LivingArchive all the way,baby! A sweet rhythmic short
subject program of Pragmatische Poetik des Archivs by personable academe Senta
Siewert in conversation with Simona Monizza of Eye Film Institute Netherlands who started her career at George Eastman House
in Rochester the last home of Louise Brooks, and our lovely Arsenal Empress
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. So wonderous
seeinig two films by Bruce Conner-Looking For Mushrooms USA 1961 and Mongoloid
1976 featuring the music of my old pal Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, that Crowleyan
legend Kenneth Anger and his 1965 lovesexy krotchworth Kustom Kar Kommandos ,
Marie Menken’s Lights 1965 and Arabesque for Kenneth Anger 1961, Her Mona,
Klaus Telscher 1992, and My Name is Oona, Gunver Nelson 1969. In the steel
foyer at the CHEAP Gossip Studio Bar manned by CHEAP school grad Salome Gersche
who leaves Berlin for six months to work with a feminist collective in Bolivia. Spirited conversations abound with
celebutants in attendance and filmic royalty in the person of the magnificent Heide Schlupmann and Carolla Graumann of Frankfurt’s
Kino Tech Asta Nielsen, singer Cecile McLawrence Sevant whose new album Woman
Child is causing quite a stir in the modern jazz world. Film historian Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse,
kJohnny Blue and his hot new ragazza, plus the juicy Markus Ruff and Uli
Ziemons.
Took a nice summer respite with the
handsome and very hard working Mr. Ziemons in the Tiergarten at the upper Gay
Cancer Shelf for an olde fashion picnic in the park. Lots of gorgons in speedos showing off, a few
sex lizard nudists, and even a bevy of
voluptuous young girl supermodels sunning across from us. Had to leave the park somewhat early in time
to be back at Arsenal in Potsdamer Platz and go through security check as US
President Barack Obama was spending the night at the Ritz Carleton which is
right next door to the Sony Filmhaus which houses Arsenal. Very weird being surrounded by soldiers with
automatic weapons. Barely arrived on time for the second part of South Afrikan
mulatto sex champion Darryl Els’ Shifting Grounds: Reflections on National
Identity in the Archive. The muscle bound, hairy chested Mr. Els is a he-man of
a sensitive curator as topographic hunter/gatherer. A sublime choice of short
subjects: Canadian Pacific, Canada 1974
by David Rimmer, Images of Asian Music:A Diary of Life USA Peter Hutton
1973-74, Girl From Moush, Canada 1993 and Was bleibt? Clarissa Thieme Bosnian
and Herzegowina 2009 and the 1989 Bolivian feature film La Nacion Clandestina
by Jorge Sanjines, which like the other films gleam with vistas, landscape and treacherous
terrain. La Nacion Clandestina featuring
the high glam of the Indigenous Aymara Tribe in the Altiplano high above La Paz
who not only wear stunning almost couture like clothing but even their
livestock is festooned with Ziegfeldesque headdresses and sparkly accessories.With
insightful programming like this its easy to see why M. Els’s star is rising internationally.
Representing the Darryl Els fanclub:
Shai Heredia Arsenal guest curator,Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Internet
Radio Magazine,Annette Schoenholzer ,Art Basel director, Gabrielle Giattini art
dealer extroidinaire, artist Yngve Holen, ballet dancer Benjamin Millepied aka:
Mr. Natalie Portman and Kristy Faccer the delightful Canuckian significant
other of La Els.
