Florian Weigl

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Favorite films

  • All My Life
  • I Spit on Your Grave
  • Occupied Palestine
  • Willie

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  • Traces of Movement Before the Ice

  • Manche hatten Krokodile

  • I'm Not Everything I Want to Be

    ★★½

  • Commando

    ★★★

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  • Manche hatten Krokodile

    Manche hatten Krokodile

    I help out in this small, leftist archive in Hamburg whose core team ranges from mid 50s to early 70s and sometimes they just have a little film evening which means that they have some of their friends over and gather in front of a laptop and watch docs like this.

    Just a beautiful, tender bit of borough ethnography. Seen about 40 min and still haven't really figured out what a Sparclub is or how exactly it works, but this…

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★

    Could just be misreading the intent here, but all the talk about the broader allegorical implications seems to miscalculate the POV here. This is a bildungsreise in that the animals learn that a disruption of their image – the seismic ripples in the pond kickstarting a cyclical tidal wave – will lead to disruption of their habitat and the need to adapt. I don’t think a cat can conceive of the climate crisis the same way we can, nor do…

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    Wrote about the sole Palestinian film in the program. Want to note that this was also the only screening so far for which I saw four cops in the foyer of the cinema.

  • MS Slavic 7

    MS Slavic 7

    ★★★★

    Five years ago after an internship in a literary archive, I stayed for another half year as a freelancer and indexed and catalogued the estate of an author we recently acquired, an estate which also included a box of love letters. As I was reading the correspondence, I found it impossible not to get attached to them emotionally - and at the same time it felt like a breach of trust. The letters are so naked, so vulnerable, the writer…