Hommage to La Sarraz

Streaming video - 1981

In this experimental short, Lutz Dammbeck relocates his Leipzig-based artists’ circle, known as the Herbstsalon (Autumn Salon), to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland. In 1929, La Sarraz was the site of a legendary congress held by leading European avant-garde filmmakers—including Sergei Eisenstein, Béla Balázs, Ivor Montagu, Hans Richter and Walter Ruttmann—who wished to create an independent cinema as a forum for discussing issues such as elitist thinking, the tastes of the masses and the differences between art and life. Not only avant-garde film history is at stake in HOMAGE A LA SARRAZ, however. So too are images and sounds from after 1933: Voices and visions of the Nazi past intermingle with the voices and (tele)visions of the (19...81) socialist present, suggesting certain analogies. Formally, the director experiments with over-painting and non-camera animation. HOMAGE TO LA SARRAZ and Dammbeck’s earlier experimental film, Metamorphoes I mark the filmic beginning of the artist’s long-term project the Herakles-Konzept (Hercules Concept).

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Genres
Education films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : DEFA Film Library 1981.
2019.
Language
German
Other Authors
Lutz Dammbeck (film director)
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).