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…
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…
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.
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…
