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Posted in Uncategorized with tags film, Germany, trailer, United Kingdom, W.G.Sebald on 1 February 2012 by delclem“The Door Ajar”: Artaud in Ireland
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Antonin Artaud, art, film, France, Ireland, magic, Patrick Jolley, theatre on 22 September 2011 by delclem
“On August 14th 1937 the French poet & theatre theorist Antonin Artaud arrived in Ireland. He had with him a walking stick he claimed to be St Patrick’s staff. His declared intention was to return this item to its rightful keepers.
Six weeks later he was arrested while trying to gain entrance to a religious house. No other records of his journey remain except for an unpaid lodgings bill and some postcards sent from Galway.”
Patrick Jolley´s film The Door Ajar (2011) uses an assembly of Artaud’s writings as the structure of a possible account of that lost time; currently on display
@ Dublin Contemporary (until 31 October 2011).
Also see > Jolley´s website (with stills & a clip taken from this fantastic film)
Markus Schleinzer’s film “Michael” puts a pedophile in uneasy focus
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Cannes, film, Markus Schleinzer, Michael, pedophilia, review on 5 September 2011 by delclem> Review by Eric Kohn (c) indieWire, 2011
“The unbearable monotony of stereotypes”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Balkans, Damir Nikšić, Emir Kusturica, film, Kursadžije, Marina Abramović, Muslims, Orientalism, Stereotyping, Šejla Kamerić on 15 April 2011 by delclem
Damir Nikšić is a Stockholm-based artist from Sarajevo (°1960).
His videos, installations, and performance work address
Orientalism in culture and cross-cultural psychology.
Vienna (quote)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, film, Literature, Vienna on 11 April 2011 by delclem
“Vienna. The city that will become your coffin. It is not a city of good taste. Not of peace either, nor of animated contentment, as it tries to simulate. Vienna is telling lies with its facades and its people, it is full of lively demons of the past…”
IGOR ŠTIKS, Die Archive der Nacht, Berlin 2009, p. 19 (transl. mine)
Special bonus track: “Vienna, only you…”?
Labskaus with dumplings & Dal
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bollywood, Central Europe, film, Germany, Globalization, India, Multikulti, review, TV on 13 February 2011 by delclem
Do you know Labskaus? It’s the traditional sailor’s food north of Hamburg: a stodge of beef, beetroot, pickles, onions, herring, and potatoes, all cooked and then squeezed through a meat grinder. Haters of this dish – because of its gross appearance – compare it to vomit, half digested and then spat out. Those who have got used to the vague taste of it praise Labskaus to the skies as a delicacy.
A mishmash of fish and meat: that’s also how globalization is understood by its opponents. People in favor, however, love to compare it to the nifty evening buffet, where everyone takes what s/he wants (and needs?): sushi, dumplings – plus a bit of Dal, the traditional Indian lentil dish.
This brings us back to Central Europe, where recently an unprecedented German-Austrian film experiment was televised (with Indian spices): Bollywood lässt Alpen glühen (‘Bollywood makes the Alps glow’) is the latest stroke of genius in German commercial TV for which, as we know, Continue reading
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