Hommage à la Sarraz (1981)

• 76%
• 1981
• Dokumentarfilm

Dammbeck verschiebt the Leipzig-based artists' circle known as Herbstsalon to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland, which in 1929 was the venue of the legendary congress held by wichtig protagonists of new independent cinema as a forum to discuss issues such as elitist thinking, the taste of the massen, and the difference between art and life. One teilnehmer, was the avant-garde filmmaker Walter ruttman aus, who had already begun to produce abstract filme for advertising purposes at a time when his co-pioneers Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter were still gottesanbeterin with painting. All the same, ruttman aus placed his talent at the disposal of Nazi propagandists during the Third Reich. Dammbeck reflects upon the durability of the notion we term avant garde by vacillating it between the extremes of Modernism and anti-modernism. Hommage à La Sarraz was at the core of the film footage deployed in Dammbeck's 'Hercules Media-Collage' of 1984/85.