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NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA

Friday, October 21, 2011

Miranda July’s Future has been announced for German release in cinemas in late October, and our beloved Mrs July has promised that she will introduce it to us in person. In the meantime, the latest newsletter from our beloved friends at McSweeney’s says that they have just published a new book by the same Miranda [...]

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BEING A CROWD

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Stadiums used to be built so that the audience on the stands could feel their numbers and feel the rush of emotions being felt by tens of thousands of people simultaneously. If you’ve never been in a full stadium like this it’s worth trying, you can’t compare it to anything. Big crowds can often be [...]

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THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Isn’t that what life is all about, after all: endings and beginnings (and whatever we manage to squeeze in between)? Which reminds me that I should listen again to a friend’s debut album made entirely out of endings…

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FANTASTIC SPIN

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Fashion and film are an odd match somehow – what works so well with photography, as in clothes + imagery = seduction, seems to have a hard time to really touch ground with motion film, for some reason. But there is always hope when talented minds such as the guys at Fantastic Man set their [...]

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EARLY 3D

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Norman McLaren was one of the most significant abstract filmmakers of the British inter-war period. Born in 1914 in Stirling, Scotland, he entered the Glasgow School of Fine Arts in 1932, where he became interested in film and joined the School’s Kine Society. He became a pioneer of 3D film and sound experiments in [...]

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HOLOCENE

Monday, August 22, 2011

It’s never a bad idea to start off the week with a dreamy, beautiful music video that makes you want to drop everything and see the wonders of the world, right now, summer or not. Bon Iver’s melancholy might or might not be your cup of tea, but can’t really argue with Australian director Nabil’s [...]

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JULY’S TRAVELS

Saturday, August 20, 2011

I always imagined promotion and press tours for your new film/record/book to be dull and draining exercises, but the way Miranda July chronicles her efforts to promote her second film on her very lively blog these days gives you the impression that in fact it’s something fun and magical. Or maybe life really does depend [...]

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City Palace

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Rui Vilela interviews the Lebanese journalist and filmmaker Raed El Rafei, who talks about his experiences in relation to the former cinema ‘City Palace’, also commonly known as ‘Egg-building’. In the interview El Rafei comes to memories of the period after the Civil War and looks at film as a platform for [...]

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KILLING THE WINTER MOOD – FRIKK Festival 2011 & ONEBEAT

Thursday, August 4, 2011

From 8th to 17th of August, FrIKK Festival will be happening at the Bethanien, right in the heart of Kreuzberg. The festival is a non-profit project that aims not only to give a platform for artists (working within all sorts of media) to show their work as also to donate all the profit to the [...]

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WHY FRIDGES?

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Films are being shown on fridges, in London. Here’s why.

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