Berlinale 2012

21Feb12

It is cold in Berlin, it snows, yet, I am excited! It’s Berlinale time, another round of the Berlin film festival. A week standing in lines for tickets, displacing myself from one cinema to another, trying to grab a bite in between films. After last year’s extensive coverage, I still managed to submerge myself a [...]

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Tags: Anja Salomonowitz, Berlin, Berlinale, Clémence Ancelin, Marlon Rivera, snow, Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Umut Dag, Ursula Meier, Yahya Alabdallah

Nights in Washington

04Jul11

Nights in Washington are different. I don’t know exactly why and how, but I don’t feel the same need as in Berlin to be outside. Why is it that restaurants are so loud that you can barely talk? Don’t they check on the acoustic at all? It seems that the louder, the hipper the place. [...]

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Tags: beergarden, Berlin, music, Pokketmixer, Washington

Berlin

27Apr11

Oh, and Washington is only a couple of hours away from Berlin, and a couple of miles from Ocean City. No comparison to Berlin though, the other Berlin, over in Germany, you know. Other than that the Delmarva peninsula shines with Frankford, a lot of British city names (Oxford, Cambridge), and Vienna.

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Why movies about bad people are good: Berlinale Sunday

14Feb11

Let’s start with the highlight: Bu-dang-geo-rae (The Unjust), a movie about bad people and the corrupted system. No one is good, even less those who work on the good side, the Police, the State Prosecution. The rivalry between the police investigator Choi and the State Prosecutor Joo pushes the movie forward constantly and drives each [...]

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Tags: Berlin, Berlinale, corruption, trashball comedy

Day 2: Shoveling snow

02Dec10

I couldn’t imagine being able to post snow related pictures as part of this advent calendar! But here you go: Shoveling snow on the roofs of Berlin! (And I am cheating, as I am posting this only today, which is the third of December…)

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Advent calendar. First snow. First of December

01Dec10

This is to pick up where I left it two years ago. Back then, when I started this blog, I wanted to write up a bit of my experiences in Morocco. Now, here’s what I did on first of November, besides having my piece of chocolate from the advents calendar (photo to follow). First snow [...]

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Tags: advents calendar, Berlin, dave lombardo

fernsehturm reflection

11Oct10

fernsehturm reflected. a beautiful day.

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tempelhof

26Sep10

Tempelhof-Flughafen. Berlin. space for freedom. hopes, flying high. expectations. one week later: dropping sounds, constant, pauseless. shimmering, distant movement. rain covering the runway. stopped.

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reflections

23Sep10

reflections. without words. holocaust memorial site, Berlin: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, by architect Peter Eisenman

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kottbusser tor

20Sep10

first of some images from berlin to come in the next couple of days. metro station: kottbusser tor

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