TofPosseIch teile hier im Fediverse jetzt gerne auch den aktuellen Post von der neu gegründeten wiener Gruppe der Artists Against Antisemitism:
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Tom"… the shadows themselves are lit and shadowed … [spatial] contradictions structure the interiors … this villain, Dr Caligari, has himself been driven mad by knowledge … [society] and delusion are coextensive and the degenerate Venn diagram of the mad and the living is a circle."
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A ★★★★★ review of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
One hundred years since it first appeared, THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI is a reminder of the vitality of the emerging medium of film at the end of the "long century" up to WWI. Films of the time screened silently, spliced with text, often accompanied by live music, the conventions of their grammars not yet congealed into habits. The close-up was in its infancy and disciplines such as production design, montage and acting for camera could be overturned by each new picture. CALIGARI, after its release, brought a German Expressionist cinema to international attention and decisively influenced the works of