occupation 101
Described as a must to see: … almost a year ago the film occupation 101 got its first – very positive – reviews (see imbd, my space ) by interested and some occasional movie goers on festivals. The documentation focuses on the palestinian-israeli conflict, and was done as their first film project after a visit […] Read More
Kubrick, Nixon and the man in the moon / The darkside of the moon
An intelligently and brilliantly done fake documentary (mokumentary) – a must for all interested in conspiracy theories. Furthermore a good lesson for the analyzis of perceptional strategies and their ‘trust’ in and construction on the expression of media ‘truth’: originally published in french under the title Opération Lune, Kubrick, Nixon und der Mann im Mond […] Read More
minor instincts / shock doctrine
The recent new book – and accompanying film – of Naomi Klein causes already a lot of discussion. And it is good that there are (semi*) open places like the Guardian mini-site to provide this. Sorrily I haven’t read the book, thus I can’t really decide on some raised detail information, also I can’t really […] Read MoreHamburg Lessons
Finally I found an english online review which relates to the recently much reviewed film ‘Hamburger Lektionen’ (Hamburg lessons) by Romuald Karmakar. This film makes a certain way of thinking visible: …. by opting for extreme asceticism. The only thing you see in the actor Manfred Zapatka. Wearing a black suit and dark shirt, he […] Read MoreParis’ Autumn Festival focuses on Middle East
Paris’ Autumn Festival, which spreads over the city would definitly be worth a trip there. It is know as a world renowned gathering of many ultramodern artists and has a delightful taste of many scopes of art including: theatre, dance, cinema, music and visual arts. This event, which is in its 36th circuit this year, […] Read More
control / out of control
Currently a film about the legendary post-punk group Joy Division gets a lot of attention in Britain and elsewhere, which now swaps also slowly over here: On May 18, 1980 the world was the target of two natural disasters. Mt. St. Helens blew her top, spewing a pyroclastic cloud miles into the air and laying […] Read More
Auf der anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven
Film maker Fatih Akin gets a lot of credit here in Germany at the moment, and that is for sure what he deserves. As the magazine quantara.de outs it the ideas and views transported in his newest film ‘Auf der anderen Seite’ (The Edge of Heaven) – are indeed able to be Transcending Prejudice and […] Read MoreMedea alone – interesting, yet ….
‘Medea‘ the old myth of the furious woman, passionate, betrayed, full of revenge .. has been reworked by numerous writers and theater plays, but among the more interesting interpretations are surely the one of C.Wolf’s polyphone ‘Medea. Voices‘ and Heiner Müller’s text, which he had straightened down to the essential staff. Stripped down further to […] Read MoreThe multicultural Issue
The multicultural Issue is the headline of a discussion series which developed over the last months on the signandsight.com website around the controversy how to deal and react to islamic traditions and views throughout Europe or more generally the West. Who should the West support: moderate Islamists like Tariq Ramadan, or Islamic dissidents like Ayaan […] Read Moreinside insight view
“Honorable Doctor, I am sending with this, 3 page drawings. Thank you so much for the paper. Take a look at the letter if you have time… I have decided upon – Träume u. Schäume (Dreams and Foams) – or Schweisstropfen (Drops of Sweat) as a title. I hope you see the picture better than […] Read Morepicidae – breaking through the wall / ZONE INTERDITE – unveiling some blind spots
A cool project currently has been set up and continues developing to deliver access to blocked and censored sites, which have been blocked for political reasons, via so called ‘pici-servers’. … The World Wide Web, the nervous system of a simultaneous communication and the platform for global data exchange, is quite a diverse heterogeneous formation. […] Read More