Erwin Wagenhofer’s Let’s Make Money is a film about the financial crisis that takes a look at the conduct and consequences of worldwide financial transactions. The film came out in September, a successor to his previous documentary We Feed the World, which focused on the globalization of food production.
After three years of research around the globe, Wagenhofer returns to reveal capitalism’s…
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Jacques Tati, as this piece will explore, is an early participant of the proto-postfordist avant garde in the middle of the 20th century. Film critics often misunderstand Tati’s work as a criticism of civilization and a denunciation of the unreasonable demand of modernism. They especially misinterpreted Tati’s first feature film, Jour de Fête, in this way, due to its idyllic framework (and, above…
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The past doesn’t determine the blossoming of international cultural contacts: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) in the tradition famous US inventors, broke off his technical studies in Graz because of nationalistic trash talk. The German nationalist-dominated student community was less than pleased with that talented Serb from Gospić. Hollywood director Otto Preminger (1906-1986) carried with him bad…
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Performing the Performative. Gini Müller : Possen des Performativen. Book Review Theater, activism and queer politics 184 pages Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2008
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“Children’s books... bound children’s books?” the customs officer on the Czech-Austrian border asks Nicolas Mahler and Heinz Wolf. The two independent publishers of Edition Brunft, which they’ve produced in Czech, are trying to check 2000 copies through customs. “Actually, they’re comics,” says Wolf. “Comics,” the official repeats while taking a quick look through the book. “What’s it good for?”…
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Chapter 1 - Tossing Records at Evil - At the start of the new millennium, I am sitting in my favorite club, Rhiz, famed as one of the testing-grounds for experimental electronic music in the 1990s. On stage: a giant angularly-formed skull made of Styrofoam hangs from above, its horns point evilly upward. At the front of the stage: a white guy dressed in a tunic-like garment and a black plastic…
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