I caught myself thinking/hoping there would not be anything to blog today.
Sunset Blame.
Er hatte das Geld. Er war der Mann. Er bestand darauf. Er fühlte sich für alles verantwortlich. Auch für das Wetter.
Alice/Lynn über Max Frisch beim Strandspaziergang mit Volker Weidermann
Filmentwicklung.
So you can’t live in the past, but you can be critical of the present. When everything changed to digital a couple of years ago, it entailed the potential for incredible freedom. It should have meant that, with the help of the internet, any cinema in the world could show any film they would like to directly from the filmmaker, without any interference of businessmen or distributors. But this didn’t happen. Because distributors got in between and said “we want the same old structure”, so they lobbied and forced the situation to stay the same, whereas we could have absolute freedom.
Open Position(s).
I‘m not gonna apply for something I have no clue about and I‘m not gonna sign any papers and I don‘t know beforehand how I want things to be. We can talk about our CVs, but I‘ll not bring any references.
(Cheer-)Leader.
When I looked around the arena at my robotics competition, I counted only three other girls out of over a thousand high school students working on their teams’ robots. Glancing at the bleachers, I watched girls parading as mascots, girls cheering for their teams, and girls dancing in the stands. But I didn’t see girls on the competition floor. Maybe in the next few years that gender balance will change, and the timid girls in the bleachers will be replaced by fearless women who are undaunted by society’s confining expectations. Someday, my all-girls team will not be the exception to the unspoken rule, but until then, we have to keep breaking it.