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“it’s not the gaze, but the look” – Female Icons
What makes a woman an icon? is an art project by De Geuzen which explores the constitution of a woman as an icon:The aesthetic of this project’s archive reinforces the idea that an icon or representation is in itself a way of seeing. Seeing the symmetrical grid of images almost evoke a sense of …
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waltz with bashir
The animated film by Ari Folman, which slowly starts to hit theaters, caused some interest at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It introduces itself as a very personal narration about a soldier’s memory loss. From the synopsis: One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in …
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Augusto Boal: Theater and sensitive thinking
During the last week the renown theater director and writer Augusto Boal held an event on invitation of the berlin biennale. It was a very special evening introducing himself through a longer speech, and then followed by some pieces with invited actors, his son and the participating audience to give a a lively impression …
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The voices of Küba
Berlin’s Tanas Gallery (Gallery for Contemporary Turkish Art) shows currently the prize-winning 2004 work “Küba” of Kutlug Ataman.
The installation of 40 interviews on old-fashioned TV models, each supplied with an individual 2 second hand chair, creates a chorus of voices each telling their own story. In front of the monitor one is solely confronted … -
Welcome to Nollywood and This is Nollywood
Two recent films will help everyone interested to get information and some insight into the phenomenon of ‘Nollywood’ – the nigerian video feature film industry – a not so recent, but increasingly developing cinema of its own standards. The 2006 production This is Nollywood by Franco Sacchi describes itself as a documentary film that …
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The Metro
Magdy El Shafee’s The Metro, a just recently in Egypt published graphic novel was confiscated by the authorities last week a few months after its publication.
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some insight – No Forbidden Zone in Reading?
NEW LEFT REVIEW publishes in its recent issue a longer essay by Zhang Yongle on the history of the important and influential intellectual Chinese magazine Dushu. Reason for the review is delivered by the current (July 2007) publication of a six-volume Chinese edition featuring the most important texts from 1996 to 2005, a time …