Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film
It’s quite telling that Katja Raganelli chose the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger as her gateway figure into German cinema’s past. Like Alice Guy-Blaché, she was prolific, and worked in all kinds of formats, including commercials and animated interludes for fiction features. More than Guy-Blaché, though, she was an inventor of forms and techniques whose genius was admired by the likes of Bertolt Brecht. It says a lot about film history that Reiniger remains still a specialists’ darling…
Directed by Katja Raganelli · Written by Katja Raganelli
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Lotte Reiniger Herself (archive footage)
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2h 3m together
Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film
I Am Wanda
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