October 2008
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Brazilian Poetry in Translation →
Hilda Hilst
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Mesu Kasumai from 8bitpeoples →
nice 8bit music
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T.S.A. Communication →
T.S.A. Communication is a project that alters the airport security experience and allows the government to learn more about you then just what’s in your backpack. Thin 8.5 x 11 inch laser-cut sheets of stainless steel comfortably fit in your carry on bag, simultaneously obscuring the contents you don’t want the TSA to see while highlighting ideas you do want them to see. Change your...
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“They’re the accused and abused, and yet Menkes never lapses into mournful...”
– Crazy Bloody Female Center: The Cinema of Nina Menkes
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The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983)
This movie is the first real approach of Nina Menkes to show detachment and alienation. The Movie has many layers of emotions, the sound, the images, the environment, the people and Tinka Menkes. The Book of Job guides us, connects us, try’s to explain what is happening in the images. We always watch, we are always the voyeur and we never participate, we never have a voice. The Camera is...
Shadow Feminine – Die Filme von Nina Menkes
Die in Los Angeles lebende Regisseurin Nina Menkes (geb. 1963 in den USA) arbeitet in ihren bisherigen sechs Filmen über (weibliche) Zwischenzustände – verkörpert mit hypnotischer Präsenz, bis auf ihren neuesten Film, alle von ihrer Schwester Tinka Menkes. Ihre filmische Arbeit ist eine Reise zum – wie sie es nennt – “Shadow Feminine”.