Christian & his Verdienstkreuz

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 …

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