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“And Europe Will Be Stunned”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 23 June 2012 by delclem

“And Europe Will Be Stunned is a deeply stirring and contentious film trilogy by the Dutch-Israeli artist Yael Bartana, soon to open in Britain on its European tour. Each film is enough to disturb; together they are peculiarly subversive. I do not know exactly what they might mean to Jewish, Israeli or Palestinian viewers, still less to a Polish audience watching some of the scenes unfolding on the site of the Warsaw Ghettoitself. But my sense is that an anxious concern for other people’s reactions is at least part of the trilogy’s content.” >full review (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012

Photo (c) Yael Bartana/Marcin Kalinski

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A German poem that caused global turmoil

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 7 April 2012 by delclem

“During his long literary career, Günter Grass has been many things. Author, playwright, sculptor and, unquestionably, Germany’s most famous living writer. There is the 1999 Nobel prize and Grass’s broader postwar role as the country’s moral conscience – albeit a claim badly undermined in 2006 when it emerged that the teenage Grass had served in the Waffen SS. But at the ripe old age of 84, Grass has triggered a furious row with a poem criticising Israel.”

Article and English translation of the poem (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012

Photo: Graeme Robertson

Original version of the poem (in German) (c) SZ, 2012

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Nazism as cheap turn-on?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 29 January 2012 by delclem

“From Ilsa, the She-Wolf of the SS to Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, cinema has long been fascinated by the Nazis – and their link to ‘deviant’ sexuality.”

Article by John Byrne (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2012 Continue reading →

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