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Manifest Dance-Film Festival

Manifest Dance-film festival July 28, 2023 to July 30, 2023 https://auroapaar.org/festival/ What actually manifested there? The moving images, which emerged from latent images and are ‚brought to life‘ in their sequence of at least 24 images per second, these images of dancers, who were already at the beginning of cinematography according to their genre, these images were shown at the Dance-Film Festival Manifest from July 28 to 30, 2023 at the Alliance Française in Pondicherry. During the 2.5 days of the festival…

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Poetry and the impossibility of talking about highways

But Hitler built the Autobahn! I'm hearing this more and more often lately. It's difficult to continue this discussion because a certain argument, which I find very important, is quite complex and is rejected by people who want to relativize fascism and the Holocaust. The argument, inspired by Adorno, is: After Auschwitz, no more poems can be written. Roughly outlined, it goes like this: The extent of the horror of the Holocaust is so great that we, as individuals and as...

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A world of will?

Many of my friends have a strong will, they are creative, they design, they do, they act, they make... They confront the world with their own will and add to it or refuse to accept it as it is. This creates creativity, change. It is the power of Shakti, the creative energy of the universe. I am different, I observe, I try to understand the world as it is. I don't want to change it, even though I see a lot of suffering and injustice, I observe, I listen...

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