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German ExpressionismFilm 7 of 19
Warning Shadows
Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination
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Arthur Robison, Pan-Film, 1923. A jealous husband (Fritz Kortner), his wife, four admirers, and a traveling shadow-player (Alexander Granach) who puts their evening on the wall. Albin Grau designed it. Fritz Arno Wagner lit it. The 1923 release had no story titles, only credits. Distributors later added cards because audiences complained they were lost. Restorations usually put you back in the first version. That is the film.
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A film about watching, made without story titles. The moment the shadow-player draws the guests' shadows off their bodies and onto the wall is the movement saying out loud what it thinks cinema is.
The Supernatural and the Occult
Shadows that do not belong to anyone, literally. A traveling shadow-player pulls the guests' shadows off their bodies and stages their evening on the wall. No story titles in the first release. The uncanny as a projector trick, which is to say, as cinema.
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