highly recommended: Persepolis, the movie
Persepolis, the animation film after the books by Marjane Satrapi (see earlier post), starts to be around, and after seeing it myself I just recommend to go and see yourself …. YouTube link … and more here .. and to leave no more words, but just agreeing on this salon review.. People who have no […] Read Morep2p microfinance
.. what an excellent idea! kiva.org works on the basis of a free loan by a private lender to the very poor, who plan or have some business to develop, but would almost have no chance to lend from a normal bank. The website is personalizing the contact between the lender and the entrepreneur through […] Read MoreThe Persian Revolution
An interesting theater piece – entitled The Persian Revolution – by Mehrdad Seyf is currently travelling the UK described as a surreal, comic and disturbing piece of theatre inspired by the events of the 1906 Constitutional Revolution in Iran. The piece ia already Seyf’s fith production and his work is generally described as being influenced […] Read More
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 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 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 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 More
persecution seems to have taken the place of prosecution
Sadly enough this seems true on more than one level concerning the political and social arguments and actions here in Germany these days .. Very recent in mind are the more than stupid statements of the major of Mügeln following the persecution of foreigners last weekend. No one prosecuted for that severe case of racism? […] Read Morethe naming continues – rebuilding history
.. another concept of taking it kind of literally is the very interesting ‘project naming‘ across which I came on savage minds: While the archival community has long recognized that the majority of Inuit whose photographs are held in the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collections were not identified, it was Murray Project Naming: Atootoo, […] Read More
the invisible line
Chomsky talks in the recent Le Monde Diplomatique issue about the mechanisms behind modern communication … … DM: When a leading journalist or TV news presenter is asked whether they are subject to pressure or censorship, they say they are completely free to express their own opinions. So how does thought control work in a […] Read More