Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

6.0/101h 1m2001
Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

Overview

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…

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

BR
Diorama Film

Additional Information

Original Title:Lotte Reiniger – Hommage an die Erfinderin des Silhouetten Films
Original Language:English
Status:Released

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