Walter RuttmannBy Sian Williams

• 28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941

• German film director

• Studied painting and architecture

• Film career began in 1920’s- creating

‘absolute’ films

• Part of the avant-garde movement

Opus I (1921)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCXJayeT38

Berlin: Symphony of a great

city (1927)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxIWgnjAB4&feature=relmfu

Weekend: an urban landscapehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WCMgsik7s

Bibliography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WCMgsik7s

http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/ms127s/Ruttman05.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCXJayeT38

http://www.lafilmforum.org/index/Winter_2010/Entries/2010/1/7_Who_Was_Walter_Ruttman.html

http://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/lichtspiel/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ej84nN1WcE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin:_Symphony_of_a_Metropolis

http://www.jesseshapins.net/writings/JShapins_RuttmannWeekend_Jan2008.pdf