Directing
Dave Lojek
DE, FR, EN, XX cinema · 30 credits
Born
5 October 1975 (age 51)
Birthplace
Berlin, East Germany
Dave Lojek loves filmmaking. A lot. He belongs to the prolific and most often selected directors of the 21st century with over 2273 invitations to 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 264 film awards. Some people seem to enjoy his movies. 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 encapsulate 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. He calls his motivation intrinsic and gifts his art to cinema audiences. As independent producer, he created and distributed 185 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2026. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly Open Screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema (Moviemento in Kreuzberg) 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. Dave is a proponent of human-made cinematic art and fights against generative AI—and thus against the erosion of the appreciation and perception of all art forms, the withering of the thought process, the regurgitation of the internet at large. Sadly, AI-generated websites have scraped this biography and fantasized stuff he never wrote.
Known for
Filmography
CATOPTRICS
Director, Editor, Producer, Sound Designer, Publicist
Traces of Grief
Director, Prop Designer, Editor, Producer, Publicist
Julienne of Light Bulbs
Director, Editor, Producer, Props, Art Direction
Umbra of Deceit
Editor, Director, Producer
Osmosis
Editor, Sound Designer, Director, Producer
EGGspression
Editor, Director, Producer
Core of a Nature
Publicist
Calxophobia
Editor, Director, Producer
Fox & Penguin
Director of Photography, Set Photographer, Prop Maker, Location Scout, Producer, Director, Colorist, Camera Operator, Editor, Production Manager
The Right Vintage
Publicist
Occurrences of Questionable Significance
Director, Writer, Art Direction, Editor, Colorist, Producer, Sound Designer
The Last Supper
Editor, Producer, Director
I Came From The Future
Producer, Editor, Director
Keeper
Editor, Director, Producer, Sound Editor
Snitch
Director, Producer, Editor
Arachne
Co-Director, Set Designer, Editor, Writer, Producer
Fortune Flies
Editor, Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Proverbial Luck
Producer, Director, Editor
Pure Sweetness
Director, Editor, Producer
Fainting Flicker
Director of Photography, Editor, Director, Camera Operator, Set Photographer, Writer, Producer
Refugee Poetry
Producer, Director, Camera Operator, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Colorist
The Princess Strikes Back
Director, Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
Psychic Sue
Director, Editor, Producer
Hec Tic Tac
Editor, Producer, Director
Paradise Beach
Editor, Producer, Director
Two Too Odd
Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Editor, Idea
Sick City
Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Director, Idea
Trust
Producer, Director, Editor
Perspective
Editor, Producer, Director