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Eine kleine Auswahl an Medien, die uns geholfen haben, nicht verrückt zu werden in diesem brutalen Jahr 2020. Durch die Quarantäne hat sich der Unterschied, was als Kino, Streaming oder TV qualifiziert werden soll noch weiter verringert, da alles durch die selben Kanäle kommt.
Die Angst vor einem möglicherweise tödlichen Virus und die Konsequenzen daraus standen in diesem Jahr im Mittelpunkt – das schlägt sich aber nur bedingt in unserer Auswahl nieder, mit ein paar Rückgriffen auf ältere Literatur und einem Film, wo das Thema schon erstaunlich authentisch abgehandelt wurde.

Das freie Durchstreifen unbekannter Orte, das Entdecken neuer Talente und Eintauchen in unmittelbare musikalische Welten muss auf das neue Jahr warten. In diesem Sinne wünschen wir uns und allen Ausdauer, Gesundheit und viel positive Energie für 2021.

Music

Kara-Lis Coverdale – Grafts

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Cloth – Cloth

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Andrew Wasylyk – Fugitive Light & Themes Of Cosolation

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Πρόδρομος Τσαυσάκης – 14 μεγάλα τραγούδια

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Ai Aso – The Faintest Hint

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Phew – Vertigo KO

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Jarv is  – Beyond The Pale

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Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song

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S.E. Rogie – various

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Craven Faults – Enclosure

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Polido – Sabor A Terra / A Casa E Os Cães

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Miaux – Black Space, White Cloud

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γιαννάκης ιωαννίδης – Επιθεώρηση Και Ρεμπέτικο (1925 – 1935)

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Cassini Division – Eta Carinae

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Drumming GP, Joana Gama, Luís Fernandes – Textures &/ Lines

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The Orielles – Disco Volador

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Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης – 40 χρόνια

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Working Men’s Club – WMC

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Sabaturin – Kenemglev

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Tara Clerkin Trio – Dito

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Jon Brooks – How To Get To Spring

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David Boulter – Yarmouth

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Joanne Robertson – Painting Stupid Girls

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Film/TV

Ari Aster – Midsommar (director’s cut), 2019

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Kitty Green – The Assistant, 2019

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Alex Garland – Devs, TV Mini-Series 2020

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Theodoros Angelopoulos – Μέρες του ’36 (Days of 36), 1972

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Bong Joon Ho – Okja, 2017

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Micah Bloomberg, Eli Horowitz, Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Homecoming S2, TV Series

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Jessica Hausner – Little Joe, 2019

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Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round, 2020

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Scott Frank, Allan Scott – The Queens Gambit, TV Mini-Series 2020

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Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always, 2020

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Karim Aïnouz – A Vida Invisível (Invisible life), 2019

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Steven Soderbergh – Contagion, 2011

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Hirokazu Koreeda – Like Father Like Son, 2013

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Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things, 2020

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Books

Michael Wildenhain – Das Lächeln Der Alligatoren

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Niall Griffiths – Broken Ghost

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Sophia De Mello Breyner – Poemas/Gedichte (Textura)

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Mark O’Connell – Notes From An Apocalyse

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Grit Weber, Annika Sellmann, Prof. Dr. Klaus Klemp, Prof. Matthias Wagner K – Moderne Am Main 1919 – 33

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Mary Shelley – The Last Man

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Boris and Arkady Strugatsky – Snail on the Slope (Улитка на склоне)

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Paulo Varela Gomes – Era Uma Vez Em Goa

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Joanna Zylinska – Nonhuman Photography

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David Mitchell – Slade House

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Jeff Young – Ghost Town

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Ali Smith – Winter

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Albert Camus – Die Pest

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Giles Laurén – Diodorus Siculus I: The Historical Library in Forty Books

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Peter Kurzeck – Vorabend

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Geraldine Quigley – Music Love Drugs War

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Misc.

Anja Burse –  Ianos Photo Competition 2020 ‘Quarantine Diary’ winner

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Mikrowellen is celebrating its second year in the interweb! We use this occasion to present our Highlights of 2010, in no particular order, cutting across all media and events.

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music	JG Thirlwell: Manorexia – The Mesopelagic Waters Richard Skelton: Landings Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma These New Puritans: Hidden Phew: 5 Finger Discount Sei Miguel: Esfíngico Lula Pena: Troubadour Ela Orleans: Lost Konrad Becker: Grand Piano Classics Sachiko: Kunado The Magic Theatre: London Town Dolly Mixture: Everything and More (Re-Issue) Zeitkratzer: James Tenney Zeitkratzer – John Cage Marc Almond: Varieté The Drums: The Drums Broadcast & The Focus Group: Ghost Box Study Series Reines d’Angleterre: Les Comores The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume One
film/tv	Shutter Island, Martin Scorcese A Serious Man, Ethan & Joel Coen Catfish, Joost/Schuleman Lourdes, Jessica Hausner Four Lions, Christopher Morris Metropolis Reconstructed, Fritz Lang Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera Mad Men, Series 4, Matthew Weiner Rubicon, Series 1, Jason Horwitch True Blood, Series 4, Alan Ball Louie, Series 1, Louis CK
books	Rivka Galchen: Atmosphärische Störungen João Tordo: O Bom Inverno Nick Dyer-Witheford & Greig de Peuter: Games of Empire Benjamin Moser: Why This World, A Biography of Clarice Lispector Hannah Arendt & Gershom Sholem: Der Briefwechsel Valter Hugo Mãe: A Máquina de Fazer Espanhóis
concerts	Maja Ratke @ Méteo, Mulhouse Wolf Eyes @ Kilbi, Bad Bonn Michael Rother @ Kilbi, Bad Bonn Charlotte Gainsbourg @ Cirque Royal, Bruxelles
misc.	Wikileaks Google’s Nexus One with Android Apple’s Macbook Air
disappointments	Craig Venter, Entrepreneur with a God-complex Ray Kurzweil, ‘Transhumanist’ Lost, Series 6 (last Series), Abrams/Lieber/Lindelof Jaron Lanier: You are not a Gdget iPad, Apple’s Tablet-PC Diaspora, self-designated Facebook alternative Swineflu
R.I.P.	Dennis Hopper, Actor and Icon Malcom McLaren, Artist Captain Beefheart, Musician and Painter Martin Büsser, Writer, Ed. Testcard, Ventil Verlag Christoph Schlingensief, Theatre-Maker Claude Chabrol, Filmmaker Alex Chilton, Musician Ari Up, Original Punk, Singer of The Slits Prince Chunk, fat cat Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, Composer Sigmar Polke, Painter Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, Founding Member of Throbbing Gristle

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