The French/German TV channel "arte" announced that Jörg Buttgereits documentary film MONSTERLAND will be aired on Halloween 2010. In his doc Buttgereit meets with monster experts like John Carpenter, Rick Baker, Joe Dante, Kenpachiro Satsuma, H.R. Giger, Shinya Tsukamoto, Joe Coleman, Minoru Kawasaki and many others.

airdate: 31.10.2010 (in Germany and France)

NEKROMANTIK and DER TODESKING will be released by Media Target distribution in Berlin in limited edition grindhouse-hardboxes in September 2010. The DVDs have no region code. The films are uncut and have English, French, Spanish and Italien subtitles.

The hardboxes will be numbered and limited to 333 (NEKROMANTIK) and 222 (TODESKING) pieces.

Jörg Buttgereit will make an appearance on this year’s edition of the BUT film festival ( 8.-12. Sept. 2010) in the Netherlands.
Fans of bizarre, experimental or otherwise distorting movies are served every year at the festival for B-movies, Undergoud and Trash films (BUTFF). Location is the city centre of Breda.
BUTFF aims to get a larger audience for artistic photo's, video's, film and modern digital media. The foundation wants to achieve this by mediating between public and artists, publishers and distributors.

Having started only last year, NIPPON CONNECTION Home Cinema has already attained cult status. Armed with a remote control, potato chips and beer, film director and Japanese film expert Jörg Buttgereit dissect one selected gem of Japanese trash film live in front of the silver screen.

Jörg will be accompanied by film director Thilo Gosejohann (who also helped him with “Captain Berlin Vs. Hitler” in 2009) to record the commentary track for an upcoming DVD edition of Kazui Nihonmatsu's classic "Uchu daikaijû girara" from 1967 (probably better known as "The X from Outer Space" ore “Big Space Monster Guilala”).

Date: 15th of April 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany. The number of seats is limited.

Part 5: VIDEO NASTY – Live Radio Play Performance

In the series ROUGH CUTS director Jörg Buttgereit takes on icons of popular, historical or not so common film genres, in order to give them a particular spin in one-time actionist short productions.

In his splatter radio play VIDEO NASTY Buttgereit re-enacts a typical Italian horror film from the Eighties. His media transfer focuses on the video revolution from back then and the heyday of splatter-aesthetics with cannibal and zombie motives.

A mysterious stranger steals the hearts of corpses from a New York morgue. Police detective Jack Romero and anthropologist Andrea Spinell are assigned to what seem to be ritual mutilations. Their investigations lead them to a cannibalistic tribe of indigenous people on a tropical island in the Pacific, where mad Dr. Herbert Fulci wants to turn the natives into an army of weak-willed Zombies. The radio play will be presented as a live performance by famous dubbing artists.

17 March 2010 / 20.00 pm / HAU / Hallesches Ufer 32 / 10963 Berlin

Jörg Buttgereit directed a new episode of the acclaimed series
INTO THE NIGHT for the French/German TV station arte.

INTO THE NIGHT WITH ODA JAUNE AND LARS EIDINGER follows the German actor Eidinger and Bulgarien painter Jaune to Sofia. They share thoughts about religion, sex and death. A real Buttgereit.

Airdate: 2nd of March 2010, 23:45 h, arte (in Germany and France)

Media Target distribution in Berlin released CAPTAIN BERLIN VERSUS HITLER on DVD with english subtitles.

The DVD has no area code and tons of Extras!

Special Features:
Audio Commentary by Jörg Buttgereit and Thilo Gosejohann, english audio Commentary by Mark Reeder, Captain Berlin Original Shorts: “Captain Berlin - Retter der Welt” and “Captain Berlin gegen Hyxar” with english subtitles, Backstage Report, World Premiere in Gelsenkirchen, Original Trailer, Trailers for Captain Cosmotic and Operation Dance Sensation, mini Comic-book OPERATION UNTERGANG and a dog-tag.

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Jörg Buttgereit has a small acting part as a cop in the horror movie MUST LOVE DEATH. The Fantasia film festival in Montreal held the world premiere which was quite a good fit. Offhand, it’s difficult to think of another film that features both a “meet cute” and a nail gun, but in his first feature, Andreas Schaap manages to unite the two. MLD, for better or worse, belongs to a genre of one: the torture porn romantic comedy. It also serves as an outsider’s view of American pop culture, being as it is directed and written by a German (with a mostly-German cast and crew). The film is shot in English.

The GROSSMANN Filmfestival in Slovenia is happy to announce that Jörg Buttgereit attended this year’s festival, where he received the award for special achievements in fantastic/horror cinematography.

Few authors have managed to convey to the silver screen such horrific, yet  at the same time captivating images as the Berlin director Jörg Buttgereit. Already his first effort NEKROMANTIK, that has earned him a rabid cult following in the underground horror scene of the eighties, baffled the censors and was prohibited in many countries, while the sequel was preferably to be obliterated from the face of the Earth. Despite these considerable difficulties, Buttgereit stayed true to his vision and became darker and more morbid with every film he made, he demanded more and more from his audience, but remained fresh and light-years away from the mainstream film-making scene.