On the night of Friday 13 November 2026, at midnight, the artists' cinema project Videoart at Midnight shows films by Daniel Hopp in the big hall of Kino Babylon. Entry is free and open to everyone, and the artist will be there. It is screening number 164 in a series that has been putting video art on a real cinema screen since 2008.
Hopp studied in Hamburg, Stuttgart and at the Royal College of Art in London, and received the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship in 2022. He works with friends, neighbours and people he meets in specific social settings, who play versions of themselves. His films are about addiction, class, violence and care, and about who gets to tell whose story.
What to expect
The main work is Fictional Healing (2026, 30 min), adapted for the cinema from a multi-part installation first shown at Kunsthaus Hamburg. It moves between Berlin's Leopoldplatz and the Drob Inn drug counselling centre near Hamburg's main station, and mixes documentary interviews with re-enacted dreams and fantasies of people affected by addiction. It is serious, and in places funny. The programme also includes If there is love, you will take it (2020, 11 min), in which self-declared "tough boys" play the gangsters they'd like to be, a film made with his neighbour Daggi, who fled the GDR and later worked as a private detective, and The Producer (2026), shown as a 12-minute raw cut.
Good to know
- When: Friday 13 November 2026, midnight (technically Saturday 14 November, 00:00)
- Where: Kino Babylon, big hall, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin
- Entry: free, no tickets
- Programme: four films, a little over an hour in total. Daniel Hopp is present.
- Content: drug use, addiction, sex work
- Getting there: U2 Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz is right outside. U2 and U8 run all night at weekends.
Nearby
If you start the evening in Potsdam, the KlangFarben concert at Museum Barberini (7pm) leaves enough time to get back for midnight. The Sophiensæle, ten minutes west, plays Membering at 7pm the same evening.
With the Julia Stoschek Foundation's Berlin space now closed, screenings like this one are among the few regular places in the city to see artists' film on a big screen.