diasperdidos

hallcoll

2009-01-02T04:46:00.000-08:00

winterwalkVideo

2008-12-21T07:28:00.000-08:00

chairs

2008-12-15T21:31:00.001-08:00

object

2008-12-15T21:11:00.000-08:00

MOVIE NIGHTS

2008-09-23T17:13:00.001-07:00

THURSDAY, NOV 13th
227 Herter Hall
7:00 PM

No film this week - but I recommend everyone to see Rainer Simon's
'The Woman and the Stranger' at 227 Herter Hall this Thursday!

more on Rainer Simon's Filmmaker's Tour 2008 can be found at:

http://www.umass.edu/defa/filmtour/rainersimon2008.shtml

NOVEMBER 6th, 8PM

The Murderers are Amongst Us

Original Title: Die Moerder sind unter uns

Soviet Sector, 1946, 81 min., b/w

Dir. & Script: Wolfgang Staudte
Camera: Friedl Behn-Grund
Editing: Hans Heinrich
Music: Ernst Roters
Cast: Hildegard Knef (Susanne Wallner), Ernst Wilhelm Borchert (Dr. Mertens), Arno Paulsen (Herr Brückner), Erna Sellmer, Robert Forsch.

Synopsis:
The Murderers Are among Us, the first German postwar film, for many years set the tone for the discussion of German guilt and atonement. Its lack of explicit references to Jews and their fate at the hands of the Nazis speaks to the state of the postwar German psyche.

His body intact, but mentally broken, the German Dr. Mertens returns home from the war only to find Berlin in ruins. As Mertens drowns his depression in alcohol, not even his much-needed skills as a doctor can draw him out of his cocoon of despair and immobility. Self-imposed isolation keeps Mertens from participating in the slow rebuilding of Berlin, the ruins of which reflect his inner feeling of hopelessness. He takes over a half-destroyed apartment as a squatter and cannot find the energy or the motivation to clean away the rubble inside. The apartment, however, belongs to Susanne Wallner, who returns home from a concentration camp where she had been sent by the Nazis for ties to communism. Like Mertens, she finds the city and the apartment in ruins. Wallner cleans up the apartment despite Mertens’ resistance and offers to share the space with him. Mertens, meanwhile, has found his former commander in Berlin; Captain Brückner is now the manager of a factory where army helmets are turned into pots and pans. During the war, Mertens had stood by as Brückner ordered the killing of civilians. These memories are at the root of Mertens’ trauma and anger. Brückner is wealthy and successful in postwar society and does not understand Mertens’ bitterness. Dr. Mertens holds Brückner personally responsible for his trauma and seeks revenge. Only at the last minute can Wallner stop the man she loves from killing his nemesis; she reminds Mertens that it is their obligation to bring criminals to justice, but not to deliver judgment.

more at the DEFA Film Library website

OCTOBER 23rd, 8PM

Berlin - Schoenhauser Corner

Original Title: Berlin - Ecke Schoenhauser

East Germany, 1957, 82 min., b/w

Synopsis:
They are East Berlin teenagers. They want to be free – to dance to rock’n’roll, trade forbidden Western goods and get away from the constraints of their parents and the state. This classic 1950’s teen cult film – which stars Bertolt Brecht's son-in-law, Ekkehard Schall – is a perceptive social portrayal of a city in which political and economic division affects the entire population. Although the film became a box-office hit and was greeted with suspicion by East German officials. Ranked by film critics among Germany’s 100 Most Important Films, this Kohlhaase-Klein collaboration makes an important contribution to the international youth film genre.

Archive:

OCTOBER 16th, 8PM

TRACE OF STONES

East Germany, 1966, 139 min., b/w
Director: Frank Beyer

Synopsis:

This East German story of a party leader in disgrace and a cynical leader of a worker brigade offered only the mildest criticism of the communist system, but was barred from being shown when it was made in 1966. Not only that, but its director Frank Beyer was forbidden to make films for a decade. In the story, a married Communist party secretary (i.e., a government big-wig) with a family of his own has fallen into disgrace as a result of having an affair with a young women and getting her pregnant. Consequently, he is accused of "immoral behavior, careerism and political and ideological failure." Strong, if puzzling words. Another type of man entirely is also in love with the young woman. He is the "brigade leader" (foreman) of a construction crew. His cynicism about the party's role in the workplace is possibly one of the reasons the film was banned until 1990.
Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

OCTOBER 9th, 8PM

THE LEGEND OF PAUL AND PAULA

East Germany, 1973, 105 min., b/w - color
Director: Heiner Carow

Synopsis:

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.

About the East German Film Nights

This series of films from East Germany will circle around the question
of how architecture was used to create an image or reflect the image of a 'new society'.
The first film will be the last one so to speak ('The Architects' from 1990)
and from there on it will gradually go back in time until the early years of the GDR.
These screenings are part of my thesis project, which will also deal with the above mentioned issues.

OCTOBER 2nd, 8PM

SOLO SUNNY

East Germany, 1980, 102 min., color
Director: Konrad Wolf

Synopsis:
Sunny (Renate Krößner, Go for Zucker), an aspiring singer, longs to be happy and recognized as someone special. Sunny gets kicked out of the band, but starts over in the "underground" scene of Prenzlauer Berg in East Berlin. Based on a true story, this smash hit by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase addressed the longings and frustrations of East German youth. The film also captures the East German “70’s style” in its gritty-glitzy visuals and its catchy soundtrack. Solo Sunny is ranked by film critics among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time.

Sept, 25 th The Architects

Synopsis:
Daniel feels like a stranger in his own land. His architectural plans for a new development have been rejected for not complying with standardized designs. His colleagues decide to leave Daniel to himself. Even Daniel's wife, Wanda, is despondent and wants to move westwards with her daughter like so many others. Daniel is left to wonder what happened to his country and its people in the years before 1989. A bitter cinema drama.

my first sony

2008-08-07T23:37:00.000-07:00

my sony and i

deux cafetieres
frigo
title

xbxroads

2008-07-23T21:47:00.000-07:00

old video, different music

Sweeny Todd Stage Design

2008-05-22T15:42:00.000-07:00

City of Angels

2008-05-22T15:33:00.000-07:00

crab crab attack!

2008-02-22T10:51:00.001-08:00

stop the bomb

2008-01-17T15:54:00.000-08:00

fall winter in mass

2007-12-10T09:18:00.000-08:00

us, ma and before (7)

2007-11-11T21:34:00.000-08:00

us, ma and before (6)

2007-11-11T21:32:00.001-08:00

us, ma and before (5)

2007-11-11T21:32:00.000-08:00

us, ma and before (4)

2007-11-11T21:31:00.000-08:00

us, ma and before (3)

2007-11-11T21:30:00.000-08:00

us, ma and before (2)

2007-11-11T21:29:00.000-08:00

us, ma and before

2007-11-11T21:26:00.000-08:00

death in the studio

2007-11-11T21:14:00.000-08:00

by tj 2007

collected works

2007-08-02T07:02:00.001-07:00

my portfolio

my flyer

my cv

everynothing

2007-03-24T17:22:00.000-07:00

lost my job, found inspiration and time to kill

2007-02-24T18:47:00.000-08:00

ly, winter 07

japanese style

2006-10-01T04:33:00.000-07:00

tokyo-berlin sept 2006

2006-08-20T06:55:00.000-07:00

are we getting old?

2006-08-03T05:20:00.000-07:00

last weekend my best mate, i've known him since kindergarden, got married. he's the first of my friends to be doing this, and somehow it makes me feel that we are getting old somehow. not that it is a sign of maturity or age but its a thing that the grown ups just used to do, and now it seems like it's our turn. well definetely not mine, but it's still pretty unreal...

peter cooks

2006-05-02T14:43:00.000-07:00

2006-04-26T01:57:00.000-07:00

so i painted my room!!!!!

2006-04-23T18:46:00.000-07:00

'zabourg', sept 2005
if you'd like to see more clips of me, visit randomgall.blogspot.com

2006-04-23T17:50:00.000-07:00

winter trainride, feb 2006

2006-04-23T13:11:00.001-07:00

click on image to view video

2006-04-23T09:33:00.000-07:00

first attempts in web hosting.....jonas' birthday........................

2006-04-15T04:15:00.000-07:00

for all of you who think holidays are a bit out-dated, here's a proof:
THEY ARE NOT, YO! click on image....

2006-04-15T04:11:00.000-07:00

spring's finally there.....april 15th 2006

2006-04-15T03:59:00.000-07:00

my new neighborhood, april 14th 2006

2006-04-13T13:16:00.000-07:00

april 12th, 2006

2006-04-11T12:36:00.000-07:00

so, the last five days me and my mate julian went to budapest and our friends showed us around and it was awesome!!! budapest is a beautiful city, really modern but still a sort of european urbanity that you don't find too often anymore. i know i will be back soon! i could write a lot more but instead i will post a few more pictures the next days....

sweater song

2006-03-31T00:22:00.000-08:00

i want that sweater! it's fuckin awesome, dudes!

2006-03-30T08:00:00.000-08:00

ages since i posted.....

this one is really worth looking at! for all of you in graphics this is a must!

by the way this is my first link written in htlm!

2006-03-15T10:27:00.000-08:00

from the nypost.....hehe....nice one

2006-03-03T07:43:00.000-08:00

nerede geliyorsun?

2006-03-03T02:22:00.000-08:00

ist.tr, feb 06

istangulls, april 06

2006-03-02T06:31:00.000-08:00

'manwalk', istanbul, feb 06

2006-03-02T06:24:00.000-08:00

photolution, istanbul, feb 06

2006-03-01T16:03:00.000-08:00

2006-02-10T05:21:00.000-08:00

little rocks...(the previous post....)

2006-02-10T01:48:00.000-08:00

of course.....

2006-02-06T10:09:00.000-08:00

bln feb 06

Get out of our lives, fanatics

2006-02-06T09:56:00.000-08:00

very worth reading these days

Get out of our lives, fanatics

By Yossi Sarid

I would like to see this article as a type of Israeli contribution to the struggle for freedom of _expression that is now taking place all over Europe.

The fanatics of the world have united, and the soul is already tired of these fundamentalists, wherever they are, whether there or here. They interfere in our lives and embitter them, the fanatics, and woe betide us if we show signs of fear or weakness. They will not rest or give up until they cause paralysis, and until they run our lives according to their ideas.

None of us can or wants to be responsible for all the members of his nation and his religion. We are not responsible for being emissaries, but we will not flee from the responsibility of telling it like it is, out loud, rather than whispering in the corridors.

We will say it aloud to the religious female settler who didn't identify herself by name, when she was interviewed by Uri Goldstein on Channel 1. She told Goldstein - I swear this is the truth - that "the Nazis were more elegant than the policemen in Amona, because the Nazis at least didn't beat Jews with truncheons." Oh, settler, what do we have in common with you? Get up and leave, and may the devil take you.

And in the same loud and clear voice, we will turn to the fanatic Muslims, from Gaza to Jakarta, the life-long partners and fellow travelers of that settler and her spiritual mentors, and say: Get out of our lives, too. The soul is not only tired, it has become strained by your threats and your harassment.

A great Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in September, and the Muslim world is all aboil. After threats to the editors and employees of the newspaper were heard from all directions, many newspapers in Europe, both on the right and on the left, decided to publish the same cartoons, as a sign of identification with the Danes and with their battle for freedom of _expression. Since last week, the French and the Germans and the Norwegians and the Italians and the Spanish and the Dutch and the Swiss are no longer immune, either - they are all in mortal danger from now on.

Fundamentalist-type threats are usually not baseless: Just as they threatened Yitzhak Rabin with murder and murdered him, the Ayatollah Khomeini in his time threatened author Salman Rushdie, who was saved from assassination only by a miracle. And two years ago, a Dutch film director, Theo Van Gogh, was murdered for the crime of his film "Submission," which condemned violence against women in Muslim societies.

I don't like the cartoons in Jyllands-Posten; it's a matter of taste. But I very much like the newspaper's fight for its right to publish them, and that is no longer a matter of taste, but a world view: Mohammed is not sacred and Moses is not sacred and Jesus is not sacred; only the lives of human beings, believers and secular people alike, are sacred.

Freedom of _expression is reserved both for the insulters and the insulted. And if the insult is too great to bear, the courts are always open to hear the bitter complaint - and to accept or reject it. Censure after the fact for hurting people's feelings is accepted by civilized people, but definitely not censorship in advance, and certainly not by means of the rabble.

And who are all the fanatics who were so deeply insulted? The Syrians and the Iranians and the Saudis and the Libyans and Hezbollah, who have already protested strenuously, have fomented violent riots and imposed boycotts. They are demanding an immediate apology from European governments, as though in civilized nations government leaders are also the editors of the newspapers, as is common in this region.

An ironic twist: A moment before I became excited about the Syrian, Iranian, Saudi and Libyan uprisings, I recalled the films produced in these sensitive countries, which were based on the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." When rabbis were seen there slaughtering Arab children, the imams remained silent; they didn't even whisper as their responsibility should have dictated.

It's not nice to insult their prophet, Mohammed, but what hasn't the free world done to its own prophets, what haven't we done to our own prophets? Last week, the French newspaper France Soire published a cartoon that depicts the gods of the Jews and the Christians and the Muslims and the Buddhists sitting on a cloud. And the God of the Christians is seen saying: "Don't complain, Mohammed. We have all been victims of cartoons before you." And our patriarchs, Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and our four matriarchs, and judges and kings and prophets, early and late, will also testify to the abuse that they have suffered in our research studies, our books and our articles. Not only prophets and priests. God himself has not had an easy time with us. And the heretics among us have even cast doubt on his very existence - God forbid - and especially after the Holocaust, which the Nazis imposed on us. The Nazis who in the eyes of certain settlers were more "elegant" than Israel's policemen. No, we have no more sympathy for the lunatic Muslims than we have for Jews suffering from a similar phenomenon, and vice versa.

Both will probably continue to go crazy. And we, the free people, must remember: If newspapers have to be edited according to the "Shulhan Arukh" (code of law) of every faith and religion, we won't even find newspapers worthy of their name in which to wrap herring.

2006-02-06T09:51:00.000-08:00

ouch

2006-02-05T04:12:00.000-08:00

the weight on architecture....

2006-02-05T04:09:00.000-08:00

eve of destruction

my unis studios friday, feb 3rd

2006-02-02T08:39:00.000-08:00

freedom of speech

and by the way, whose cartoons are offensive?

2006-01-30T09:22:00.000-08:00

grid, bln jan 06

2006-01-27T11:10:00.000-08:00

the rebbe and the scholar

bln jan 06

2006-01-27T09:02:00.000-08:00

email of the day

don't need no explanation!

Hi Tobias,
ok.
Danke,
Paola
> hi paola!
>
> hab deine email uebersehen, grosses sorry!
> werd mit julian gleich noch mal schauen ob du noch im
> buero bist. t
>
>
>

2006-01-23T08:36:00.000-08:00

conceptsheet, jan 2006

2006-01-23T08:35:00.000-08:00

bln, oct 2005

2006-01-23T08:29:00.000-08:00

bln, oct 2005

2006-01-23T08:24:00.000-08:00

bln, oct 2005

2006-01-19T09:18:00.000-08:00

bln, dec 06

2006-01-19T08:48:00.000-08:00

socialist infrastructures

"lined up"

2006-01-18T05:25:00.000-08:00

flyer by mum

typocollage of my sister theresa

so we had this little family exhibition in the village where my parents moved two years ago. although totally unimportant, like no one would go there and discover you, it's been fun and worth the effort, especially all the nerves lost to my lovely families chaos.
more images soon...

that's how the press saw it

more of theresa

the 'gallery'

poem and illustration coretta and mum

the curator

2006-01-15T14:38:00.000-08:00

2006-01-15T14:37:00.000-08:00

2006-01-12T08:10:00.000-08:00

2006-01-12T06:36:00.000-08:00

2006-01-12T06:28:00.000-08:00

2006-01-12T06:18:00.000-08:00

2006-01-12T06:16:00.000-08:00

2006-01-11T09:45:00.000-08:00

2006-01-11T09:35:00.000-08:00

rishon

2006-01-11T08:53:00.000-08:00

well yeah