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Sep 7, 2022 · THE UNDERCURRENTS: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell. When we first glimpse Kirsty Bell, she is on her own, a foreigner in Berlin, dealing with a pool of water on her kitchen floor. Her German...
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Feb 21, 2024 · Kirsty Bell is a writer and curator based in Berlin, who explores the intersections of art, architecture, and urbanism. She has published books on Berlin, Edward Hopper, and the undercurrents of the city, and has curated exhibitions on topics such as space, material, and color.
Mar 10, 2022 · With sleuthing interest and novelistic flair, Kirsty Bell’s The Undercurrents has ruptured familiar terrain. The book’s subject, Berlin, is portrayed as a thing in motion, captured through a compound lens of culture, hard history and memoir.
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones.
Jan 1, 2022 · The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones.
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Kirsty Bell is a UK based filmmaker who has produced over 90 feature films and directed her debut feature A Bird Flew In. She is also an actress who has appeared in films such as An Irish Goodbye and The Siege.
The Undercurrents. A Story of Berlin. Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.
