Pitchfork profile Justin Vernon through an existentialist lens for what makes a lively and intimate feature. Through Vernon’s words and the utopianism of the nameless Berlin festival that is the article’s setting we get a sense of a man trying to work out the value of what he does.
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The Joy of Old Maps
Old or new, analogue or digital maps are only ever a document of that moment, and they’re ever-changing if not on the map itself then in the mind of the viewer. For Paul Scraton at the fabulous Elsewhere Journal they’re a way of investigating the story of a place’s past.
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Life along the Berlin Wall
A super photo essay of images taken in 1986, three years before the wall fell. As the article describes they reflect “the resigned sense of normalcy around a barrier that many feared would stand for another 25 years or more.”
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Watch: Loud Places
A beautifully-shot short film telling the stories of gig-goers from music venues that have since been closed, including Hammersmith Palais, Berlin’s Quartier Latin and Le Rose Bonbon in Paris. A great film that asks us to consider the cultural memories and associations of place.
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Pantha Du Prince: a man at odds with the Berlin he lives in – Interview
Germany’s Hendrik Weber straddles a strange acceptance between different musical communities. As Pantha Du Prince he sates everyone from techno structuralists, to more wooly indie lovers and into the more organic, ancient world of gamelan and world music – however, despite his vista of fans, Hendrik is feeling more and more disconnected from the world with each album: […]
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What’s the way forward for UK nightlife?
The debate surrounding London’s decaying music scene has been largely dominated by nostalgia, doom mongering and blame. Music platform Resident Advisor preferred to sit down a handful of the most progressive societal protagonists from Berlin, Amsterdam and London and demand their specialised ruminations.
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Writing’s On the Wall: Close-Up on Andrzej Zulawski’s “Possession”
“These found spaces are worked into a vivid, psychosomatic reality. Harsh geometries abound.” Michael Pattison takes a tour through the spaces – physical and otherwise – that play host to Andrzej Zulawski’s monstrous Possession.
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9 Lessons The World Can Learn From Berlin
For good or for bad, Berlin is regarded as Europe’s playground for hedonists and techno obsessives. However the gentle, liberal and progressive DNA that this subculture has instilled now acts as a bold example for more struggling metropolises to play catch up.
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Watch: Homeland is not a Series
A new film in The Intercept’s excellent video series, Field of Vision, compiles a message we’ve highlighted previously: the Arabian Street artists’ subversion of the TV series Homeland’s message through their carefully placed graffiti on its set last year, disrupting the series’ Western viewpoint. An interview with the artists is also on the site.
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