The Persian Revolution

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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

Myth

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A lot of positive things can be heard about the performances of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, but for myself I hadn’t had the chance to see one of his performances until saturday .. It was absolutly worth it and answering the already risen expectations. The Moroccan dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui who works in Belgium […] Read More

occupation 101

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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

minor instincts / shock doctrine

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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 More

Hamburg Lessons

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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 More