Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

Original title: Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien

Release date: Saturday, 17th February 2018

Adult: No

Genres: Documentary

Duration: 1h 30min
Popularity: 0.703
Rate: 5.5 / 2 votes
Overview: For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break and extend in new ways. One example of his tireless search and research are the Geschichten vom Kübelkind, which he co-directed with Ula Stöckl in 1969/70, 22 absurdly funny, subversive and anarchistic short films of different lengths, which consciously oppose all conventions, with incredible success. The films remain unrivalled in their Dadaistic inventiveness.