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Hello everyone - long time no see. Well, I have Internet and a computer at home, finally.
Had a nice weekend. I spent St. Patricks day in NZ-upon-thames, with Stats NZ ex-colleagues at the Duke of Devonshire at Baldham. Also, Tate Modern and hanging out at Camden with Shannon and sitting around the flat and reading the Guardian supplements (which made me want to go and buy the Nico compliation).
Monday and Tuesday was Printemps de Cinéma here, so I went along to "Lady Chatterly" and "Our Daily Bread" - a film shot in extensive European agricultural exploitations, where scenes of people picking and growing vegetables and grains where alternated with scenes of farmers (factory workers) handling animals. Interesting, in light of the fact that I just saw Eissenstien's "La ligne générale a the week before, where scenes of mechanized agriculture were edited with scenes of industry and in context of people struggling to plough fields under the hot sun - Progress.
Otherwise, I went along to the screening of "Volem rien à foutre el païs" organized at St-André-des-Arts. A film about communities opposed to working and the degradation and submission to consumerism that "work" implies - and thus resisting capitalism. An interesting film and an interesting debate that followed, which I unfortunately wasn't able to sit through entirely (I was hungry).
Otherwise, I have to apply for my visa for my trip to the Ukraine in may. New Zealanders need a visa and an invitation. Dima has kindly agreed to write me up an invitation and sign his mothers name on it.
Had a nice weekend. I spent St. Patricks day in NZ-upon-thames, with Stats NZ ex-colleagues at the Duke of Devonshire at Baldham. Also, Tate Modern and hanging out at Camden with Shannon and sitting around the flat and reading the Guardian supplements (which made me want to go and buy the Nico compliation).
Monday and Tuesday was Printemps de Cinéma here, so I went along to "Lady Chatterly" and "Our Daily Bread" - a film shot in extensive European agricultural exploitations, where scenes of people picking and growing vegetables and grains where alternated with scenes of farmers (factory workers) handling animals. Interesting, in light of the fact that I just saw Eissenstien's "La ligne générale a the week before, where scenes of mechanized agriculture were edited with scenes of industry and in context of people struggling to plough fields under the hot sun - Progress.
Otherwise, I went along to the screening of "Volem rien à foutre el païs" organized at St-André-des-Arts. A film about communities opposed to working and the degradation and submission to consumerism that "work" implies - and thus resisting capitalism. An interesting film and an interesting debate that followed, which I unfortunately wasn't able to sit through entirely (I was hungry).
Otherwise, I have to apply for my visa for my trip to the Ukraine in may. New Zealanders need a visa and an invitation. Dima has kindly agreed to write me up an invitation and sign his mothers name on it.