Berlin: Symphony of a Great City; Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis Film Poster
Date
1928
Credits
- Vladimir Stenberg 5
- Georgii Stenberg 5
- Walter Ruttmann Film Director
Format
- Poster 2401
Type of Work
- Finished work 5644
Locations Made
- Soviet Union 22
"This poster for the 1927 film Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, an important piece of nonnarrative experimental cinema directed by the German filmmaker Walter Ruttmann, exemplifies the success of the Stenbergs’ methods. The image of a skyscraper, an architectural form then unknown to citizens of Berlin or Moscow, and a low-flying airplane appear alongside a depiction of a male figure suspended in space. Part machine, part human, he has a camera lens for an eye, while his mechanical arms wield a pen and a typewriter. A keen observer and a powerful communicator, he may be a stand-in for the filmmaker, whose cinematic ode to a city portrays life in a seething modern metropolis from dawn to dusk."—https://www.moma.org/collection/works/7307
