of the 1980s.

Donna Summer dominated the worldwide pop charts in the 70s with such dance floor classics as Love to Love You, I Feel Love, Last Dance, Hot Stuff, Bad Girls and She Works Hard for the Money. Filmmakers Post and Palacios (Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback) take on Summer's legacy focusing on her early career in Germany. The film features the last interview Summer did before her death in 2012.

In 2010, an Argentinean judge launched an attempt to prosecute crimes committed during the Franco dictatorship. Will the so-called Argentinean trials become the Spanish Nuremberg?

Filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios filmed the show especially for the"play loud (live) music series" on October 22nd, 2011 at HBC in Berlin (Germany). Camera performed three songs.

A film about the interplay between pop culture and extreme right ideology, which reflects the development of nationalist music since the late 1970s in Germany.

This rare film documents Anima-Sound (duo Limpe and Paul Fuchs) as they caravan across Europe in a homemade trailer pulled by a tractor, intermittently setting up outdoor performances for (often bewildered) bystanders.

Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure in the anti-globalization movement. His work combines the forces of social and political change with the means of theater arts to counteract our media culture. His artistic and political work is influenced by various concepts of "street theater." His disruptions or "shopping interventions" in public spaces are in the tradition of the Living Theater, José Bové, Lenny Bruce, The Yippies. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones within the island of Manhattan such as Starbucks, Disney and the New York University construction site at the Edgar Allan Poe House.

Franco's Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past.

"Harsh theatrical monologue by a desperate man. Ray is a crack addict who has not scored for too long. Withdrawal symptoms cloud his paranoid mind. He sharpens his knife to take it out on his girlfriend who fled with his pipe and his crack. Sometimes his cruel and violent sexual fantasies are visualized, but in general the insane verbal ravings of the goaded Ray predominate."

A lonely man on the brink of emotional desolation talks to his Oatmeal. His need for friendship compels the man to a bizarre act.

This is the only live gig ever filmed with Manchester post-punk band Gods Gift. In heavy rotation at the BBC in the early 80s. Mark E. Smith was a fan too.

When the Teichmann Brothers are at the decks or playing live they ride high with the crowd, 2 guys on a natural high, jumping, raving, always wearing that distinctive Teichmann smile, a euphoria reflected in the music and a smile you can't help returning. The Teichmann sets - ping-pong sets with the two brothers playing each other the ball, consistently unpredictable and focused. Dramatically mixing genres from minimal to acid, to chicago, techno, rock and house as one. Originally from Regensburg (Germany), they were exposed to music by their father, the jazz saxophonist Ulrich Teichmann, right from the early days. Filmmakers Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios captured the two brothers live at the closing night of world famous Berlin club Maria. The concert forms part of the "play loud! (live) music series (audio & video)": 001 Floating di Morel, 002 Doc Schoko, 003 Irmler + Einheit, 004 Faust, 005 Gebrueder Teichmann.

A film about the art exhibition 'Alan Suicide: Collision Drive' at Deitch Projects in New York in 2002. The film shows Alan Vega's work as a visual artist and displays 18 of his light sculptures created between 1971 and 2001.

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These two female singers from New York City, who also play piano and electric guitar full of reverb, cross the Atlantic this time around with their own band. So, it's very likely that their "urban folk" will be even more compact, infectious and soulful than ever before. Their last album, released on the Klangbad label, got rave reviews around the globe - with NME giving it four points out of five. It could well be a foretaste of what we can expect live: heart-warming songs celebrating close harmony create a wonderful mood - only interrupted now and again by gruff punk-interludes that arrive just in time to rescue things from becoming too celebratory. The concert was filmed for the "play loud! (live) music series".

At the event "Shadows of the Past" Felipe González, Emilio Silva and Carlos Castresana discussed the following questions: How much of historic memory is necessary? What kind of traces of Francoism are left in Spain? Can we still say that the Spanish democratization process was exemplary?

The concert was recorded by German Public TV during the 1982 'Collision Drive' tour. The DVD contains a conversation with Alan Vega in 2002 regarding his work as a visual artist. Title: Alan Suicide 'Collision Drive'.

Locust Fudge presented their new album Oscillation at Privatclub Berlin. Filmmakers Lucía Palacios and Dietmar Post captured the concert as part of the Play Loud (Live) Music Series. The entire film can be watched at the play loud archive and store.

"Animare: Trails in the World's Chaparral" is a story about creation and decay, about movement and static, about growth and decrease, about the vast source of nature and change. It is a meditation of light and darkness and sound and silence. Objects come into being and vanish, they move or stand still, they grow or shrink. They are found in nature: whole plants, stalks, roots, panicles, bones, stones, which obtain our interest. Also shaped forms of paper, cut or torn, which communicate with nature. Each sound has also a sound shadow and each shadow contains a sound. In the performance tension is created through slow movement and the dialog with the sounds. In October 2010 "Animare" was performed during the culture days in Sophienkirche in München (Riem). An exhibition of Gisela Oberbeck was shown: a series of paper cuts, which figured vanished or threatened plants and they were integrated into the performance. Filmmakers and archivists Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios captured the performance for the Play Loud (Live) Music Series.

To this day, Damo Suzuki of Can continues to tour the world, playing improvised sets with one-off ensembles of local musicians as he goes. On this Berlin date, his Sound Carriers include Ilpo Väisänen of Pan Sonic and Dirk Dresselhaus of Schneider TM, among other remarkable types. This instant composition was performed at the club Marie-Antoinette. The renowned filmmakers Lucía Palacios and Dietmar Post captured the concert in one continuous 120-minute take. As part of the Play Loud (Live) Music Series, the performance is also available as a double vinyl LP.