The ice along the coast is still solid enough for walking (or skating).
This week there was a Lux Film Days screening event, where finalists of the annual Lux Audience Award can be rated. Although I reserved tickets to four screenings (they didn’t cost anything), in the end I bothered to watch only one (Smoke Sauna Sisterhood). Cinema exhaustion, I guess.
However, later during the week I did go watch an old German movie People on Sunday (1930), which was a nicely grainy 16mm copy backed by an pianist playing the background music for this otherwise silent film. The movie’s plot itself was nothing more than a simple Sunday afternoon among young Berliners, but it worked for all its innocence and frankness.
Lines not to be crossed at Daido Moriyama’s exhibition.
After the movie I visited Daido Moriyama‘s retrospective photo exhibition, which turned out to be a great one. Daido’s raw, immediate snapshot approach in photography made me think about my perspectives on the subject. I even bought a small paperback book from the art exhibition’s museum shop, where he explains his methods in more detail. I was that impressed.
In the gaming front, I’ve continued playing Nier: Automata. While it is rather glitchy and unpolished, there sure have been many “Wait, what?” moments in the game. I don’t want to spoil anything about the plot, but as far as narrative goes, I’m hard pressed to name a similar game I’ve encountered myself before. Let’s see what I think about it once I’ve finished it some day.
Wandering around a shopping mall in Nier: Automata.