Articles
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Kultivator – Barndomens Stigar
Kultivator is a Swedish band as unique as unclassifiable. This was formed in ’78 by the nucleus of Tunnelbanan a symphonic prog rock band highly influenced by Yes and Genesis, in addition with guitarist Jonas Linge whose playing is reminiscent of Phil Miller and the soprano Ingemo Rylander. The LP named “Barndomens Stigar” recorded in…
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[Virginia Woolf] – Craftsmanship
…Words,English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today – that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories,…
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Absence: A compilation of experimental music by Iranian artists.
Faced with the task of writing about artists from Iran it is tempting to oversimplify and go with the easiest way to address them — the way most western media has always treated art coming not just from Iran but from middle east in general. This approach places artists exclusively within the political context presented…
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The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine In the Time of Nazis
Here are the erotic writings of a Jewish lesbian who met fame in Germany before and during the Nazi era.
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Letters from a Dead Man
“Pisma myortvogo cheloveka” screen evening in Avam Kahvesi, Kadıköy, Istanbul. Konstantin Lopushansky, who worked on Tarkovsky’s Stalker as well as making the brilliant Strugatsky brothers adaptation Gadkie Lebedi (Ugly Swans) is in fine form here. Letters from a Dead Man (Письма мёртвого человека) is filled with silent, stoic despair as only those behind the iron…
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Women’s solidarity: Chantal Akerman in focus at Filmmor
Belgian director Chantal Akerman will be remembered with a 15-film retrospective at the 14th Filmmor International Women’s Film Festival.
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Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
A film by Marta Popivoda, Serbia / France / Germany, 62 min / 2013