Hannah Arendt
Commentary
Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
Books
Azadi: Freedom, Fascism. Fiction
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's staging of himself has been successful enough to keep him at the helm for years. But the role models for his ruling BJP party were inspired by German and Italian fascism.
Books
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
PRE-FASCISM: Written for society «between Hitler and Stalin», Timothy Snyder's book lies between patriotic obedience and political disobedience.
Books
Conflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
ART: Though many of today's patrons use art as a giant advertising pillar, what can art still do when politicians lie?
Books
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
When our faith in grand narratives erodes as our lives become increasingly hectic, time itself loses its direction and meaning.
Documentary
Becoming Animal
ECOLOGY: A magnificent documentary about the natural origins of what we consider to be man-made and the connection between man and nature.
Commentary
Revolution and Power
OCTOBER 1917: What can books and films tell us about the 1917 revolutions?
Documentary
Last Men in Aleppo
Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Last Men in Aleppo will have its European premiere at the March opening film of Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX.
