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[Jens Thiel | 4 Mar 2010 | No Comment]
The Movie/ der Film in Dessau-Rosslau

Wir zeigen den Dokumentarfilm am Sonntag, 7. März um 15 Uhr im Kiezkino Dessau-Rosslau. Der Produzent Tobias Walker und Jens Thiel werden anwesend sein, die Regisseurin Frauke Finsterwalder wird via Skype Video aus Buenos Aires zugeschaltet. Hier der Flyer mit allen Informationen.
We will be screening the documentary this Sunday, March 7, 3 p.m. at the Dessau-Rosslau Kiezkino. Tobias Walker from the production company and Jens Thiel will be present, director Frauke Finsterwalder will be available via Skype video. Here´s the flyer.

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[Jens Thiel | 4 Mar 2010 | No Comment]
German TV mdr about the movie

Closing sentence/Schlussatz: “Der Film begleitet ruhig den rasanten Aufstieg und Fall einer etwas wahnsinnigen Idee, die am Ende des Films gar nicht mehr so wahnsinnig scheint und vielleicht doch noch nicht am Ende ist.”

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[Jens Thiel | 25 Jan 2010 | One Comment]
“Die Große Pyramide” documentary movie out

The documentary Frauke Finsterwalder and her team shot in 2007/2008 when we introduced the project for the first time, has premiered in the competition section of the Saarbrücken Max-Ophüls-Preis film festival last Thursday. It was a good event for several reasons. Firstly, it turned out great. Not everybody was entirely sure what the result would be and it took long hard work to finish the movie – but in the end it became a fascinating record of those busy and exhausting one and a half years, that also does not …

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[Jens Thiel | 15 Nov 2009 | 3 Comments]
Relaunch

We have a relaunch, a complete one actually: a new website, a new approach and a new team coming together. The Great Pyramid project was dead since I had left the association and I just couldn´t accept to see the idea going down or being hi-jacked as some conceptual media art project. Throughout the remaining weeks of 2009 we will …

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[Jens Thiel | 3 Nov 2009 | One Comment]
A reply to Ingo Niermann

Yesterday, my former colleague Ingo Niermann posted a little text, that surprised me, since it is full of obvious, verifiable inaccuracies – to put it nicely – and falls far short of the usual coherent standard of his work.

Click the image to read on.

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[Jens Thiel | 23 Oct 2009 | No Comment]
We are live editing the new website

This website had been on hiatus for quite a few months. We are now in the process of relaunching it over this October weekend. You may want to come back next week for an all new, improved thegreatpyramid.org.
Update 30 October 2009: Almost there. All functionalities and contents soon.
Photo courtesy of Emily Barney´s flickr.