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AN ETHNOLOGIC LENS

Friday, September 27, 2013

It all began with a journey to Brasil in 1968, when the photographer Leonore Mau and the author Hubert Fichte started working and travelling together. Mau, who was not only Fichte’s companion, but also his muse, documented African-American rituals and cults. Her ethnologic approach paired with a unique eye for motives, made her to one [...]

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FOUND

Thursday, September 26, 2013

The venerable publishing house of National Geographic is celebrating its 125th anniversary, and have graciously installed a new site to share the best of their infinitely vast archives of photographs documenting our weird and wonderful planet over the last 125 years. Need we say more? Beats any funky design blogs or fashion blurb by light [...]

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IF A TREE FALLS AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Bomba Estero | A Take Away Show | Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
To those who live to scour Berlin’s soundscape, teeming with many a diamond in the rough, Petite Planètes will stand as the ultimate lovesong (excuse the cliché) to music’s overlooked, obscure, or near obliterated.  Uniting documentary, music video, and art [...]

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LET’S GET LOST

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Finally managed to track down the brilliant documentary Let’s Get Lost by fashion photography legend Bruce Weber on jazz legend Chet Baker in his final years, and what a film. If jazz is your cup of tea, then this is for you, and if it is not, it’s for you anyway. Maybe rather surprisingly fashion [...]

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RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES

Sunday, June 23, 2013

The Festival Rencontres Internationales opens next Tuesday at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (description from the HKW website):
The distinction between documentary and fictional approaches is increasingly blurring. Our viewing habits are outdated, new challenges demand new approaches. The Festival Rencontres Internationales aims to meet those demands: an international selection of 150 hitherto unreleased [...]

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CURIOUS ICONIC CRAFT

Friday, June 14, 2013

Browse through any ‘Best Magazine Cover’ lists of the past five years, chances are you will find our favourite film magazine Little White Lies somewhere near the top. With its curious illustrative approach, it struck out from any magazine shelf and ‘inspired’ a whole range of offbeat printed matter. So it was somewhat sad news [...]

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SUMMER OF UNREST

Monday, June 10, 2013

These images speak for themselves. Vice Magazine was on site the day it all kicked off.

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LIVING ARCHIVE

Monday, June 3, 2013

In June 2013, LIVING ARCHIVE at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin will present the results of the Living Archive project, initiated in 2011 by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin). The project’s participants present their research and their responses to the Arsenal collection in the form of an exhibition. On [...]

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TEDDY GRAY’S SWEET FACTORY

Saturday, May 25, 2013

To continue with the theme of Britishness, Martin Parr’s wonderful short film about a sweet factory in Birmingham is as about as picture-perfect ‘British’ as it gets. The 20 minute long documentary follows Betty and Teddy Gray, owners of one of the only companies left in Britain that are yet to go online or [...]

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ONE PERSON WITH A LOT OF MACHINES

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The legend foreseeing the future. Mr. Morrison is informing the death of rock.
“It may rely heavily on electronics, tapes…One person with a lot of machines; tapes and electronic set-ups…”

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