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Efe Cakarel on curating art-house films in the binge-watching era

root — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:33:09 +0000

MUBI, the company he founded, bills itself as a kind of art-house Netflix. But it differs from other streaming services in one key way: it consciously curates film selections in an age of binge watching. The site only shows 30 films at any one time, with selections varying by country. Every day, one movie is

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Talking digital anxieties with transmediale’s Kristoffer Gansing

root — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 23:41:12 +0000

Yet, for the last year, he has been obsessing over the nervous energy of our digital age. The 2016 edition of transmediale, which opens on February 3rd at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, is called “Conversation Piece,” and its subject is a rapidly expanding landscape of new media that often leaves us hovering between

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