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- Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park
Sometimes, it rather surprises me how stupid Europeans can be in their generalizing interpretations of American art and culture. It doesn’t really surprise me to hear that Gus van Sant’s latest film, Paranoid Park, was a big hit in France. The French love cliché representations of Americans - from Baudrillard on down - which they [...]
- You’ll Know What to Do: Vaginal Davis Guides Us into Summer
The maverick terrorist drag artist Vaginal Davis was recently enlisted by the Berlin art academy at Weissensee to submit a select group of students to a sort of week-long avant-garde boot camp, the result of which was a one-off performance, You’ll Know What to Do, which took place last Friday, May 23rd, at the Raumerweiterungshalle, [...]
- Jarman, Julien, Wittgenstein, Martians
Of all the possible mediums he could have chosen, it is somehow curious that Derek Jarman decided to become a filmmaker. He didn’t just do film, of course, but it is for his films that he is best known. Perhaps you get the feeling, when watching some of these movies, that they should have been [...]
