Mirror mirror by 18 Carat Affair
18 Carat Affair is the image enterprise of artist/musician Denys Parker. Using Betamax tapes, synthesizers, and drum machines. 18K creates short tape-spliced collages of saturated pop.
18 Carat Affair is the image enterprise of artist/musician Denys Parker. Using Betamax tapes, synthesizers, and drum machines. 18K creates short tape-spliced collages of saturated pop.
Die Welle (The Wave) is a 2008 German film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich and Max Riemelt in the leads. The film shows the story of High school teacher Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel), who… Continue Reading
Bitter Moon is a 1992 Franco-British-American romantic thriller film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote. The film crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of… Continue Reading
TEEEL (Jim Smith) is an electronic music producer/songwriter from New Jersey, founder of Synth Records (Synthemesc Recordings) and iheartsynths.com. Inspired by the 80s new wave movement, Teeel credits his sound to marathon movie watching and being an obsessive gear head.… Continue Reading
The Dreamers is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay is by Gilbert Adair, based on his own novel The Holy Innocents. An international co-production by companies from France, the United Kingdom, and Italy, the film… Continue Reading
Blow-Up is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he may have witnessed a murder and unwittingly taken photographs of the killing. It was Antonioni’s first entirely English-language film. The plot was… Continue Reading
After a big night, a girl wakes to find her self in bed with a regretful one night stand. She does what ever she can to escape without waking him up.
Die Antwoord is a South African rap-rave band formed in Cape Town in 2008, consisting of performers Ninja, Yo-Landi Visser, and DJ Hi-Tek. Their debut album $O$ was made available as a free download on the website. In 2009 South… Continue Reading
Gegen die Wand (Head-On in the english version) is a 2004 German-Turkish drama film written and directed by Fatih Akın. A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story.… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the third five-book instalment: Fahr zu… Continue Reading
A compilation of some of my favourite graffiti characters that I found on the streets of Berlin, Prague, Florence, Venice, Düsseldorf and Cologne. Some are very minimalistic and even childish and others are very clever and elaborated. More to come… Continue Reading
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, in which upon admittance to a mental institution, McMurphy, a… Continue Reading
The Fly is a 1986 American science fiction horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz; and tells the story of a brilliant but eccentric scientist, who begins to transform into… Continue Reading
Dennis is one of those rare short films that creates a strong identification with a protagonist we rarely see in films. Dennis is played by Kim Kold, who with great subtlety shows us the deep longing underneath all that muscle.… Continue Reading
Twin Sister is an American band from Long Island. Their music has been described as chill wave, indie pop, dream pop, and disco. They have been compared to Cocteau Twins and Portishead. They have toured the US and Europe and… Continue Reading
10 Timer til Paradis (Teddy Bear) is a 2012 Danish film starring Kim Kold as a Danish bodybuilder who travels to Thailand to find love. The film was directed by Mads Matthiesen and written by Matthiesen and Martin Zandvliet. Teddy… Continue Reading
37°2 le matin (Betty Blue) is a 1986 French film about Zorg, a handyman working in France, maintaining and looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. One day Betty walks… Continue Reading
Sweet is an early collaboration of The Mighty Boosh comedy duo Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, and is featured in the extras of the Mighty Boosh series 2 DVD. It is a 2000 short film directed by James Pilkington and… Continue Reading
This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates how their subculture, which has its roots in 1960s West Indian culture,… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the second five-book instalment:
The Warriors is a 1979 American cult action thriller drama film directed by Walter Hill and based on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of the same name. Like the novel, the film borrows elements from the Anabasis by Xenophon. The film opened… Continue Reading
The Broken Circle Breakdown is a 2012 Belgian drama film directed by Felix Van Groeningen.The film is set in Ghent, Belgium, where Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop… Continue Reading
Shame is a 2011 British drama film cowritten and directed by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. It was coproduced by Film4 and See-Saw Films. The film’s explicit sexual scenes regarding sexual addiction resulted in it being rated… Continue Reading
Import/Export is an Austrian film by the director Ulrich Seidl from 2007. It was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix – Golden Apricot reward at the Yerevan International Film Festival.… Continue Reading
Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue or Sun Alley) is a 1999 comedy film about life in East Berlin the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann and it was released shortly before the corresponding novel, Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenalle (At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee).… Continue Reading
While riding the tram over the last weeks, I found myself observing what people read and decided to start a compilation of the different genres and authors found in the public transport. This is the first 5-book instalment:
Zwei Mütter (Two Mothers) is an intense exploration of the trials and tribulations a same sex couple encounters in their desire to become loving parents. Katja and Isabella are happily married and feel the time is right to have a… Continue Reading