wien

handmade toys by children and viennese art at leopold museum / vienna between the wars at wien museum am karlsplatz / madness and modernity at wien museum / prince eugen at belvedere / staying at my favourite hotel with daily recommendations at the breakfast table (including the lovely waitress warning you: "there is a spelling mistake. it is not 20 degree outside, so do take a jumper)

london

silicon roundabout and no tea at shepherdess cafe / saying hello at what / the gurken from underneath /waking up over bethnal green / candice breitz's twins (factum) at white cube / crossing a useless bridge with anthony / delicious dinner at the ripe tomato surrounded by teenage girls / chatroulette with friends and family / 70ies bday at the cow / victoria and albert exhibition at the buckingham palace / identity exhibition at the wellcome trust / lady delancey exhibition at the sir john soanes museum / decode, quilt and jewellery exhibition at the v&a / farewell dinner at delicious no1, which now has a different name

brüssel

grand place by night / manneken pis with and without clothes, by day and by night / chocolate, vintage and antiques with christine / shopping for african fabrics in waversesteenweg in matonge / driving around the eu buildings with isabella / paper costumes in renaissance style and hearts from all ages / schnickschnack shoppen in kartuizerstraat / mexican art exhibition (frida kahlo was too full, discovered alebrijes instead / one gaufre, no moules frites
unfortunately coudn't make it to felix gonzales-torres, dogs of war

ok go go in one go again

they are just so brilliant. i love it how they incooperated themselves and the sound into this brilliant fischli+weiss setup. big drama.
the other ones they did.

generationenwechsel

"she she pop und ihre väter - TESTAMENT – VERSPÄTETE VORBEREITUNGEN ZUM GENERATIONSWECHSEL – NACH KöNIG LEAR".
theater at its best. eine freie adaption des shakespear klassikers, die elegant die brücke ins hier und jetzt und für mich relevante schlägt, wie ich es so noch nicht gesehen habe. das private ist ausnahmsweise tatsächlich mal für eine öffentlichkeit relevant. die inszenierung der befindlichkeiten des mitte-dreißigjährigen berliner bildungsbürgertums, die ausnahmesweise nicht eine reine nabelschau ist, sondern brisanz und relevanz hat.
bühnenmittel (kostüm mit historischen andeutungen; sesselthrone, projizierte ahnengalerie und gemeinsamer esstisch; musik für emotion und erinnerung und videoprojektion als ausschnitt=vergrößerung von details des bühnengeschehens) zum geringen teil annektiert (wooster group, nature theater of oklahoma) und als eigenes, geschicktes erzählmittel eingesetzt.
und ja, ich hatte nie darüber nachgedacht: es gibt kein ritual, daß für den familiären generationenwechsel als hilfe dienen kann.
zugehört, gelacht, geweint und nachgedacht. eben theater at its best.
reaktionen

berlinale 2010 (done)

son of babylon
neukölln unlimited
tanzträume
wiegenlieder
greenberg
same same but different
besouro
sunny land
red, white and the green
the kids are allright
eine flexible frau
jud süß - film ohne gewissen
putty hill
die haushaltshilfe
wags
claire denis live
...
na pusto
gleb's film
alle meine väter

daydreaming at night

Morning comes upon us
To impose another day
Though I might try to force myself to sleep

Why should i
Face up to another waking day
When there's a chance you'll come to me
In dreams

The world just keeps right on
Turning anyway
While I stay home and watch the shadow play

Innocence is lost into the dark
If I were dynamite would you provide the spark?

traces left behind

"vogelfrei" - i had seen that film as a teenager and all i can remember is, that it impressed and irritated me a lot and that it was about this landstreicher, this girl on the road, who would never say "thanks" or "please".
a guy i vaguely knew but liked a lot, had recommended it to me. together with "zementgarten" and "tee im harem des archimedes" - (and "birdie" but i did not like that one so much). i didn't really know that guy, we hardly saw eachother, sometimes bumped into eachother at a party or a concert of the local band. i cannot even recall his name. but he left a mark, a quiet one, a beautiful one. and so i had to think about other people i met at some point in my life, who were important for a while and to a certain degree shaped the way i perceive the world. and i don't have a clue where they are now, what they do, if they are still alive.

two days ago i found out by chance, that this film will be screened at a cinema nearby, that the original title is "sans toit ni loi" that it is by wonderful agnes varda, who was also there in person, and stars young sandrine bonnaire. saskia walker did the interview after the screening, a transcript can be found in revolver 24.
the film starts with the girl lying dead at the side of the road. in the voice-over varda says: "since nobody claimed the body, it was burried at the local cementary. this victim of a natural death did not leave a trace. i ask myself who of those who knew her as a child still remember her. the people who recently met her, do remember her. and with the help of their statments i can recount the last few weeks of her life. they were all impressed by her. when they spoke about her, they did not know that she was dead. i did not tell them and also did not mention her name: mona berger. i myself know little about her. but i believe she came from the sea."
a film about what it takes and what it means to be independent. and whether independence and freedom are the same. and how far you can go before it kills you.

a song written for a friend who had died

Mais c'est la mort
Qui t'a assassinée Marcia
C'est la mort
Tu t'es consumée Marcia
C'est le cancer
Que tu as pris sous ton bras
Maintenant tu es en cendres, cendres
La mort c'est comme une chose impossible pour toi
Qui est la vie même Marcia
Et même à toi
Qui est forte comme une fusée
C'est la mort qui t'a emmenée
Marcia Marcia Marcia Marcia Marcia

william lamson

beautiful work. these are my favourites:
emerge
vital capacity
levitation excercise
and interventions.
reminds me of harrison and wood. and of course roman signer.
via david

i like it

love = respect+admiration+trust

...says hal hartley.

watching movies

1.1.10: wanted to watch "fantastic mr fox" at the cinema and then realized that it will not be released until may.
watched "squid and the whale" on dvd instead, not realising (until i was looking for background information about it online) that it was made by the same bunch of people.
dialogues in "squid and the whale" feel like daniel nocke met hal hartley.
"margot at the wedding" seemed more original to me. both are by noah baumbach.

merry, happy usw

strange in a beautiful way or the other way round

"not looking to judge or manipulate. but looking to learn, or support or evolve."

interesting talk (after min 10) which cannot be embedded.
more thoughts by dannah.
and about jane jacobs.

white noise

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.5 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

by zimoun

chinese animation

belladona of sadness

there is someone having fun