Kris Kelvin | Hatebur.

Feuer, Wasser, Luft und Erde

Warum lacht Herr W.?

Ditch Plains

FICTION

2011 | HDV | color | 30 min

Shot in the East New York section of Brooklyn around the time of Hurricane Sandy, Ditch Plains (HDV, 30 mins) is a dystopian sci-fi street dance film featuring members of Ringmasters Crew.
Like avatars running the levels of an apocalyptic video game, Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn and Marty McFly hallucinate the city and its networks as a space of terror, mutation and magic. “Flexing,” “bone breaking,” “pauzing” and “connecting” in nighttime streets, hotel hallways and a posh Park Avenue apartment, the dancers improvise dream-like scenes suggesting digital death matches, stop-and-frisk situations and catastrophic man-machine interfaces. Meanwhile, documentary shots of Far Rockaway show the city’s attempt to manage disaster in real life: police patrol the shattered flood zone as citizens line up with jerry cans. Scenes on iPhone screens play like Vine transmissions in a blacked-out world where no survivors or friends can receive them.
Referencing contemporary pop spectacles such as Step Up Revolution, as well as Jean Rouch’s The Mad Masters, Ditch Plains imagines a sort of End of Days street party while free-styling an abstract narrative about the fatal coupling of subjects and systems under conditions of permanent crisis.

Founded in 2007, Ringmasters Crew is a competitive street dance crew based in New York. Ringmasters Crew has appeared on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, Entertainment Tonight and America’s Got Talent, as well as in music videos by Nicki Minaj and Black Eyed Peas.

DIRECTOR Loretta Fahrenholz
CINEMATOGRAPHER Till Megerle

ADDITIONAL CAMERA Loretta Fahrenholz, Connor Owens

EDITING Lena Hatebur, Steffen Martin
SOUND DESIGN Steffen Martin

MUSIC Dan Aran, Timo Ellis, Steffen Martin, Pharmakon

PRODUCTION COORDINATION Inka Meissner

TEXT John Kelsey

VOICE OVER Corey Batts

COLOR GRADING Ben Brix

TITLE ANIMATION Elisabeth Schulze

INTERLUDE-ANIMATION Steffen Martin

TITLES & GRAPHIC DESIGN Lina Grumm, HIT

VERLEIH Arsenal

CAST

Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn, Marty McFly, Jim Fletcher, Vibez, Asha Flasha, Damian «Gucci-ino» Buchanan, Lil Buck, Spyda Da HatMan, Modesto Flako Jimenez, Princess Lockeroo, 8 Ball, Ace, Dez, DVS, Flizzo, Maze, Optimus, Problemz, Scorp, Lakela Brown, Marie Karlberg, Jackie Klempay, Michael Stynes, Vanessa Cintron, Prynce Ptah, Michael Sanchez

EXHIBITIONS solo & group

MoMa, Manhattan

Kunsthalle Zürich

Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm

Museum Moderner Kunst / Stiftung Ludwig, Wien

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Milano Film Festival, Italy

Artists Space at Frieze New York 2014

Kadist, San Francisco
Project Native Informant, London

Private Artmuseum, Warschau
KW Institute for Contemorary Art, Berlin

Galerie Buchholz at Art Cologne 2017

D21 Kunstraum Leipzig

Ditch Plains

Ditch Plains

COMMERCIAL

2018 | HD | color | Dolby SR*D EX | 4 min

SCRIPT & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Moritz Bauer, Lena Hatebur

COMPOSER Christopher Dierks,

SOUND MIX Jana Irmert

COLOUR CORRECTION Freeda Peeple

PRODUCTION Lena Hatebur

CLIENT Berliner Gartenarbeitsschulen

COMMERCIAL

2018 | HD | color | Dolby SR*D EX | 4 min

SCRIPT & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Moritz Bauer, Lena Hatebur

COMPOSER Christopher Dierks,

SOUND MIX Jana Irmert

COLOUR CORRECTION Freeda Peeple

PRODUCTION Lena Hatebur

CLIENT Berliner Gartenarbeitsschulen

COMMERCIAL

2018 | HD | color | Dolby SR*D EX | 4 min

SCRIPT & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Moritz Bauer, Lena Hatebur

COMPOSER Christopher Dierks,

SOUND MIX Jana Irmert

COLOUR CORRECTION Freeda Peeple

PRODUCTION Lena Hatebur

CLIENT Berliner Gartenarbeitsschulen

Created by Hatebur.

Kris Kelvin

MUSIC VIDEOS

This is my Band and the best reason to create music videos by myself.

WAITING FOR THE PEOPLE TO CRY

2014 | HD | color | Stereo | 4 min

DIRECTOR & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Christiane Schmidt, Lena Hatebur

MUSIC Kris Kelvin 'Waiting for the People to Cry' from the EP 'Forva', produced by Tobias Siebert at Studio Radio Buellebrueckin in Berlin 2013

OCEAN

2013 | HD | color | Stereo | 3 min

DIRECTOR & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Christiane Schmidt

STAGE CONSTRUCTION Afrodite Matsini

ASSISTANCE Christoph Grzeschik, Stefan Ziegler, Anya Grünewald, Nancy Müller

MUSIC Kris Kelvin 'Ocean' from the EP 'Forva', produced by Tobias Siebert at Studio Radio Buellebrueck in Berlin 2013

FACING THE GLORY

2014 | HD | color | Stereo | 5 min

DIRECTOR & EDITING Lena Hatebur

CINEMATOGRAPHER Christiane Schmidt

ADDITIONAL CAMERA Lena Hatebur, Baumkuchen, Sebastian Herrmann, Stefan Ziegler

MUSIC Kris Kelvin 'Facing the Glory' from the Album 'Intronaut', a Live Recording by Robert Amarell at Horns Erben in Leipzig, May 2014