best of 2024
January 3rd, 2025
Music
Guests – I Wish I Was Special
Able Noise – High Tide
Chlothilde – Cross Sections
Polido – Hearing Smoke
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Rosso Polare – Campo Amaro
Die Nerven – Wir Waren Hier
J Dilla – Donuts
Brigitte Fontaine – Pick Up
Maria Reis – Suspiro
Blur – The Ballad of Darren
Ana Lua Caiano – Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado
Brighde Chaimbeul – Carry Them With Us
Sega Bodega – Dennis
Laura Cannell – The Rituals Of Hildegard Reimagined
Jahari Massamba Unit – YHWH Is Love
Carme López – Quintela
Jungle – Volcano
Charli XCX – Brat
Film/TV
Bertrand Bonello – La Bête
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine As Light
Andrew Haigh – All of Us Strangers
Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer
Miguel Gomes – Grand Tour
Alain Guiradie – Miséricorde
Nic Pizzolatto – True Detective: Night Country
Chantal Akerman – Retrospektive
Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks – Shōgun
Todd Haynes – May December
Rodrigo Moreno – Los Delincuentes
Patricia Highsmith, Steven Zailian – Ripley
Thierry De Peretti– À Son Image
Victor Erice – Close Your Eyes
Donald Glover, Francesca Sloaney – Mr. & Mrs. Smit
Books
Paul Simpson – Revolutionary Spirit
Toni Tulathimutte – Rejection
Arthur Nersesian – The Fuck-Up
Joseph Roth – Das Spinnennetz
Dagmar Herzog – Cold War Freud
Roderick Beaton – Ελλάδα, Βιογραφία ενός σύγχρονου έθνους
Mariana Enriquez – Um lugar luminoso para gente sombria
Orhan Pamuk – Das Museum der Unschuld
Eleanor Catton – Birnam Wood
Roberto Bolaño – 2666
Matrix – Making Space: Women and the Man Made Environment
Nicole Flattery – Nothing Special
Sally Rooney – Intermezzo
Valdemar Cruz – Paisagens Construidas
Phil Mailer – Portugal, Die unmögliche Revolution
Patti Smith – Just Kids
Philipp Lenhard – Café Marx, Das Institut Für Sozialforschung
Lion Feuchtwanger – Die Geschwister Oppermann
Cathi Unsworth – Bad Penny Blues
best of 2023
January 5th, 2024
Music
Tara Clerkin Trio – On The Turning Ground
Voice Actor – Fake Sleep
Tirzah – trip9love…???
eyedress – Let’s Skip to the Wedding
Various – Gespensterland
Madvillain – Madvillainy
Slowdive – Everything Is Alive
Bar Italia – Tracey Denim
Pere Ubu – Trouble On Big Beat Street
Doja Cat – Scarlet
Cloth – Secret Measure
Teresa Winter – Prosperine
Marina Satti – Yenna
Gina Birch – I Play My Bass Loud
Rita Silva – The Inflationary Epoch
SZA – SOS
Fiesta En El Vacío – Fiesta En El Vacío
Aksak Maboul – Une Aventure De VV
Nídia – 95 Mindjeres
Kali Malone – Live @ Subset Festival Athens
Xexa – Vibrações de Prata
Paul Rooney – Surface Industries II
Philip Jeck & Chris Watson – Oxmardyke
Esben & The Witch – Hold Sacred
TSVI (Anunaku) – Stella Remota
Marlene Ribeiro – Toquei No Sol
Bear Bones, Laylow – Ideas Flotantes
The Cleaners From Venus – Kassetten 1981 – 1992
Claire M Singer – Saor
Clientele – I Am Not There Anymore
Film/TV
Kristoffer Borgli – Dream Scenario
Lee Sung Jin – Beef
Retrospektive – Maurice Pialat
Hiroshi Shimizu – Sound of the Mist
Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer & Achim von Borries – Babylon Berlin S5
William Friedkin – To Live and Die in L.A.
Ronan Bennett – Top Boy S5
Aki Kaurismäki – Fallen Leaves
Davy Chou – Retour à Séoul
Nicolas Roeg – Walkabout
Ali Abbasi – Holy Spider
Zal Batmanglij & Brit Marling – A Murder at the End of the World
Alice Rohrwacher – La Chimera
Peter Bogdanovich – What’s up, Doc?
Thomas Cailley – The Animal Kingdom
Werner Herzog – Nomad, In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Books
Cathi Unsworth – Season Of The Witch
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
Deborah Levy – August Blue
Thurston Moore – Sonic Life
James Corbett– The Outsiders
Roberto Bolaño – Die Wilden Detektive
Georg Büchner – Gesamtwerk
Sarah Waters – Fingersmith
Alan Warner – Kitchenly 434
Alvaro Siza – Piscina Na Praia de Leça de Palmeira
Barbara Klemm – Frankfurt
Ursula K. Le Guin – No time to spare
best of 2022
January 9th, 2023
Music
Kali Malone – Living Torch
Romain De Ferron – Ravi
Claire Rousay – Everything Perfect Is Already Here
Sourdure – ADe – Bon Astre
Jenny Hval – Classic Objects
Ivo Dimchev – various
Firmaet Forvoksen – Undone Shal
Sorry – Anywhere But Here
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Dear Scott
Stealing Sheep – La Planète Sauvage
Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen
Time Binding Ensmble – Nothing Ever New Under The Sun
The Orielles – Tableau
Maria Reis – Benefício Da Dúvida
Gwenno – Tresor
Caroline – Caroline
Dieslexic – Lexicon hall
Bezbog – Dazhbog
Tiago Sousa – Ripples On The Surface
Joana Gama / Luís Fernandes – There’s No Knowing
Moor Mother – Jazz Codes
Skillibeng – various
Lucrecia Dalt – Ay
Film/TV
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Olivier Assayas – Irma Vep (Series)
Vince Gilligan / Peter Gould – Better Call Saul S.6 (Series)
Emmanuael Marre / Julie Lecoustre – Rien à Foutre
Sergei Eisenstein – Bronenosets Potemkin (1925)
Alex Garland – Men
Αλέξανδρος Πανταζούδης / Αλέκος Κυράνης – Κάνε ότι κοιμάσαι
Vincent Maïl Cardona – Les Magnétiques
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Jack Cocker / Reiner Holzemer – The Colourful Mr Eggleston (2009)
Nathan Fielder – The Rehearsal
Shinji Aoyama – Eureka
Dan Kwan / Daniel Scheiner – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Elena López Riera – El Agua
Hamzy (Hahm Ji Hyung) – eating show/Mukbang (youtube)
Barbara Loden – Wanda
Jordan Peele – Nope
Park Chan-wook – Decision To Leave
Books
Louise Welsh – The Second Cut
Daniel Blaufuks – Lisboa Clichê
Joshua Cohen – The Netanyahus
Kim de l’Horizon – Blutbuch
Cosey Fanni Tutti – Re-Sisters
James Horrox – Gelebte Revolution
Sibylle Berg – GRM. Brainfuck
Hannah Arendt – Vita Activa
Ottessa Moshfegh – Eileen
Miguel Esteves Cardoso – Escríta Pop
Μιχάλης Μακρόπουλος – Η Θάλασσα
Alan Moore – Illuminations
Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
Peter Kurzeck – Und Wo Mein Haus?
Ioanna Theocharopoulou – Builders, Housewives, and the Construction of Modern Athens
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Claude Lévi-Strauss – Traurige Tropen
Ana Christina Silva – À Procura Da Manhã Clara
David Graeber/David Wengrow – The Dawn Of Everything
Molly MacKenzie – Turkish Athens: The Forgotten Centuries, 1456-1832
Diogo Simões – A Zona
Lucy Cooke – Bitch
Wolfgang Martynkewicz – Das Café Der Trunkenen Philosophen
Best of 2021
January 5th, 2022
Ein weiteres Jahr Pandemie hat uns in unsere jeweiligen kleinen Universen gefesselt und wenig Spielraum für Überraschungen geboten. Live Events waren selten und fanden in einem merkwürdig gedämpften Rahmen statt. Sind das vorübergehende Zustände oder hat sich die Welt dahingehend geändert, dass wir uns mit diesen neuen Gegebenheiten auch in Zukunft arrangieren werden müssen? Welcher Konsens lässt sich noch erreichen in einer gefühlt zersplitterten Gesellschaft, deren äussere Extreme den Echoraum der Sozialen Medien besetzen und bewirtschaften?
Wir bewahren uns trotz allem einen verhaltenen Optimismus, gepaart mit Neugier und der Offenheit für Experimente, und wünschen uns und allen ein neues Jahr voller positiver Überraschnungen.
Music
Heta Bilaletdin – Nauhoi
Warrington Runcorn New Development Plan– Interim Report, March 1979
Mikis Theodorakis – Axion Esti
The Chills – Scatterbrain
Gaute Granli– Blusens Fasong
Sarah Terral– Le Ménisque Original
Phew – New Decade
Igor Stravinsky – Le Sacre du Printemps
Hattie Cooke– Bliss Land
Filipe Felizardo– Red Cross
Maria Da Rocha– No Lasting Name
Niagara– 1807
Teresa Winter – Motto Of The Wheel
Dohnavùr– The Flow Across Borders
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
Blanketman – National Trust
Faust– 1971-1974
José Mauro – A Viagem Das Horas
Goldblum– Of Feathers And Bones
Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future
Cassandra Jenkins– An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
Tirzah – Colourgrade
Various Artists – Antologia De Música Atípica Portuguesa Volume 3: Canto Devocionário
Aquaserge– The Possibility Of A New Work For Aquaserge
Tassos Chalkias – Divine Reeds
Fatigues – L’Rain
Rebecca Vasmant – With Love From Glasgow
Film/TV
Todd Haynes– The Velvet Underground
Catarina Vasconcelos – A Metamorfose Dos Pássaros
Just Philippot – La Nuée
Christian Petzold – Udine
Brad Ingelsby – Mare of Easttown
Jac Schaeffer – WandaVision
Hwang Dong-hyuk– Squid Game
Sarah-Violet Bliss/Charles Rogers/Michael Showalter – Search Party
Σωτήρης Τσαφούλιας – Έτερος εγώ: Χαμένες Ψυχές
Kaneto Shindô – Onibaba (1964)
John Wilson – How To With John Wilson
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive my Car
Leos Carax– Annette
Jesse Armstrong – Succession S.3
Shaka King – Judas and the Black Messiah
Ashley Lyle/Bart Nickerson – Yellowjackets
Books
Mariana Enriquez – Nuestro Parte Da Noche (bzw. A Nossa Parte Da Noite)
Ulrich Peltzer – Das Bist Du
Μαρία Ευθημίου – Ρίζες και Θεμέλια
Angela Lehner – Vater Unser
David Peace– Tokyio Redux
Benjamin Berton– Dreamworld
Cátia Vieira– Lola
Samanta Schweblin– Siete Casas Vacías (bzw. Sete Casas Vazias)
Jhumpa Lahiri – In Other Words
Olaf Arndt – Unter Deutschland
Paulo Moura – Extremo Ocidental
Μιχάλης Μακρόπουλος – Μαύρο Νερό
George Simenon – Betty/Der Mörder/Die Marie Vom Hafen/Das Haus Am Kanal
Πέτρος Μάρκαρης – Ο Φόνος είναι Χρήμα
Rachel Cusk – Second Place
Colston Whitehead – Harlem Shuffle
Robert Louis Stevenson – Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Best of 2015
January 10th, 2016
Film/TV |
 Alex Garland – Ex Machina |
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Sam Esmail – Mr. Robot
Damon Lindelof et al. – The Leftovers S.2
Steven Soderbergh – The Knick S.2
Miguel Gomes – As Mil E Uma Noites
Brigitte Sy – L’Astragale
Vince Gilligan et al. – Better Call Saul S.2
Ana Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Jesse Armstrong et al. – Peep Show S.9
Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson – Broad City
Fabrice Gobert et al. – Les Revenants S.2
Christian Petzold – Phoenix
Alex Ross Perry – Queen of Earth
Sarah-Violet Bliss & Charles Rogers – Fort Tilden
Carlo Bernard et al. – Narcos
Kornél Mundruczó – White God
George Miller – Mad Max Fury Road
João Salaviza – Montanha
Music
Filipe Felizardo – The Invading Past And Other
Aine O’Dwyer – Music For Church Cleaners Vol. 1 an 2
Colleen – Captain Of None
Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs
Nadine Byrne – A Different Gesture
FKA twigs – M3LL155X
Brian Reitzell – Hannibal OTS
A$AP Rocky – At. Long. Last. A$AP
Jamie xx – In Colour
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m goin down…
Joanna Newsom – Divers
Books
Tatiana Salem Levy – Dois Rios
Adorno/Scholem – Briefwechsel
Filipe Homem Fonseca – Há Sempre Tempo Para Mais Nada
Victor Palla & Costa Martins – Lisboa, Cidade Triste E Alegre
Bing Selfish – A.N.D./O-R
Joan Didion – Play It As It Lays
Beate und Serge Klarsfeld – Erinnerungen
Marion Giebel – Das Orakel von Delphi
Daryl Gregory – Afterparty
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism
Beatriz Preciado – Testo Junkie