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February 27, 2017

A different kind of moonlight

I’m just another lover of the art of moving pictures, so the Oscars, being about the movie industry, are usually not a place to look for references. Yet, I’m always aware, and I end up finding one or two things worth watching (usually the documentaries). This year, things couldn’t be weirder. Not only is Moonlight an originally brave movie,…

January 9, 2014January 9, 2014

٠ The near distant future through the eyes of Spike Jonze ٠

movie poster Spike Jonze’s new movie “Her” is a must see! First and foremost because it is an original script, both in the sense that it is new and also in the sense that it is unique, thought-provoking. Because the work is Spike’s own vision of the sort of relationships human will develop with machines…

January 29, 2013

┐ The Seventh Continent is everywhere └

September 18, 2012March 10, 2019

┐ “a good marriage requires the absence of plot” └

quote from Nora Ephron, here © Anja Lehmann, permanent caravan park in Spreewald/Brandenburg, Germany, 2002 © Anja Lehmann, permanent caravan park in Rerik, Mecklenburg- Western-Pomerania, Germany, October 2002

August 11, 2012August 11, 2012

┐ Just the Wind └

“With the collapse of the Hungarian economy and government austerity measures, crimes—petty or otherwise—and every other social ill were blamed on the Roma and a lynch-mob atmosphere was whipped up against the community, which only constitutes about 5 percent of the Hungarian population. Homes were fire-bombed and Roma men, women and children shot and killed…