KABARET FREEZE

Time stops around the creative people of Hamburgerkino. We can take a look at their faces and observe the situations they inhabit. The biggest open filmmaking workshop in Europe gathers talents and artists from all fields.

  • Dave Lojek
    Director
    ca. 150 shorts, selected for 333 festivals, 66 awards
  • Maxime Billon
    Director
    several shorts and ads
  • Dave Lojek
    Writer
    ca. 150 shorts, selected for 333 festivals, 66 awards
  • Maxime Billon
    Writer
  • Dave Lojek
    Producer
    ca. 150 shorts, selected for 333 festivals, 66 awards
  • Maxime Billon
    Producer
  • Maxime Billon
    Director of Photography
    many shorts
  • Project Type:
    Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    Experiment, Drama, Poetry
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 3, 2013
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Shooting Format:
    DSLR
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 15 int. Film Festivals
    Worldwide
Director Biography - Dave Lojek, Maxime Billon

Maxime Billon:
2010 • CLACK • Drama, dance • 7 min • 2 festivals • 2 awards (as DoP)
2010 • THE DECHAINMENT • fiction • 13 min • 1 festival
2010 • RHYTHM OF SCHANZE • music video • 6 min • 1 festival (as DoP)
2012 • WRONG INTERPRETATION • road movie • 1 min • 1 award
2013 • KABARET FREEZE • experiment • 3 min • 34 festivals
2013 • THE NEED • romantic comedy • 3 min • 2 festivals (as DoP)
2013 • THE REBEL • poetry • 3 min • 2 festivals

Dave Lojek loves filmmaking and belongs to the prolific and most often selected directors of the 21st century with over 1897 premiere screenings of his distributions at international film festivals worldwide. His favorite genres are comedy, parody, fantasy, romance, poetry, sci-fi and experiment. Dave also directs documentaries, dramas, portraits, and music videos. His works and distributions won 237 film awards. Dave Lojek graduated with an MA in English / American and Cultural Studies from Humboldt-University in his hometown Berlin.

In terms of content and style, Dave's poetic films are about magic, love, death, friendship, loneliness, artists, oddities, escapism, mythology and the everyday. Based on the Homo-Ludens-principle, Dave clearly focuses his often-cheerful work on the universal and timeless. His motivation is intrinsic.

As independent producer, he created 178 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2024. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly open cinema screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema and annual film workshops called KinoKabarets with his initiative KinoBerlino. Dave works as film distributor and president of a Film Association. The productions of APEIRON FILMS and KinoBerlino have been broadcast weekly since 2008 (ca. 11.982 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.

Selected Filmography (23% of the total œvre) of Director and Producer Dave Lojek

2024: TRACES OF GRIEF
2023: EGGSPRESSION • OSMOSIS • UMBRA OF DECEIT
2022: CALXOPHOBIA
2021: FUCHS & PINGUIN
2020: OCCURRENCES OF QUESTIONABLE SIGNIFICANCE
2018: I CAME FROM THE FUTURE • SNITCH • THE LAST SUPPER • KEEPER
2017: ARACHNE
2016: SAMA SŁODYCZ • DAS SPRICHWÖRTLICHE GLÜCK • REFUGEE POETRY
2015: FRUWAJĄCA FORTUNA • KINSKISCHRAUBE
2014: THE PRINCESS STRIKES BACK • FILM KITCHEN
2013: HEK TICK TACK • PSYCHIC SUE • PARADISE BEACH • FOCUS POCUS
2012: TWO TOO ODD • MADEMOISELLE NIMSI • SICK CITY
2011: TRUST • BELIEVE • METEORITES
2010: DER MIETER • PERSPECTIVE • MARIES STIMME • FLUSSAUFWÄRTS
2009: KIT & SUKA • MUSE • SERENDIPITY • INDECISION
2008: ROFL • ANGELS • PHOBIEN
2007: PROJEKTION • EVERMORE • FUTILITY • PELT PEOPLE
2006: PARLANDO
2005: DYSFUNCTION
1998-2000: SELBST UND FREMDBILDER IN DER WERBUNG Teil 1-3

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Director Statement

This is a so called freeze film, where time stops and the camera circles the actors.

FESTIVALS

1. International Short Film Festival & KinoKabaret Hamburg, Germany 2013
2. CINECITA International Youth Film Festival Bogota, Colombia 2014
3. Taglia Corti Music Video Festival Trieste, Italy 2014
4. NOFI World Festival of Student and Non-Commercial Films Yerevan, Armenia 2014
5. Kinofilm - Manchester International Short Film Festival, United Kingdom 2014
6. Agite y Sirva Festival Itinerante de Videodanza - touring through Mexico 2014
7. Festival Internacional del Cortometraje FIC Bella Vista, Argentina 2014
8. Festival de Cinema de Girona, Spain 2014
9. Videomedeja International Video Festival - Novi Sad, Serbia 2014
10. Bienal Internacional de Video y Cine Contemporáneo Videofest Mexicali, Mexico 2014
11. International TV Festival Bar, Montenegro 2014
12. Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq 2014
13. Internationaler Videoclip Wettbewerb Berlin, Germany 2014
14. NOFI World Festival of Student and Non-Commercial Films Los Angeles, USA 2015
15. FINCORTEX - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Experimentales, Tunja, Colombia 2014
16. The Unprecedented Cinema - International Festival of Short Film Tallinn, Estonia 2015
17. Short Form International Film Festival Gornji Milanovac, Serbia 2015
18. Blackbird Film Festival Cortland, USA 2015
19. Festival VideoBabel Cusco, Peru 2015
20. Golden Anteaters Film Festival Lublin, Poland 2015
21. Biesdorfer Dokumentar- und Kurzfilmforum, Germany 2015
22. Experimental Superstars International Film Festival Novi Sad, Serbia 2015
23. Vagrant Film Festival Zaludok, Belarus 2015
24. Festival De Cine Y Video Comunitario Miní A Guatia Andi San Basilio Ri Palenge - Bogota, Colombia 2015
25. Golden Sun Short Film Festival, Malta 2016
26. Independent Days Karlsruhe, Germany 2016
27. Lima Bean Film Fest St. Louis, USA 2016
28. „Fluktuationen“ - Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft Universität Wien, Austria 2016
29. Premio Cinematografico Palena, Italy 2016
30. MAGMART video under volcano – International Video-Art Festival Napoli, Italy 2016-2017
31. BlackBox Shortfilm Festival Biberstein, Switzerland 2017
32. Nairobi Film Festival, Kenya 2014 – 2015
33. MRK international video art festival ‘MIRACLES’ - Museum Romeinse Katakomben Valkenburg, The Netherlands 2017
34. Simultan Festival _ Possible Futures _ Timişoara, Romania 2017
35. BlackBox Short Film Extraction Biberstein, Switzerland 2018
36. Wordfest Berlin, Germany 2019
37. Scampia Short Film Competition Napoli, Italy 2018
38. Videomedeja International Video Festival - Novi Sad, Serbia 2019 – Retrospective of Dave Lojek
39. Perspective SHIFT edition of FilmFest by Rogue Dancer Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 2019
40. Moving Images International Videodance Festival Nicosia, Cyprus 2020
41. El grito de los sin voz Logroño, Spain 2020
42. MIAX - Muestra Independiente Audiovisual de Xalisco, Mexico 2020
43. 404 International Festival of Art and Technology Rosario, Argentina 2021