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Criticising the Syrian Regime with Finger Puppets
Daring young Syrian filmmakers, toiling in anonymity in a Damascus basement, have crafted an award-winning film critiquing with bold humor the brutal repression occurring around them. Because showing...
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Norient stürzt sich mitten ins Gewimmel des WorldWideWeb, stöbert, wühlt und klickt was das Zeug hält und pickt musikalische Perlen, Neuheiten und Highlights der letzten Wochen heraus. Heute nicht...
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Block 4: Von kleinen und grossen Stars (Bern)
Samstag, 17. Januar 2015. Der vierte Festival-Block der sechsten Ausgabe des Norient Musikfilm Festivals beleuchtet das Leben von kleinen und grossen Stars und zeigt wie weit und gleichzeitig nah diese...
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Alte und neue Sounds aus Kairo (St. Gallen)
Freitag, 16. Januar 2015. Zum ersten Mal findet das jährliche Norient Musikfilm Festival nicht nur in Bern statt, sondern zeitgleich im Palace St. Gallen. Am ersten der beiden St. Galler Festivaltage...
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Pulling the Plug on Art
In their 2014 music video «#Kholo BC» Karachi-based rapper and comedian Ali Gul Pir and rapper and singer/songwriter Adil Omar criticize the Pakistani government for banning the video-sharing site...
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A Finger to the Establishment
«Nowadays no song is independent», says journalist Manal Faheem Khan from Karachi and explains how the Pakistani music business works. The music video «#Kholo BC» by Ali Gul Pir and Adil Omar might be...
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Regenerative Culture (part 3/5)
Nothing is original, just unique to the moment in which it is experienced. In the third part of his essay, Eduardo Navas analyzes Adornos book Minima Moralia and shows that even his idiosyncratic...
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