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8 Nov 2004 · Blog | Film

Holland Animation Film Festival 2004

Every other year the Holland Animation Film Festival shows a selection of some of the best independent animation films of the past two or three years as well as a number of retrospectives and thematic programs. Here are some personal highlights of this year's festival.

18 Oct 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Frank Castorf: Endstation Amerika

Somehow everything fits together in "Endstation Amerika" by Frank Castorf. Stage design, text, music, acting. This is why I go to the theatre.

17 Oct 2004 · Blog | Art

Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof

It's been awhile since I spent half a day at an exhibition of contemporary art without feeling exhausted and wishing I could stay longer. At 13,000 square meters the Friedrich Christian Flick collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin is about as large as the Documenta in Kassel.

17 Oct 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Frank Castorf: Forever Young

It doesn't happen often that I go and see the same play twice. In Frank Castorf's stage productions there is usually so much going on that going to see it twice is almost required to take it all in.

19 Sep 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Forced Entertainment: Bloody Mess

It is funny. Very funny. Very very funny. But after a while it gets boring. Very boring. But then it gets funny again. Very funny. So funny that you have to laugh. This is what you do when things are funny, especially when they are very funny, not to mention when they are very very funny.

14 Sep 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Frank Castorf: Erniedrigte und Beleidigte

Watching Frank Castorf's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "Erniedrigte und Beleidigte" feels like being invited to a family party where everybody knows each other, but nobody knows you.

14 Sep 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Rene Pollesch: Pablo in der Plusfiliale

How should I integrate this into my sexuality? If you want to fuck globalisation, technology and the neo-liberal rhetoric of the new left, you have to deconstruct the whole notion of sexuality.

5 Sep 2004 · Blog | Art

Donald Judd at the Kunstsammlung Nordrheinwestfalen

Tell me, what is so interesting about those bloody boxes?

8 Aug 2004 · Blog | Art

Paul McCarthy: Brain Box Dream Box

Rubbing it in is what Paul McCarthy does, whether with paint, ketchup or chocolate sauce. Excess is the name of his game. McCarthy likes pushing things too far, in his drawings, but most of all in his performances, which always end up a complete mess.

27 Jun 2004 · Blog | Theatre