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1997 schreibt die erfolglose Künstlerin Chris Kraus in „I Love Dick“ über ihre Liebe zu einem ahnungslosen Kollegen ihres Mannes. Als sie sich ihrem Ehemann offenbart, beschließt das Paar ein Kunst-Projekt daraus zu machen. Sie schreiben Briefe an Dick, die aber nicht abgeschickt werden. Kraus seziert schonungslos und offen ihre Begehren, aber auch ihr Scheitern. […]

Repulsion is a 1965 British psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser and Yvonne Furneaux. The screenplay is based on a scenario by Gérard Brach and Polanski, involving a young withdrawn woman who finds sexual advances repulsive and who, after she is left alone by her vacationing […]

The Florida Project is a 2017 American drama film directed by Sean Baker and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch. It stars Brooklynn Prince, Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, and Caleb Landry Jones. For many of the leading stars, including Vinaite, Cotto, Rivera, and Mela Murder, this was the first time they […]

In her new graphic novel Drawn to Berlin, American comic artist Ali Fitzgerald recounts her experiences teaching comics to asylum-seekers in a Berlin refugee shelter. Drawn to Berlin combines recollections of Jewish displacement from the 1920s with contemporary debates on immigrants and asylum seekers in Germany. Her drawn vignettes show us both frightening parallels and […]

Tangerine is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Sean Baker and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch, starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor and James Ransone. The story follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her. The film was shot with three iPhone 5s smartphones.[4] Tangerine premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015. It had a limited release on July 10, 2015 through Magnolia […]