Automatic quick fit bottom
I’ve been thinking about blogging again, and it seems appropriate for a writer to begin with a quote from a description sheet for an item I recently bought: Automatic quick...
G. at La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival
My daughter Esther discusses her film ‘G.’ at the La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival.
Break one, thousand will rise
—Lucille Clerc
Viewster Online Film Festival
Lola and Taro, two lonely children, live in the fairytale world of an abandoned attic, hidden from nameless danger. Despite her own needs, Lola looks after her small brother. One...
Women in Film
Esther wins the Best Women in Film Award from the Manchester International Short Film Festival for Merry-Go-Round.
Hallberg’s Early Humans
There’s been quite a bit of hype lately about Garth Risk Hallberg’s forthcoming debut novel City on Fire, and since million-dollar deals are a grand way to inspire envy in...
Swimming in gravy
My favourite ladle (from a Cape Town craftswoman)!
Epigraph
A friend sent me this quotation from Paul Klee, which I’m thinking of using as the epigraph to my new novel, Over Which Scavenger Angels. In any case, it is...
New German Directors’ Showcase
I’m terribly proud of my daughter Esther, who was recently awarded one of the New German Directors’ Showcase Awards. Here’s a still from The Egocentricity of Desire, Esther’s ‘impressive and...
James Bradley’s The Flats
I’m always pleased when a good writer offers a short story online, and James Bradley, Australian writer and critic, is better than good. On his website he has just posted...
Ego boost
I feel uncomfortable with self-promotion, but 2012 was a difficult year, with a number of health problems and far too little writing that I didn’t delete the next morning. So...
Merry-Go-Round
Merry-Go-Round an Esther Löwe film By unanimous decision, the jury of the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden (The German Film Council) has presented Merry-Go-Round with its coveted seal of approval, awarding it the...