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June 13, 2007

eine Postkarte von Berlin

David Jeffers

Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927)
Friday June 15, 7:00 & 9:30 p.m., The Triple Door

Beginning with the pre-dawn ferocity of a locomotive roaring into the city, Walther Ruttmann’s cinematic tone poem Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927) hurls through a day in the life of grim Weimar fortitude and resilient humanity lurking beneath the controlled chaos of mechanized modernity.

Challenging himself as an art student to reach beyond traditional methods, Ruttmann sought to make his images move by literally painting on glass in his earliest films (Opus I – IV). As an interpretive abstraction, Symphony of a City represents a departure from conventional documentary filmmaking. Ruttmann assaults his audience with an organic visualization of the city in five acts, as his camera moves through the day, into steel mills and city parks, among the wealthy and the impoverished, while children play and factories roar. Words from a newspaper fly off the screen: Murder! Marriage! Money! Money! Money! A wild eyed

woman throws herself from a bridge and disappears into the dark water while office workers feverishly pound their typewriters, lovers boat on a peaceful city lake, businessmen fight in the street and nightclubs reverberate in a jazz infused alcoholic frenzy.

First performed on September 23, 1927 at Berlin’s Tauentzien-Palast with a score written and conducted by Edmund Meisel, Symphony of a City, was a kinetic alliance of music and images. As a theatrical experience, the unfathomable depth of subject matter and brilliance of editing fully retain the cacophonic impact of Ruttmann’s intimate and unsettling urban postcard.

Seattle International Film Festival presents Berlin Symphony of a City in its ongoing Face the Music Live series, with live accompaniment performed by Sub-Pop recording artists Kinski.

Posted by David Jeffers at June 13, 2007 11:00 PM
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