The best films, albums and games …

… that I’ve seen, heard and played this year but that aren’t necessarily from 2015.

2015 was a year of turmoil. I’ve been confronted with radical changes and demands and managed to stay strong until the dust settled after all. It’s been a year of growth, of conflict and the arrival in a new phase of life for me. All these different forms of experiences were accompanied by the following works that moved and/or entertained me deeply:

The best films that I’ve (re)discovered and seen this year:

• It follows (David Robert Mitchell)
• Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
• A most violent Year (J.C. Chandor)
• The Guest (Adam Wingard)
• Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
• Loin des hommes (David Oelhoffen)
• Wild Tales (Damián Szifrón)
• Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
• Turbo Kid (François Simard, Anouk Whissell)
• The Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
• Network (Sidney Lumet)
• The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
• The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
• Knightriders (George A. Romero)
• Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
• Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)

 

The best albums that I’ve (re)discovered and listened to this year:

• November Növelet – The World in Devotion
• Björk – Vulnicura
• Stephan Bodzin – Powers of Ten
• Distel – Zand
• Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol. 3
• Anna von Hauswolff – The Miraculous
• Barnett + Collocia – Weld
• Le Matos – Chronicles of the Wasteland
• George Fitzgerald – Fading Love
• Swarm Intelligence – Rust
• Flint Glass & Collapsar – Deus Irae
• Okada – Impermanence
• Squarepusher – Damogen Furies
• Talvekoidik – Spitzbergen
• Supersimmetria – Kosmogonie
• Various – 25 Years of Hands
• Aphexia – Breathe
• Fort Romeau – Insides
• Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls
• 2kilos &More – Lieux-Dits
• Bersarin Quartett – III
• Holly Herndon – Platform
• Kangding Ray – Cory Arcane
• Marsimoto – Ring der Nebelungen
• Max Richter – Sleep
• Synapscape – Rhythm Age
• Tropic of Cancer – Stop suffering
• MG – MG
• Nick Höppner – Folk
• Ricardo Donoso – Machine to Machine
• Robot Koch – Hypermoment
• Steve Hauschildt – Where all is fled
• Vessels – Dilate
• Kreng – The Summoner
• The Body – I shall die here

The best games that I’ve (re)discovered and played this year:

• Bloodborne
• Her Story
• Metal Gear V: The Phantom Pain
• Dropsy
• Until Dawn