There is this beautiful twist in the end, whereas Robert doesn't get stuck in Berlin and goes to India. The first images show a train ride with people and kids sleeping. The camera starts to be creepy and seems to be too close to everything. This intensifies on the ship graveyard, where the camera is comically close to its subjects. Even scanning the body and arm from a worker that seems to be a teenager who is noticeably uncomfortable and smiling irritated.
Helga Reidemeister - Lichter aus dem Hintergrund
06.10.2024
Conversation with Amy Sillman: Drawing in the Continuous Present
19.09.2024
Henrik Olesen at Galerie Buchholz Cologne
very visceral works by Henrik Olesen in a show that seems so simple that its hard to understand why these pieces linger for so long. The plugs with their human-like height and wobbly power cords add a strange physicality to the body/organ/intestine paintings.
Henrik Olesen at Galerie Buchholz
from top to bottom and left to right:
'floor plan'
installation view
intestine, blue, 2020 / oil and mixed media on wood / 47 x 39.5 x 2 cm
intestine, black and white, 2020 / oil and mixed media on wood / 40 x 55 x 2 cm
intestine, red, 2020 / oil and mixed media on wood / 48.5 x 40 x 2 cm
intestine, red, black, 2020 / oil and mixed media on wood / 42.5 x 52.5 x 2 cm / sticker: 42 x 29.7 cm / plug board: 144,5 x 37 x 22 cm
Body of Shit, 2020 / oil and mixed media on wood / 46.5 x 55 x 2.5 cm
01.07.2020
Killing Eve Costumes
Killing Eve
stills from s1-3
30.06.2020
Lacan's Lecture about Hamlet. He reads Hamlet as the Drama of Desire and compares it to Oedipus. He also neglects moral questions, which I think is on point as it is obvious for Hamlet what has to be done and asking yourself if it is just, leads nowhere. The question then becomes, why doesnt he do it already.
https://lacan-entziffern.de/graph-des-begehrens/jacques-lacan-vorlesungen-ueber-hamlet/
11.06.2020
listened (after reading it ages ago) to Bret Easton Ellis Glamorama (narrated by Jonathan Davis)
A good text about Glamorama from Sheli Ayers here.
(Glamorama Vanitas: Bret Easton Ellis's Postmodern Allegory)
Not sure if I agree with Ayers about what part technology plays in Glamorama, but especially her notions about Vanitas and textual effects I like a lot.
from that text:
"To say that Glamorama is a novel would be misleading. Although Ellis plays with and against the conventions of the first-person Bildungsroman, Glamorama is less a novel than a system of textual effects analogous to other scripted spaces: themed architecture, animated digital games, and special-effects films."
"Glamorama may invite decipherment, but it operates mainly on the level of ineluctable confusion. Just as the seventeenth-century Vanitas signified uncertainty of the senses--life as dream and illusion--Glamorama invites the contemplation of a confused reality."
17.05.2020
Akira Kurosawa - The Bad Sleep Well
Two very interesting texts by Kaori Ashizu about The Bad Sleep Well: Kurosawa’s Hamlet? and Hamlet in Japan: What’s Hamlet to Japan?
The opening scene shows a wedding between the main charakter Nishi and Yoshiko. It serves as a introduction to the plot whereas Nishi works his way up inside the Dairu cooperation by marrying Iwabuchi's daugther. We later get to know that he plots to revenge his fathers murder.
Kurosawa manages to describe characters and the setup for the plot at the same time, by having the company-wedding be interrupted and commented by journalists.
These watching and narrating journalists amplify the allegoric and abstract feel of the opening scene as I can see them observing a play inside a play.
This scene shows Iwabuchi get cornered by the press about a suicide that coveres up wrongdoings by Dairu cooperation.
Kurasawa's images literally pressure Iwabuchi and manage to twist in a minute long scene. Iwabuchi's pose and Kurasawa's composition change from cornered to certain whilst Iwabuchi reframes the suicide as a result of the police's investigation in his company.
Iwabuchi and his right hand Moriyama on the funeral of one the victims of their crimes. A lot of scenes depict two opposing notions. Often the images Kurosawa builds use scene-blocking, framing and composition as negotiator between these notions.
This scene shows one of Kurosawa's deliberate compositions. Nishi and Tatsuo (Yoshiko's brother) talk about Iwabuchi.
Iwabuchi and Moriyama try to get rid of lose ends by cornering Shirai.
The last scenes that help rethink the plot not only through the characters development, but as characters in a bureaucratic world. Mirrored compositions of Nishi and Iwabuchi to end the movie.
Stills from Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well
28.04.2020
Jutta Koether (Demonic Options, 2005 & Souveraine, 2008 & DIE SEELE ZWISCHEN HIMMEL UND HÖLLE 2, 2008)
Juan Jose Ryp (Black Summer)
Text: Aaron Schuster - The Trouble with Pleasure (S.54 & S.77)
11.04.2020
Imi Knoebel - Genter Raum & Joseph Beuys - Fond
08.04.2020