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3. PORN FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN: The Last Day
by Travis Jeppesen on October 27, 2008
The 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin reached its ecstatic climax last night with a screening of Claudette, winner of the Maleflixx.TV Award for Best Gay Film at this year’s festival – even though it’s not a gay film or even (…)
Todd Verow at 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 26, 2008
I have to admit that I haven’t seen any of Todd Verow’s previous films, but I admire the abrasive, fuck-you aesthetic you find in his latest, Where Your Heart Should Be, which received its world premiere last night at the (…)
Katharina Klewinghaus at 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 26, 2008
As someone who was addicted to slasher films as a child in the 1980s, and who went on to read a ton of feminist and queer theory at university in the 1990s, I’ve long been fascinated with the contradictory ways (…)
Charles Lum at the 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 25, 2008
One of the highlights of this year’s Porn Film Festival was last night’s screening of a suite of short films by Charles Lum, The HIV Collection. Taken together, the films form a fractured feature of sorts that sustains itself thematically (…)
Ayse Erkmen at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 6, 2008
If minimal art has any importance, it’s in making us notice things that we wouldn’t otherwise. Ayse Erkmen has this figured out. She gives us an art that is barely there. What is it that Gertrude Stein once wrote – (…)
Jeremiah Palecek
by Travis Jeppesen on September 14, 2008
My review of Jeremiah Palecek’s Berlin show is now online – check it out.
A Report from ABC – Art Berlin Contemporary
by Travis Jeppesen on September 6, 2008
By now, anyone who has resided in Berlin for any length of time can tell you that all of this city’s “major art events” are the same. You tend to see, if not the same artists, then the same sort (…)
Ricarda Roggan at Kunst-Werke, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on September 2, 2008
Ricarda Roggan: Still Life KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Through September 7th There’s still time to see Ricarda Roggan’s show before it closes, and it’s worth the effort. Although her work might be overshadowed by the fact that Richard (…)
Of Kids and Parents
by Travis Jeppesen on August 31, 2008
Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl, translated from the Czech by Marek Tomin (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2008) Twisted Spoon’s latest publication, a translation of Emil Hakl’s Of Kids and Parents, is a simple novel, if any novel can (…)
Schloss Tegal – The Myth of Meat (Tegal Records, 2008)
by Travis Jeppesen on August 25, 2008
Schloss Tegal continues to explore the absolute outer regions of “human” experience, with every recording and live action they issue. I put human in quotation marks because, on The Myth of Meat, their latest release, they manage to forge the (…)
