V19

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

8.30 pm, Film in the K.I.E.Z.

"Berlin: Sinfonie einer Großstadt" G 2002

Director: Thomas Schadt
Screenplay: Thomas Schadt
Music: Helmut Oehring, Iris ter Schiphorst


Thomas Schadt’s black and white movie homage was devised as a re-interpretation of Walter Ruttmann’s documentary of 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a City. 80 years after the original, and two decades following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, this new aural and visual symphony also focuses on one day in the life of Berlin. Featuring lengthy shots, slowly paced cuts, a spare cinematic aesthetic and dispensing with any visual effects, the hustle and bustle and “new dawn” of Ruttmann’s film is replaced by a mood of melancholy. The audience easily accepts this aesthetic approach in view of the calamities and ruptures that Berlin suffered as a consequence of the Second World War. These events are reflected in music and image, which merge into one. The film’s symphonic soundtrack was created by this year’s Artist-in-Residence, the Berlin composer Helmut Oehring, in collaboration with composer Iris ter Schiphorst.  


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