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SoftwareDR (Dirk Roth) has created an amazing shot by shot recreation of Joy Division’s career-making live rendition of “Transmission” on Tony Wilson’s show “Something Else” on Granada TV. Wilson was a British TV journalist who later founded the Manchester-based Factory Records, the label Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays and many other seminal post punk Continue Reading

"Moan", the brooding 2009 club smash by Danish electronica musician and producer Trentemøller (who also contributed to the soundtrack of realeyz documentary COMPLAINTS CHOIR), served as the inspiration by Nils Strüven's award-winning short film HEARTWORK. Beautifully acted by an ensemble cast featuring Sarah Gerstner, Klaas Malorny, Axel Hartwig, Philine Proft and Georg Lehmann, HEARTWORK is Continue Reading

Mario Mentrup, co-director of I DO ADORE, CITY OF LIGHT and THE EAGLE IS GONE, is a renaissance man of sorts. He acts in film, television and theater and is also a musician. In the 80s and 90s he fronted the Krautrock-noise band Knochen=Girl:

In 2004 he founded Pasadena Project, a frequent contributor to Mentrup's film Continue Reading

Darren Aronofsky, acclaimed director of Black Swan, The Fountain, The Wrestler and Pi, has often been told that his harrowing, visceral adaptation of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s chronicle of drug addiction hell, Requiem For A Dream, is as effective a plea as any against substance abuse.
Requiem For A Dream showed how both illicit (heroin) and over Continue Reading

Diskussionsforum mit Aktivistinnen aus Hongkong
Voll utopisch? Ein Lohn zum Leben, asienweit ... weltweit!
May Wong und Rena Lau, die sich für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen einsetzen, berichten von ihren Recherchen in den Fertigungsstätten von Outdoor-, Skate- und Surf Produkten. Unter dem Motto ‚Discover Fairness’ sind sie auf einer Speakers-Tour der Clean Clothes Campaign durch Europa.
Ihr Hauptanliegen ist, dass Continue Reading

HEUTE 30. November, 19:30 Uhr gibt es eine ONLINE LIVE-ÜBERTRAGUNG aus Österreich:  Kreativunternehmen als Changemaker - im Großen wie im Kleinen "Es braucht Kreative, um die Welt zu verändern".
"Kreativunternehmen sind ein Innovationsmotor, die mit ihren Arbeiten auch gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen anpacken. Neuartige Lösungen für ökologische, soziale und kulturelle Fragen werden so oftmals von Kreativen vorangetrieben. Sie Continue Reading

Until November 30, the 8th One World Berlin Film Festival for Human Rights and Media is screening films at the Arsenal cinema and the ACUD. This year's focus topics are new technologies and warfare, food sovereignity, censorship and protest movements against the crisis.
One World Berlin is a partner festival of the One World International Human Continue Reading

My favorite radio station NPR offers a lot of great music for listeners (along with excellent news reporting and talk shows). The other morning NPR's 'Tiny Desk Concerts'grabbed my ear. It was a live performance of cellist Yo Yo Ma's newest adventure 'The Goat Radio Sessions'. The group's mandolinist, Chris Thile, explained that Continue Reading

Bryon Widner, a former US white supremacist, covered his face with racist tattoos as a teenager. Decades later, after leaving the white supremacist movement and being unable to find a job with such appearance, he started to strongly regret his decision of tattooing his face in such way. At one point, he felt so bad Continue Reading

All you camera freaks out there might like watching the video of the panoramic ball camera developed by researcher Jonas Pfeil and his team at the Technical University in Berlin.
The camera is a ball like any other ball, except that 36 fixed-focus 2 megapixel mobile phone camera modules have been inserted into the padding.
The Continue Reading