Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film (2001)

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

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

61 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Katja Raganelli

TMDB rating

7.0/10 from 2 votes