Illness Educates – The Film Canon of the bpb

Illness Educates – The Film Canon of the bpb

It frequently happens that friends tell me about movies that I’ve heard of numerously, but haven’t ever watched. Some of them are reoccurring  (i.e. Apocalypse Now / Easy Rider / Avatar) and each time they are mentioned I’m a little bit more embarrassed, I do hold a diploma in film studies after all.

As I was tied to the bed because of another illness I decided to take it as an educational break and scoured the internet for a “Must-have-seen” list. I found one by The German Federal Agency for Civic Education. filmcritics, -scholars and –makers  created the film canon from what they found good and important. I watched three of the films they list in the last couple of days and must say I can’t wait for the others, as those were pretty great…

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Flying Lotus – Tiny Tortures Video

Flying Lotus – Tiny Tortures Video

Wow, someone has put some effort into his new video and combines that with the new trend of putting some famous actor into a video. It started with Shia Labeouf and Lindsay Lohan. The new Flying Lotus video for Tiny Tortures resembles a bizarre dream starring Hollywood actor and Ex-Hobbit Elijah Wood. The clip directed by David Lewandowski is disturbing yet it perfectly fits the surreal (and also disturbing ) but wonderful music of Flying Lotus. Made to push aside life’s tiny tortures, if you’re able to get over the disturbing part. Music for lovers. Check it out. Read on…