Weimar Nightmares in New York

Until March 7, Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in association Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Stiftung of Wiesbaden, Germany, and Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin present “the most comprehensive exhibition surveying the extraordinarily fertile and influential period in German filmmaking between the two world wars.” Further to MoMA, “It was during this period that film matured from a silent, visually expressive art into one circumscribed yet enlivened by language, music and sound effects.”

Curated by MoMA Department of Film’s Laurence Kardish and Kinemathek’s Eva Orbanz, the series shows 75 features and six shorts under the headline of “Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares.” An accompanying Titus Theater lobby exhibition was organized by Ronald S. Magliozzi with Kardish and Rajendra Roy and displays posters and photographs of Weimar filmmaking. Also included are “rare studio presentation books” that department founder, Iris Barry, acquired during her 1937 tour of Europe. “The selection attests to the German film industry‘s distinguished application of design and graphics to the promotion of the medium in the period,” MoMA noted. For those who can’t make it, there is always the 224-page illustrated publication (www.momastore.org ).

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Full media release: 

MoMA PRESENTS THE MOST EXTENSIVE EXHIBITION OF WEIMAR CINEMA EVER MOUNTED IN THE UNITED STATES

Four-Month Exhibition Includes Over 80 Films, Many Rare, a Selection of Original Weimar Movie Posters, and the Release of New Publication

Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares
November 17, 2010–March 7, 2011
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters

The Museum of Modern Art, in association with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden and in cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, presents Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares, the most comprehensive exhibition surveying the extraordinarily fertile and influential period in German filmmaking between the two world wars. It was during this period that film matured from a silent, visually expressive art into one circumscribed yet enlivened by language, music and sound effects. This four-month series includes 75 feature-length films and 6 shorts―a mix of classic films and many motion pictures unseen since the 1930s―and opens with the newly discovered film Ins Blaue Hinein (Into the Blue) (1929), by Eugene Schüfftan, the special effects artist and master cinematographer originally renowned for his work on Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). Running November 17, 2010 through March 7, 2011, Weimar Cinema is augmented by an exhibition of posters and photographs of Weimar filmmaking in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1 Lobby Galleries and an illustrated publication, which includes an extensive filmography supplemented by German criticism and essays by leading scholars of the period.

The film portion of the exhibition is organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, and Eva Orbanz, Senior Curator, Special Projects, Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen. The gallery exhibition is organized by Ronald S. Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, with Laurence Kardish and Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

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