Film titles which take on a different meaning in the course of their translation are an interesting and frequent phenomenon. Lost in translation, a classic such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly becomes “Two glorious scoundrels“ in German, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now reads as “When the gondolas are in mourning“ and Melville’s …
Computerwelt: Kraftwerk Recorded The First Anti-Surveillance Song 40 Years Ago
We live in a computer world, so we made a song about it. Ralf Hütter In 1981, Edward Snowden‘s revelations on how Imperial America mass-surveilled its own citizens and the citizens of the world were still 32 years away. Yet, the seeds for today’s surveillance capitalism and globalization as 21st century version of colonialization were …
Great Performance Art: Christoph Schlingensief’s FOREIGNER’S OUT! (2000)
Director: Paul Poet Death is a sad and solemn business? Not always. Especially when it works as natural and just selection, it is a reason for absolute celebration. On October 11th in 2008, I met with friends at Bar Tabac in Cologne to celebrate the death of Austrian Neo-Nazi Jörg Haider by drinking, singing and …