New Substack up - about the star of my film open.substack.com/pub/fourssqu...
Rest in Peace, Reiner
We lost the star of the movie.
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Ben Knight
@benwernerknight.bsky.social
Journalist, Filmmaker https://wereallgoingtodiefilm.com/ https://fourssquaremealsfromruin.substack.com/ http://benknight.de/
Here's my long piece in the Saturday Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Turn off the juice of the rulers!’ Who are the Volcano Group, mystery saboteurs behind a five-day Berlin blackout?
Earlier this year, the city was hit by its longest power cut since the second world war. But were those responsible eco-terrorists, agents of the far-right, or even Russian proxies?
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New Substack out... The story of Larry, some filing cabinets, and an ongoing catastrophe open.substack.com/pub/fourssqu...
The Ghost Dance
On Larry and the filing cabinets, and the ongoing genocide of the Native Americans.
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New Substack about a banal dream I had substack.com/home/post/p-...
Fascist Dreams
How dull dreams can turn out to be
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My reading and interview on DLF Kultur - (Achtung, auf Deutsch!) www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ben-knight-w...
Ben Knight: "Wir müssen alle sterben" - Preppen fürs Ende der Welt
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Off to Leipzig this week to present my book auf Deutsch...
Kommt am 25. Februar! Merkwürdige Geschichten und Reportagen aus meinen Begegnungen am Ende der Welt - ein bisschen wie im Film aber nicht ganz. Hier schon zum vorbestellen: www.buechner-verlag.de/.../wir-mues... Dank an den Büchner Verlag und viele andere Menschen....
Off to the great town of Gießen tomorrow to watch our movie with not one but two Professor Doctors (yikes) and workshop with some graduate students who will almost certainly be cleverer than me and who I should probably have talked to before I made the thing in the first place.
- Lawyer takes on hopeless case - Improbably attractive psychoanalyst gets involved in crime with improbably attractive patient - Anything where journalists are the goodies - Court case turns on unlikely loophole - People walking along corridors, shouting things dramatically, and slamming doors
Marie Phillips@mariephillips.bsky.social · 9mo agoTop 5 movie genres: - Does this robot / monster have a soul? (Yes it does) - Sassy New York newspaper gal does not need love but finds it anyway - I travelled in time or space. It was a mistake. - You’re supposed to be the victim of my crime but I love you - Being a detective is miserable but hot
Party in real life in Berlin to celebrate my movie going online - next Wednesday! www.eventbrite.de/e/were-all-g...
We're All Going To Die Online
A free IRL party to celebrate the online release of "We're All Going To Die", the prize-winning mostly funny documentary about global dread.
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New Substack out! On right-wing prepping, left-wing anti-prepping, and the secrets of the free-living, non-parasitic nematode. fourssquaremealsfromruin.substack.com/p/gerhards-w...
Gerhard’s Worms (or, "One Battle After Another" Brandenburg-style)
About the time I met a German leftist who had his own special plan for tricking preppers in the end times.
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Decided it was up to me to settle this once and for all fourssquaremealsfromruin.substack.com/p/the-best-g...
The best Godzilla film
If you want to understand collapse, look no further than the biggest and most reptilian movie franchise.
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
Our movie is now available to rent or buy (in different versions) here: wagtd.vhx.tv
We're All Going To Die (Eng OV)
Ben is afflicted by the all-encompassing crises he is condemned to write about, so he travels from Berlin to Kansas to Norway and finally the centre of all loss, the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, to lea...
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You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
I think this should always be posted alongside that video of David Bowie going on about how amazing the internet is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYs7...
Poet John Cooper Clarke on the dangers of owning a computer (Very Funny)
YouTube video by Cormac Barry
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The one day a year I get to show off my sad addiction to second-hand bookshops
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · last yr.Some nice-looking books I own, for #WorldBookDay. Please reply with some nice-looking books you own.
Excited to be showing my doc one more time next Friday in Berlin - FOR FREE! Reserve tix here: www.eventbrite.com/e/were-all-g...
reading Will Tavlin’s terrific feature about netflix’s business practices and man, it is just hard out there right now for artists in every respect www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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Berliners! My film's STILL ON at the Tilsiter Lichtspiele, F'hain Best to go on your own, channel your Travis Bickle and stare at the screen while everyone else is out distracting themselves from death on the cold, rainy streets of Friedrichshain. tilsiter-lichtspiele.de/kinoprogramm...
Lovely bit of film history on YouTube: George Lucas' short documentary from 1968 about his mate Francis Ford Coppola www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEy...
Filmmaker: a Diary by George Lucas (1968)
YouTube video by Александр Евдокимов
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Last stop on the movie tour (for now)! Thanks for having us, Casablanca, clearly the best Kino in Nürnberg. Special thanks to Christoph Forster for the expert moderation and philosophy prof Dagmar Kiesel for the excellent post-screening chat!
Tickets on sale now for our next screening at the Tilsiter Lichtspiele in Berlin! Saturday, November 23, 2pm tilsiter-lichtspiele.de/kinoprogramm...
My movie is currently on in a few Kinos in DE and Ö - long live indie cinemas everywhere wereallgoingtodiefilm.com
Latest dispatch from the day job: www.dw.com/en/germany-w...
Germany: What can Chancellor Olaf Scholz still get done? – DW – 11/15/2024
Lame duck? Not quite: Chancellor Olaf Scholz is determined to use his last weeks in office with a minority government to pass what he believes are vital laws. But he is relying on the opposition to ma...
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Berliners! Our movie is on next Tuesday for one night only, 12th November, 8pm - in the legendary Z-Bar in Mitte Auf Engl m. Deu UT Q&A with me and producer Maurice Frank - as well as cameraman Ingo J. Biermann! Reserve tickets by email at: zinema@gmx.de zbarberlin.com/kino-z-inema/
