Writing

Rainer Maria Rilke

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MetropolesMetropoles · 1975
Metropoles
10.01975
Movie
This is an experimental film featuring an allegorical audiovisual symphony of image, text (excerpts from works by Proust and verses from Rilke’s poetry) and music through the use of archival photographs taken from Illustration Magazine. It focuses on the urban establishment and links the wave of Western colonization to the period right before the Great War (1914-1918).
UrubusUrubus · 2021
Urubus
7.22021
MovieDrama
Trinchas and his gang of graffiti taggers risk their lives climbing tall buildings to sign their names up there. When he falls for Valéria - an art graduate student -, they shake the international art scene.
AnaAna · 1982
Ana
7.21982
MovieDrama
Centered on an elderly matriarch and her family in the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal. An exploration of the cycle of life and death, using the main character, Ana, as an emblem of a life lived in harmony with nature and tradition.
The SwarmersThe Swarmers · 2022
The Swarmers
10.02022
MovieDrama
Karla doesn't have it easy as a newcomer at boarding school. Between bullying and exclusion, the 16-year-old is confronted with power struggles amongst teenagers. This adaptation of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Gym Class" shows Karla's attempt at dealing with these challenges.
HerbstHerbst · 2016
Herbst
2016
Movie
An unseen teacher becomes frustrated as they try to teach a poem to a stuffed toy.
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried MePoem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me · 2003
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
9.52003
MovieDrama
A series of poems.
The Greater CirculationThe Greater Circulation · 2005
The Greater Circulation
2005
MovieDrama
1908, Paris. Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, poet Rainer Maria Rilke encounters the ghost of his good friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after giving birth to her first child. In response to this haunting, Rilke writes his epic prose lament, "Requiem for a Friend", as a tribute to Paula and to women torn between choosing a life sacrificed to Art or to Motherhood. One hundred years later, three women - a painter, an actress and a dancer - and a theatre director prepare to stage Rilke's "Requiem" in Berkeley California as abstract performance ritual.

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