Films by I.J. Biermann

Germany 2012, 105 min
by I.J. Biermann

A free-wheeling, artistic tour film about the joint 2011 ‘Black Oyster Tour’ of Alexander Rishaug und Erik K. Skodvin alias Svarte Greiner. Two Norwegian musicians, living in Oslo and Berlin, who have been releasing solo albums for many years, decided to go on their first tour together, travelling European cities to perform individual sets each evening, but also to improvise and meet fellow musicians like Kreng or Machinefabriek along the way. The trip led them to performances in galleries, left

Germany 2012, 14 min
by I.J. Biermann, Fiene Scharp

There is no contact to my father and my grandparents any more. Too often we didn’t see and speak to each other for many years. It seems we never had a real relationship. About their past, which is my family’s history, I don’t know more than a few sentences, adumbrations. Normannenstraße - the street where the former headquarter of the Stasi, the ministry for secret police, ist located. Everyone of the former GDR knows that. Normannenstraße is where I grew up. My grandfather probably worked in th