An EYE on BERLIN illustrates contemporary architecture and art examples within a consciousness of the city’s history between 1933 and 1989. It includes the Reichstag dome, the Jewish Museum, and the Sony Center. It also illustrates aspects of the city’s past and present and a visit to the Hamburger Bahnhof art museum and the German …
This documentary is titled Filmmaking Resume as a reference to short bits of architectural footage shot over the course of several years. Although, in the past, I have also created short films on art, politics, and cultural events, my focus here is on architecture-as-space. In the future, I will create movies on topics such as housing, sustainability, …
On a recent event at UCLA, the 43rd Congress of the Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, I was invited by its Interim President, Prof. Ileana Costea, to speak about what I do as an architect-filmmaker. I decided to edit “an extended trailer” of selected segments from my films. I called it “Doc Snippets.” Beyond …
The City of Redondo Beach hosted its first-ever BeachLife Festival with an eclectic lineup of 40 bands on three stages spread over three days from Friday May 3rd to Sunday May 5th. The festival promoters chose well with an impressive roster of headliners which included Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Bob Weir, Willie Nelson, …
Berlin is regarded as one of the most exciting architectural experiments in the world, with a cultural life second to none. On our first visit to Berlin since its reunification, our goal was to try to understand why the city has become a mecca for artists, a place of attraction to architects and filmmakers, internationally …
Berlin is home to hundreds of galleries and art museums that boast unparalleled collections. For the ambitious artist, this city is overflowing with opportunities for installations and exhibitions that could help put their work on the map. In fact, it is often the case that artists first gained notoriety in Berlin before moving to other …
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Why is Paris such a great city? What does Berlin tell about a city’s evolution? Why does Rome appeal to our senses? How is Israel transforming? I asked those questions before and after a recent trip of exploration on some aspects of these places’ architecture, urbanity, and lifestyle. For a subjective visual answer, you may take a …
This has been a great year for coming of age pictures to emerge from Sundance, and I think that among them, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is absolutely the best of the bunch. The graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner was hailed by Whitney Joiner of Salon.com as “one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender …
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WEIMAR SUBJECTIVITY AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR As a Russian Jew, I often thought why I always associated Berlin with Nazism and Communism. There was clearly a bias. Now, I have a new opinion. Having gone on extensive walking tours of Berlin with a cultural studies-history-professor-lecturer from the American University of Paris—wherein he narrated to …
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