Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film 2001
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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…
- Released: 2001-11-20
- Runtime: 61 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Lotte Reiniger
- Director: Katja Raganelli, Katja Raganelli, Konrad Wickler, Camilla Bernetti
