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Berlin Air


Street jazz at Gendarmenmarkt square in Berlin , Germany, September 2013. I did not get any closer , so no idea who played…sorry. Berlin Air | 20200909 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

❤️ 2 Russia


❤️ 2 Russia ~ “With love to Russia” – Kiss-in protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin against controversial anti-gay law in Russia. Under the motto “Enough is enough” , with the slogans “With love to Russia”, and “Putin go homo” demonstrators carried posters with the portrait of president Putin with heavy makeup (speech notes below).

Speech notes :

Berlin history shows : It is a small step from exclusion to violence. We here are kissing men and kissing women out in the open , just like it shows in the nearby ‘Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism’. A warning to all of us. That is why we protest here at the embassy of Russia against criminalizing kissing.

Shit , this is a Kiss-in , go on , go kiss , smooch, each other ! Mr Putin lets make love. Like men can have a women bosses , and Blacks can sit in the front of a bus in the US, and now have a black president. Don’t be afraid of kissing people… All you need is Love. With Love to Russia! Think about it , love is not a fuckin crime – Rather then applaud , smooch, each other , it’s a Kiss-in.

Second edition (20200908) of film first published at Vimeo and 1-memo.com dd 20160724 . Unter den Linden , Berlin , Germany, September 8, 2013

❤️ 2 Russia | 20200908 | 20160724 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Berlin 1933


Diversity Destroyed / Zerstörte Vielfalt 1933 – 1938. City of Berlin theme year 2013 of commemoration, remembrance, warning and discussion of the Nazis’ assumption of power in 1933 and the pogroms of 1938. Unter den Linden , Berlin , Germany, September 8, 2013. Berlin 1933 | 20200908 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Film and Photographic Studies

Film and Photographic Studies ~
Start of lectures Histories and Theories of Photography, September 2008, here with Rachel Esner discussing On the Art of French Calotype. Film and Photographic Studies by the Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts and Faculty of Humanities of the Leiden University – Pieter de la Court building , Leiden, Holland. Video with the tiny SONY DSC-T10 camera. Film and Photographic Studies | 20200905 | 1-memo.com