Spring time always reminds me of a very special trip i took to California, many years ago, at this time of the year. Today in particular, while watching Fleet Ilya’s SS11 collection, I remembered a barbecue restaurant overdone in pastels, like a fast-food hospital, near the border to Mexico. My friend and I left the room door open while carrying garbage to the dumpster and when we came back a teenage girl was sitting next to our door. Her skirt was torn down the side as either an act of violence or a statement of fashion. She looked exhausted. I offered her a diet soda and she took a sip, then set it aside and walked away just like in the movies. She reminded me of someone who had once dented my locker with her foot. She had left her bag. I took it, opened it, hoping to come across a picture of someone I knew from high school but didn’t. The girl’s name was Bianca. After that I remember sitting on the porch wiht my friend for a bit. Bianca never returned.

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It’s an image about a random nothing of a moment, but it is so deftly written that it tells the story of so much more and you realize this in the very last line, with the guy staring at his leg and probably the girl on the telephone with her ex-boyfriend downstairs with her family, thinking, “I could imagine the urgency of the dial tone, then the suspenseful cave of the ringing, and all the things that go through your mind.”

picture by Maxime Ballesteros

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Brooklyn Family

April 2nd, from 9 to 11.30pm

The British film director Peter Greenaway has been arguing for some 20 years now that cinema is dead and we are simply waiting for the dinosaur to roll over. In retaliation to this impending crisis Hollywood pumps more and more money into their productions in the vain hope that they can survive with their old fashioned formulas which are clearly biting the dust. Peter Gr…eenaway, lucid as ever, has a new vision of what cinema could become, which he calls ZINEMA. On Saturday March 2nd at the Kriterion he will give a live two hour illustrated lecture about this new approach of re-creating cinema. This event is being curated by Jeffrey Babcock under the theme of Cinema Degree Zero, a series of lectures/performances that pronounce the death of cinema in order to make space for new possibilities of filmmaking. This specific event is being realized in collaboration with cinema Kriterion.

Painter, novelist, critic, VJ, curator and one of the most daring and innovative filmmakers alive, Peter Greenaway is internationally famous for an oeuvre of films such as A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), Drowning by Numbers (1988) and The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989). His visionary fusion of art and film is incomparable to any other filmmaker today. More recently he has completed the ambitious three-part multimedia installation “The Tulse Luper Suitcases”. Ceaselessly creative, Peter Greenway is always pushing film forward as a progressive and provocative art, in both form and content. He is currently a professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

Text by EGS.

Reservations: +31 206231708

Location: Kriterion Cinema, Roetersstraat 170, Amsterdam, Netherlands

“The Pillow Book”, 1997 (quoted in details by Mireille Berton’s article for Sang Bleu 3&4)

Last week I had the pleasure to attend to a little exhibition of paintings of my old friend Claudia. The exhibit took place at the Eastpack flagship store on Carnaby street. I also bumped into the entire Jolie Rouge London crew.

Attending there was also an other old freind, legendary tattoo Artist Alex Reinke aka Hori Kitsune, hanging out here with my sister Jeanne Büchi and Her Husband Alejandro.

This weekend, Dasniya Sommer and Frances d’Ath will be teaching in Berlin, Kreuzberg.

Hours: 12 – 6 pm (one hour break)
Costs: €120, students and low income €100
Please bring tracksuits, food, and ropes if available. If you don’t have Shibari ropes, we will provide them.
Location: Studio ‘Bühnen & Bilder’
Ohlauerstr. 3-11
10999 Berlin / U1 Görlitzer Bahnhof

Information and registration: workshops@dasniyasommer.de

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The workshop combines principles of Yoga with the tying technique Nawa Shibari. This Japanese term is usually translated with winding, knotting or to binding a rope. It refers to the ancient Japanese practice to tie up a person and was originally developed by Samurais in the 16th century. Today it is a technique to play physically, to perform or to experiment with the body and restriction. The styles in Shibari are noticeably versatile, yet one can say that there are basic figures to use ropes effectively.

Text by the artists