by Sandy Mandelberger, North American Editor
The Museum of Modern
Art in New York, in association with the Munich
Film Museum and the Goethe-Institut
New York, will present the first comprehensive North American retrospective
of German film, theater, and opera director Werner Schroeter. The
program, which runs from May 11 to June 11, includes 40 feature films and rare
early experimental shorts, very few of which have had theatrical releases in
the United States. Schroeter's filmic approach was extremely influential on his
German contemporaries Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rosa von
Praunheim, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Daniel Schmid, Ulrike Ottinger, Wim Wenders,
and Werner
Herzog. He also worked with an eclectic group of acting talents
including Isabelle Huppert, Bulle Ogier, Candy Darling, and his muse and
superstar Magdalena Montezuma, from whom he drew some of their greatest
performances. Inspired by the divas of silent-era cinema, Schroeter strove for an
authenticity of feeling through extreme emotions, reaching a point, he said, of
"musical and gestural excess." Mixing kitsch with high art, his
visual exercises were intoxicating to the eye, ear and the imagination of the
audience. For more information on the series, visit: www.moma.org
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