Dave Lojek
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 5, 1975
- 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.
Filmography
CATOPTRICS 2026
Director, Editor, Producer, Sound Designer, Publicist
Traces of Grief 2024
Director, Producer, Editor, Publicist, Prop Designer
Julienne of Light Bulbs 2024
Director, Editor, Producer, Props, Art Direction
The Actor The Liar The Murderer 2024
Publicist
EGGspression 2023
Director, Producer, Editor
Osmosis 2023
Director, Producer, Editor, Sound Designer
Umbra of Deceit 2023
Director, Editor, Producer
Core of a Nature 2023
Publicist
Calxophobia 2022
Director, Producer, Editor
Fox & Penguin 2021
Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Editor, Set Photographer, Production Manager, Colorist, Prop Maker, Location Scout, Camera Operator
The Right Vintage 2021
Publicist
Occurrences of Questionable Significance 2020
Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Colorist, Art Direction, Sound Designer
The Last Supper 2018
Editor, Producer, Director
Keeper 2018
Director, Producer, Editor, Sound Editor
Snitch 2018
Director, Editor, Producer
I Came From The Future 2018
Editor, Producer, Director
Fortune Flies 2017
Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Editor
Arachne 2017
Co-Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Set Designer
Fainting Flicker 2016
Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Camera Operator, Set Photographer, Editor, Producer
Pure Sweetness 2016
Director, Editor, Producer
Refugee Poetry 2016
Director, Director of Photography, Colorist, Editor, Camera Operator, Producer, Screenplay
Proverbial Luck 2016
Director, Editor, Producer
The Princess Strikes Back 2014
Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Director, Producer, Editor
Hec Tic Tac 2013
Director, Editor, Producer
Psychic Sue 2013
Director, Editor, Producer
Paradise Beach 2013
Director, Producer, Editor
Two Too Odd 2012
Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Editor, Idea
Sick City 2012
Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Director, Idea
Trust 2011
Director, Producer, Editor
Perspective 2010
Editor, Director, Producer
Credits from TMDB.