Charlie Bertsch
Music and Film Editor at The Battleground
I write. I edit. I teach. And I love a cherry pie. You can also find me @cbertsch.bsky.social
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3 weeks ago |
thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
That’s why the band’s music resonates so powerfully today when authoritarian populism is driving us headlong into the past. I’ve been a huge fan of Stereolab from the moment I first heard them. Come to think of it, I was already sold on their aesthetic as soon as I heard about them. But their music surpassed my expectations by a wide margin. What explains this devotion, one I share with many people of my generation?
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1 month ago |
thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
The Oscar-winning documentary shows how precarious life is for the residents of Masafer Yatta, a collection of 19 Palestinian hamlets in the southern West Bank, and contrasts it with the more privileged existence of Israelis. Throughout the film, we see how the Palestinian community responds to the systematic destruction of their homes. Because there is no hope of challenging Israel’s military might directly, they must engage in asymmetrical resistance.
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1 month ago |
thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
When Richard Linklater’s 1990 film hit theatres, it was largely treated as a humorous novelty, distilling the character – and the real-life characters – in the state capital of Texas that would later inspire a campaign to “Keep Austin Weird.”As that slogan poignantly underscores, the high-tech boom of the 1990s and the high-income but low-curiosity white-collar workers who came with it soon threatened to deprive the mid-size city of the alternative culture that had made it special.
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1 month ago |
thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
Even the most beat-forward tracks, “Oneironaut sei wachsam” and “Die Ratten”, sound like they are being ripped apart by centrifugal force. Others, such as “Souterrain” and the finale “Nichts”, feel like dispatches from the ruins mentioned in the album’s title, pieced together from fragments that exhibit magnetic repulsion. Once you know that Das Kinn (The Chin) is the name Frankfurt sound artist Toben Piel chose for his one-man band, this makes a lot of sense.
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1 month ago |
thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
Abyss draws from all of Anika’s previous work, which ranges from the crackly, dub-adjacent grooves of her eponymous debut, through the muscular post-punk she released with the group Exploded View, to the delicate, ambient-inflected soundscapes of 2023’s Eat Liquid. The result is a supple mode of Dark Wave, accessible to a broad audience, but still tough as nails.
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I stopped posting on Twitter regularly long before Elon, after my account got hacked in the Obama days. But I have kept track of friends here. Now I‘m trying BlueSky out, so if you are over there, look for me: https://t.co/v6V5Qk3rGu
I have a new piece up at @BattlegroundEU on Walter Ruttmann’s 1927 film Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis and why it’s better suited to contemporary distracted movie-watching than much much recent pictures. https://t.co/hrq6RdgJQX
I have a new piece up at https://t.co/DhSIPiiuAJ on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1964 film Red Desert, one of my all-time favorites, despite -- or because of -- its existential bleakness: https://t.co/6VuN0CZMso https://t.co/myJssP5hun