MoMA Presents: Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares 11/17

The Museum of Modern Art, in association with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden and in cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, presents Weimar Cinema, 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares, the most comprehensive exhibition surveying the extraordinarily fertile and influential period in German filmmaking between the two world wars. It was during this period that film matured from a silent, visually expressive art into one circumscribed yet enlivened by language, music and sound effects. This four-month series includes 75 feature-length films and 6 shorts-a mix of classic films and many motion pictures unseen since the 1930s-and opens with the newly discovered film Ins Blaue Hinein (Into the Blue) (1929), by Eugene Schüfftan, the special effects artist and master cinematographer originally renowned for his work on Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927). Running November 17, 2010 through March 7, 2011, Weimar Cinema is augmented by an exhibition of posters and photographs of Weimar filmmaking in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1 Lobby Galleries and an illustrated publication, which includes an extensive filmography supplemented by German criticism and essays by leading scholars of the period.

The film portion of the exhibition is organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, and Eva Orbanz, Senior Curator, Special Projects, Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen. The gallery exhibition is organized by Ronald S. Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, with Laurence Kardish and Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

Four-Month Exhibition Includes Over 80 Films, Many Rare, a Selection of Original Weimar Movie Posters, and the Release of New Publication

Weimar Cinema, 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares
November 17, 2010-March 7, 2011
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters