Histoire(s) du cinéma
These two articles focusing on Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma are the openers of the recent screening the past issue, as in the issue before an international poll has selected Godard’s Histoire(s) (along with Gilberto Perez’s The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium) as the most significant publications in our field in the past decade: […] Read More
Logical Aesthetics
Research as Cultural Practice has been addressed now for some time, but this work by gatescherrywolmark I came across the other day is really presenting its expression/result in form of an interesting and refreshing media piece. The visible traces of the past in the present provide the essential material from which the video, Logical Aesthetics, […] Read MoreAmerica’s Change
Visualization of Obama’s Victory Speech >>> see source page .. and as it has been an historic event let’s also link to this visualization of Martin Wattenberg – the site History Wired, a visualization of a selection of objects from the Smithsonian Museum. (This was built in collaboration with Judy Gradwohl at the Smithsonian.) A […] Read Morethe ultimate underground movie
Yesterday I posted on Ken Jacobs Online Exhibition at tank.tv and gave two short examples of the films to be seen there. ‘The Whirled’, which was a pre-work to his magnum opus ‘Star Spangled to Death’. And this latter film definitely deserves some more words. Synopsis according to Jim Knipfel (from an interview with K.Jacobs): […] Read More
Ken Jacobs Online Exhibition at tank.tv
Don’t miss this kind of unique opportunity to watch these rarely seen films: Ken Jacobs Online Exhibition at tank.tv / Curated by Mark Webber Ken Jacobs (b.1933) has been active as a filmmaker, performer and teacher for the past five decades. Rigorous and dedicated, his work is characterised by a keen eye for formal composition […] Read More
The Stranger in Me – Das Fremde in mir
UPDATE: I posted this information before I even saw the film as I knew an earlier work by film maker Emily Atef (‘Molly’s way‘ / see post) … and was right to do so >>> The Stranger in me is a strong movie focusing on an unpopular theme and narrating its story convincingly in an […] Read Moreafrican screens – new cinemas from africa
Even though the festival african screens – new cinemas from africa at the House of World Cultures (HKW Berlin) started already last week I want to point towards it as a very good opportunity to get a sense of the african cinemas. So far I only have been able to visit two events, thus there […] Read More
assume the fetal position ….
Today I came across an article in in the german newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) which offers a read-worthy, though kind of bitter review on the heritage which the current president of the US will leave behind to all of us. As looking back and recounting the distortions caused over the years within the understanding […] Read More
new new deal (*)
Saskia Sassen writes on Open Democracy on the recent financial crisis – the article ‘The new new deal‘ is obviously the opener for a new series ‘When local housing becomes a global electronic instrument’ … and it might be interesting to read further opinions and analysis on the theme: The current moment would be a […] Read MoreZ32
Avi Mograbi’s presentation at the Venice Film Festival this year seemingly offered an interesting approach towards a difficult theme in which the filmmaker questions his own political and artistic approach. The film, based on real interviews, but concealing the attester’s identity is set up as a musical documentary tragedy. An Israeli ex-soldier who participated in […] Read Moretwo North African cities on focus in Berlin
The House of World Cultures Exhibition In the Desert of Modernity. Colonial Planning and After examines the colonial fantasies of the West(/Europe) using the north-african city Casablanca as an experimental playground of modernistic ideas and the consequent impact of this enforced transformations. From the 1930s on, colonial North Africa was transformed into a laboratory for […] Read More