Inflation
Hans Richter DE, 1928, 3', 16 mm
Hans Richter's short films of the 1920s comprise surreal improvisations and exercises in montage, mixing animated geometric shapes, lines and light reflections, double-exposures and stop motion effects with photographs of real objects and human faces. Inflation, screened as the supporting film of Wilhelm Thiele’s movie The Lady with the Mask (1928), functions almost as a political cartoon that comments on the disastrous impacts of hyperinflation prior to the world economic crisis of 1929: the catastrophic climax shows the hard-earned savings of the man in the street melt away.
Fri 24/9 Kino SC 18:00
