Marion Hänsel was a French-born Belgian film director and screenwriter.
I remember quite vividly when I saw the trailer of Dust (1985) when I was twenty.
Dust is an adaptation of a novel by Coetzee, his second novel.
Monthly Archives: June 2020
RIP Bonnie Pointer (1950 – 2020)
Bonnie Pointer was an American singer, part of the The Pointer Sisters.
The Pointer Sisters also did background vocals on “God Make Me Funky” (1975) by The Headhunters, the American jazz-funk fusion band led by Herbie Hancock.
RIP Bob Northern (1934 – 2020)
Bob Northern was an American jazz French hornist.
Sound Awareness (1972) was one of the nine records David Toop recently posted on his Facebook as documents from the audio recorded stage of an internal war of 400plus years (in which many were complicit).
RIP Bruce Jay Friedman (1930 – 2020)
Bruce Jay Friedman was an American author and screenwriter.
He is noted for his anthology Black Humor: Anthology (1965), a book in the tradition of André Breton’s Anthology of Black Humor (1940).
Friedman appears to have been a nobrow figure being active in the pulps as well as in serious literature.
RIP Christo (1935–2009)
Christo was a Bulgarian-American artist best-known for wrapping up monument-sized objects.