Andreas Buttler | Heinz Hoenig

Der Drücker; Fernsehspiel von Uwe Frießner, 1986

Dabei gelingt es Frießner wie keinem anderen, in seinen Drehbüchern den Jargon sozialer Verlierer ganz unaufdringlich zu protokollieren. In Frießners Dialogen verliert die Rede der Subkultur nichts von ihrer Spontaneität. Keinem gelingt es wie Frießner, mit Laiendarstellern das professionelle Gemime ad absurdum zu führen. Er läßt sie Erfahrungen zeigen, von denen die anderen nicht einmal etwas ahnen.

— Helmut Schnödel

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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

— Siddharta

/// If your phone doesn't ring, it's me.

Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München; ph. von Gregor Schneider

You arrive too late. As do those who are not capable of loving. The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

— Albert Camus

Some experiences just need to be left in peace, they're fragile as a cobweb and cannot tolerate either thoughts or words. You just have to be satisfied with letting them flicker in a corner of your awareness now and then.

— Majgull Axelsson

But she did not want advice; she wanted intimacy.

— Virginia Woolf

[The most important thing is motivation.]

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

— Pema Chödrön

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

— William Faulkner

Aus einem deutschen Leben ...

It is almost unimportant whether a work finds an understanding audience. One has to do it because one believes that it is the right thing to do. We are not only here to please, we cannot help challenging the spectator.

— Pina Bausch

I want to share this emptiness with you; not fill the silence with false notes, or put tracks through the void. I want to share this wilderness of failure with you. The others have built you a highway; fast lanes in both directions. I offer you a journey without direction, uncertainty, and no sweet conclusion.

— Derek Jarman

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Our lives are all wrong. A person has no need of society, it is society that needs him. Society is a defence mechanism, a form of self-protection. Unlike a gregarious animal, a person must live in isolation, close to nature, to animals and plants, and be in contact with them. I can see more and more clearly that it is essential to change our way of life, to revise it. We have to start living differently. But how? First of all we have to feel free and independent, to believe and love; we have to reject this insignificant world and live for something else.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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Abends saß Haferkamp dann allein in seiner eigenen Wohnung, zurückgezogen von den Umständen, und hörte Jazz-Platten.

— Volker K. Belghaus

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Michael Heizer | Circular Surface Planar Displacement Drawing | 1969

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: You can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

— Junot Díaz

Kann man Sound sehen? Wie lässt sich ein Raum spüren? Und in welchem Verhältnis stehen Architektur und Klang? In die Installation White Circle tauchen die BesucherInnen unmittelbar ein, während Licht und Sound sich an ihre Körper schmiegen und den sie umgebenden Raum fortwährend transformieren.

Seid umschlungen!

raster noton, White Circle, 02.09. - 16.09.2017,
Kraftzentrale, LaPa Nord, Duisburg; revisited.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

— Tadao Ando

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The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like.

— Nicolas Berggruen

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Anselm Kiefer ist einer der bedeutendsten Maler der Gegenwart, Alexander Kluges Fernsehinterviews sind legendär. Über mehrere Jahre hinweg haben sich die beiden immer wieder getroffen und ausführliche Gespräche geführt. Mit jungenhafter Freude am Assoziieren reden sie über Kiefers Werdegang und seine Arbeitsweise, über Inspirationsquellen und Materialien, über Mythen und natürlich Geschichte. Zwischen die thematischen Blöcke hat Alexander Kluge filmische Miniaturen geschaltet, in denen er gemeinsame Ideen weiterspinnt und einzelne Aspekte vertieft. Ein großes dialogisches Künstlerporträt.

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Some memories don't fade […]. Years make them more real, as if they've got threads connected to you, and distance and time just make the threads tighten.

— Robert Reed

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For people understand without things being said.

— Virginia Woolf

Do, my dear, for heaven's sake, get out of your habit of judging other people's affairs without knowing all the circumstances.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Why is it that you search for your own beauty in the eyes of others?

— Emma Bleke

To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of non-understanding, was impossible.

— Franz Kafka

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... a seeker, someone lost and worth finding, someone with a soul contracting.

— Tennessee Williams

Tagebau Fortuna-Garsdorf, Rheinisches Revier

Unser Land NRW, Die Köln-Bonner Bucht, 1986

Ich habe ja irgendwann noch nicht mal mehr die Chance da hinzufahren. Wenn Sie jetzt von einem Ort in den anderen fahren und sagen, das ist mein Geburtsort, das ist mein Heimatort, Sie können ja immer wieder zurück, Sie können ja immer noch mal nach Hause fahren. Die Möglichkeit haben wir nicht mehr. Es ist irgendwann vorbei.

— Hans Goeres

WDR Dokumentation, 2017

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If you can't accept a situation, accept that you can't accept it.

― Eckhart Tolle

Power over others is destructive — always destructive. In a better world anybody who is ambitious, who wants to be more important than others, ahead of others, should be treated psychologically.

— Osho

Elena Mukhina, 1978

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If you're sad and depressed, remember:
You're at the same time on this planet as Kim Jong-Un.

Esfahani beklagte, noch nie bei einem Konzert so gestört worden zu sein wie in Köln, zumindest noch nie "auf so eine lautstarke und fast gewalttätige Art". An Aschermittwoch wird er in Köln wiederum Werke von Steve Reich, darunter "Piano Phase", spielen. Diesmal werden allerdings [deutsch gesprochene] Erläuterungen den Vortrag begleiten.

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[Perlen vor die Säue werfen ...]

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

― Fernando Pessoa

[Tell me lies.]

Anna Karina; with bangs and Onassis glasses, as always.

Le Petit Soldat, dir. by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male; the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object — and most particularly an object of vision.

— Helena Goscilo

Kinemathek; Sonntagsfilme.

Gepflegt changierend zw. Arthaus und Trash.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

― Charles Bukowski

Natalia Shaposhnikova, 1978

[Epic one armed hand stand on beam.]

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The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: You are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

— Eckhart Tolle

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

— Nikos Kazantzaki

Break often. Not like porcelain, but like waves.

— Scherezade Siobhan

Die Heimholung des Joseph Beuys, 1973

The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

— Milan Kundera

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She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

— Markus Zusak

On the set of Stalker; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979

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Gray is the color of our time.

— Jannis Kounellis

And if you explain it too much,
you loose everything.

Best girlfriend wristwatch ever.

[Feel the Juche; thank.]

Natalia Shaposhnikova, 1979

[Bangs; as always.]

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Schwächen: Du hattest keine. Ich hatte eine. Ich liebte.

― Bertolt Brecht

Richard Jordan ist Strictor Grock; der verlängerte Arm des Protektorates.

Solarfighters; inszeniert von Alan Johnson, 1986

Einer meiner ersten und prägendsten Kinofilme; meisterhafter 1980er Jahre Dystopie-Trash in Vollendung. Für die Filmmusik zeichnet Maurice Jarre verantwortlich. Der guten Ordnung halber: Sarah Douglas (Shandry) spielte zuvor in Falcon Crest die intrigante Sekretärin von Richard Channing.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

― Don DeLillo

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Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

— Josephine Hart

Tatort Duisburg, Ruhrort; inszeniert von Hajo Gies, 1981

Im schon abgewrackten Ruhrgebiet der 1980er Jahre meldete sich der Kriminalhauptkommissar per Festnetztelefon auf der Dienststelle und informierte die Kollegen, dass er die nächste Stunde wie immer in der Kneipe Bierquelle erreichbar sei und platzierte währenddessen bei ein, zwei gepflegten Pils und belegten Brötchen Pferdewetten. Dazu gab es noch einen kurzen Exkurs, ob man besser auf Trab- oder Galopprennen wetten oder den Wetteinsatz gleich versaufen solle. Episch, authentisch bis ins Detail und nicht kopierbar; echt.

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

— Haruki Murakami

Kinemathek; Sonntagsfilme.

Bonus: En Gasfilm, 1971

You and me and never us.

A complicated series
of almost interactions.

Watch me go ballistic, suckers ...

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It will strike if you let it. It will strike if you understand and accept that it may come from the most unexpected of places.

— Franz Kafka

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

— Laurie Helgoe

The Devil Probably, dir. by Robert Bresson in 1977

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

— Charles Bukowski

We understand absolutely nothing about modern civilization, if we do not admit at first that it is a universal conspiracy against all interior life.

— Georges Bernanos

Natalia Shaposhnikova, 1979

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There are worlds in you, and I have fallen in love with every one.

— Beau Taplin

Douglas Gordon | As close as you can for as long as it lasts | 2017

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

— Flannery O'Connor