Weekly Filet #197: A most wanted movie. And more.
1. Citizenfour
With some brief exceptions, it appeared as if it would be easier to meet Edward Snowden in person than to actually find «Citizenfour», the now Oscar-winning documentary about him, online. I've been lucky to see it, but didn't want to recommend something so hard to get hold of. Now that the film is coming to theatres across the globe, it's time to tell you to go watch it. «Citizenfour» is a close, sometimes even intimate account of an extraordinary man and a great look behind the scenes of the biggest journalistic story in many years.
2. What It’s Like To See 100 Million Colors (New York Magazine)
An interview with a tetrachromat, a woman who can see 100 times more colours than the average person. Things will get really messy once she joins the debate on the dress.
3. My Saga, Part 1 (The New York Times Magazine)
You know you're in Karl Ove Knausgaard's weird, wonderful world when a road trip through North America starts without a driver's license and the plan to write about it without talking to a single American.
4. Feedom Summer by Ecco (Bandcamp)
This record has been in my ears ever since I discovered it a week ago. A band from California that sounds irritatingly similar to Sigur Ros, but then again, that's a good thing, isn't it?
5. First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist (Quartz)
If this text makes your head explode, fear not: By 2017, you could have a new one transplanted onto your body. What could possibly go wrong?
Recommended by Lara Fritzsche: When your father is the BTK serial killer, forgiveness is not tidy (The Wichita Eagle)
Kerri asked friends: «Don’t tag our children» on Facebook. When friends asked why, she didn’t know how to answer them. She told some of them that «my dad did something terrible.»
«What?»
«Just Google me.»
And they would. And then: «Oh.»
Kerri Rawsons father killed at least ten people and she has to live with it.
February guest curator: Lara Fritzsche is one of my favourite journalists. She works for SZ Magazin in Munich. You can follow Lara on Twitter, which you probably should. If you understand German, check out her new website, lots of great writing to find there.