Lotte Reiniger: Dance of the Shadows ( Lotte Reiniger - Tanz der Schatten )

Lotte Reiniger: Dance of the Shadows (DVD) (*)

$30.99

Original Title: Lotte Reiniger - Tanz der Schatten
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
German ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
60 min + 9 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Rada Bieberstein
Susanne Marschall

Written By:
Rada Bieberstein
Kurt Schneider

Actors:
Lotte Reiniger ..... Herself (archive footage)
Michel Ocelot ..... Himself
Hannes Rall ..... Himself
Pierre Oser ..... Himself
Helga Happ ..... Herself
Alfred Happ ..... Himself
Christel Strobel ..... Herself

Synopsis:

The film Lotte Reiniger - Dance of the Shadows takes the actuality of the work of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger. Contemporary filmmakers and animation artists in films like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (D: David Yates, GB/USA 2010) or Tales of the Night (D: Michel Ocelot, F 2011) are inspired by her for a new examination of the silhouette film and the shadow theater, whose development has been decisively advanced by the woman from Berlin. Starting point for the film was the extensive legacy of the filmmaker at the City Museum of Tuebingen. Lotte Reiniger spent her last year of life in Dettenhausen near Tuebingen, where she is also buried. The search starts therefore in Tuebingen, to then sweep into the distance, to Berlin and London, the important destinations in her life. The central topics of the film are imagination, movement and dance, ornament and music of the magical films by Lotte Reiniger. Animation artists and filmmakers such as Hannes Rall and Michel Ocelot were interviewed and tell about Lotte Reiniger's influence on their own films. The film is made by the authors Susanne Marschall, Rada Bieberstein and Kurt Schneider as part of a teaching research project with students.

It is not Walt Disney - as is often claimed - whom we have to thank for the first feature-length animated film in history, but the German film artist Lotte Reiniger. In 1926 this virtuoso of the art of silhouette film worked her magic and brought "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" to the silent film screen. She had invented a new kind of artistic film somewhere between the aestheticism of Jugendstil, expressionism and magical fairytales. Whilst her husband, Carl Koch, perfected the multiplane camera and the animation table, Lotte Reiniger developed one figure after another and filmed their movements with extreme patience. The sixty minute documentary "Lotte Reiniger - Dance of the shadows" shows the topicality of Reiniger who even today has an inspiring effect on the art of young animation filmmakers worldwide. Film artists such as Michel Ocelot and Hannes Rall comment on the effects of her work which thanks to the animation of Ben Hibons reaches into the magical world of Harry Potter. The film superimposes the artist's own life experience on to her work and contains newly discovered material which shows Lotte Reiniger working on her last film in Canada. The film was made at the Department for Film and Television Science at the Institute of Media Studies, Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. Lecturers and students studying for a master's, supported by a professional film team and the town museum of Tübingen, worked together on an ambitious project which focused on the re-discovery of an important film artist.

Documentary about the silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 May, 2013.

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