Between Formalism and Politics: The Cinema of Walter Ruttmann
October 16, 2014
12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall lower level
Address
701 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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In this talk, Norbert Schmitz (art historian, media studies scholar and professor at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Keil) will address the political force of the avant-garde image in the films Berlin-Sinfonie einer Großstadt and Ruttman’s late documentary and propaganda films Mannesmann (1937), Henkel, ein deutsches Werk in seiner Arbeit (1938), Waffenkammern Deutschlands (1940) and Deutsche Panzer (1940). The talk will be in English and followed by a reception.
Norbert Schmitz’s research specialties include films of the classical avant-gard, aesthetic strategies of modernism and interactive media arts.
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