One of the first freelance jobs I got in Berlin was salvaging a website for Christian Ender. Over the past …
die singende stadt — parsifal and calixto bieito
The last day screening, Dasniya and I climbed the stairs of Hackesche Höfe Kino for 90 more minutes of the …
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie
My last full day in Berlin, an afternoon adventure with someone who takes rather splendid photographs herself of derelict amusement …
lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …
I know that I AM
Today was emotionally really shitty, the kind of day I want to finish by getting wasted, all teen-punk angst. Lucky …
p.k.14 – a tour of the public kingdom
It’s time to think about China and Guangzhou again as I’ll be in Hong Kong in two weeks and spending …
behind the scenes
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln is calling for entries of dance film documentaries for the 2006 Behind the Scenes Festival. The film …
crazy for digital
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage …
China’s indie doco scene
I missed the 2nd 同性恋电影节 Beijing International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival a couple of months ago, but City Weekend …
淹沒 before the flood
I missed this one completely. 淹沒Before the Flood was screened in Guangzhou on the weekend. It’s also at the Los …
middle sex
Amidst a long list of stuff I’ve missed in the last couple of weeks was this doco on Channel 4 …
Joseph Rock rises again
Reading the Green Guide at Orange yesterday, the last name I expected to see getting airtime on SBS this week …
6 years of documentaries
Last month Taipei had the hype of 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival and the much less hyped 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International …
the white diamond
Werner Herzog’s new film opened the 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International Documentary Festival on Saturday. Last night under clouds that threatened rain …
saturday art special
There’s so much art on at the moment, I missed the opening of the Taiwan International Documentary Festival yesterday. It …
antonioni in china
Having made some of the most striking films of the new wave in L’Avventura, then setting The Yardbirds on fire …
lesbians wanted for documentary
I saw this at Wrong Place Right Time in Hong Kong, and I’m posting it here again because I get …
“Let the bodies hit the floor…that was the motto for our tank.”
Last night the ABC screened one of the most disturbing documentaries I’ve seen in a long while. Soundtrack To War …
海洋熱 – ocean fever
Director Chen Lung-nan’s rock n’ roll documentary of a bunch of underground bands playing at the Gong-liao Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival …
Time of Disasters
Sick of watching Hollywood beat the crap out of New York in every disaster movie from ,Towering Inferno to The …
好死不如赖活着 To Live Is Better Than to Die
In the early 90′s poor farmers across rural China made a few extra kuai by selling their blood. The syringes …
八九点钟的太阳 Morning Sun, A Documentary Film
Asialink is presenting the premiere screening in Melbourne next week of 八九点钟的太阳 bajiudian de taiyan – Morning Sun, on Tuesday …