Author Archives: Jens Haas

I Don’t Know Exactly What, But It Feels Like That

By Jens Haas | Published: September 1, 2010
In the past three years or so, there must have been close to 100 interviews with artists in my rss feed. “Dismantling My Career: A Conversation with Alec Soth” is one of the few I read all the way to the end. Via his new site, here.
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Something With Trees

By Jens Haas | Published: August 16, 2010
It’s been some 20 years since I first watched Down By Law. I remembered, like a couple of million other people I guess, the prison scene. I did not remember Robby Müller’s stunning cinematography in what is not even my favorite Jim Jarmusch film. Now I wonder whether the sequences after the escape, shot in [...]
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Wisdom In Street Signs

By Jens Haas | Published: July 27, 2010
Not without surprise I notice a trend among fellow inmates to get pets. Well, I come from a small town, and I find the idea of having pets (or children!) in Manhattan surprising. Anyway, I went to Harlem yesterday, and when I got back I realized that the only picture I had taken was this [...]
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