New Noblesse Oblige video

A brand new Noblesse Oblige album will hit stores at the end of May. It is called Malady. Edwin has worked with Valerie and Sebastian on their Quel genre de garçon video and his film L’Amour Toujours. In the video for The Great Electrifier, the first single from Malady, Edwin created a devilish, visual playground. Inspired by Alfred Böcklin or even Aleister Crowley, the video flirts with occultism in an art-aesthetic way that resembles the works of Maya Deren or Kenneth Anger, mixed with a touch of Dark Shadows kitsch. Camera work is by Matthias Tschiedel, and filming was in the Berlin Spreepark and the Old Mausoleum House in Potsdam.

Polaroid

New Polaroid section. Check it out.

Pit and the pendulum

Last weekend we finished filming the first part of ‘Mroc’, a new Polish/German co-production directed by Brienen. ’Mroc’ (working title) deals with Nietzsche, dark symbolism and magical moments, and tells the story of Hanna (Eva Dorrepaal), a doctor who specializes in anatomical pathology. Hanna is trapped in a vicious loop of hate, anger and revenge. Through magic, she tries to bring back her deceased husband (Sebastian Šuba), with devastating results.

Filming conditions were extreme as always, with most shootings outside and in a cold basement, when it was -15° in Berlin. In April, the second part of the movie (present story line) will be filmed. A theatrical release is expected for the end of this year.

Der weisse Hai ist gut

Wednesday, 10 February, Edwin is one of the main guests at Der weisse Hai ist gut which broadcasts on Berlin Herbstradio.

Mario Mentrup and Claudia Basrawi interview Edwin about his film career and favorite music. The show can be heard live from 18.00 til 20.00 Hrs at Herbstradio by tuning in on Berlin UKW frequency 99.1 or through a live stream at www.herbstradio.org

VPRO Radio 1993

Strange Life Records found one of Edwin’s early radio shows for VPRO Broadcasting Association, back in 1993.

“I’ve found this cassette with a recording from the early 90s where the legendary illustrious Edwin Brienen interviews “The Hague Underground founders” Guy Tavares and I.F on the national state radio. This was when the dutch state radio VPRO did really good stuff on prime time friday evening radio. Nowadays it sucks hard and they only play laxative top 40 or mainstream alternative pop music for dumb people and little kids. It doesn’t matter nobody listens to it anyways its just our tax money getting thrown away on useless shit.

Anyways back to better days… its in dutch language, sorry for that”.

Here’s the link:

http://strangeliferecords.blogspot.com/2009/11/early-90s-bunker-unit-moebius-reportage.html

Edwin talks with German Maulbeerblatt

Edwin Brienen is a one-off independent film maker who has often been called ‘The Dutch Fassbinder’. Born in The Netherlands Edwin has made 14 films, many stage plays and has shot music videos. He’s lived in New York and is currently living in a pleasant area of Berlin. After studying philosophy and psychology Edwin started his career as a radio host on Dutch Radio Association VPRO. In an interview for Maulbeerblatt, Edwin talked about his films, his past and future.

http://www.maulbeerblatt.com/2009/11/edwin-brienen-the-dutch-fasbinder/

An older interview for Simulacron Network is back online again, here’s the link:

http://www.simulacron.org/mag/2009/07/edwin-brienen-interview.html