Der heilige Berg
Weimar Republic, 106 min
^ Riefenstahl’s debut
+ poster
Archive for the ‘1926’ Category
The Holy Mountain (Arnold Fanck, 1926)
February 4, 2010Anémic Cinéma (Marcel Duchamp, 1926)
February 16, 2009Fr. 6 min.
Alternating spiral designs and disks with nonsense puns and rhymes create a hypnotic short film based on the ideas of film as a unique art form- separating it from the fundamental ideas of theater and literature- cinéma pur. What can one accomplish with moving visual imagery that one cannot with any other art form?
The music is by Japanese electronic artist Nobukazu Takemura, and the song is Part 4 of his 2002 Water Music suite. This also aims to create an atmosphere with a new medium- electronic music, that would be impossible to create in any other medium. Both music and imagery lack progression, instead creating atmosphere by a sense of continuity and repetition.
Nobukazu Takemura wiki :: official page
Emak-Bakia (Man Ray, 1926)
February 15, 2009
Ménilmontant (Dmitri Karsanoff, 1926)
February 13, 2009Fr. 38 min.
Ménilmontant takes its name from a neighborhood in Paris, and is set in the early industrial era. The film follows two women who were traumatically orphaned in their youth, and tells a story without the use of intertitles. The score by Paul Mercer was haunting and added much to my experience.
La Seine coule près
je peut mais observer
