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07 November 2024 Bielefeld (Germany)
Film + Music Festival: Eroticon (Erotic)
Daniel Kothenschulte, piano - Lichtwerk
Program Info: On a stormy, rainy night, a fine gentleman from the big city finds a hospitable welcome at a train station in the provinces. While the old railway worker has to go to work, an erotically charged relationship develops between his daughter and the stranger. Back in the city, the man quickly forgot about the adventure - until one day the girl shows up at his door...
With a minimum of inter-titles, the Czech director Gustav Machatý found a subtle film language that creates the atmosphere of eroticism, seduction and desire through a series of symbolic images and cross-fades that he used in his no less notorious film "Extase" (1933, with Hedy Lamarr) led to the championship. »A young woman's step from girl to knowledgeable, from country to city, from sentimental gullibility to a more conscious, intelligent sensitivity. (…) What makes the film remarkable is its wealth of poetic detail, its bold, blatant eroticism, most evident in the opening sequence of the young woman's sexual initiation with its glowing whiteness and ecstatic convulsions." (Nick Bradshaw, Time Out Film Guide)
When it premiered in 1929, Erotikon caused a scandal that led to the censorship and mutilation of the original version by 22 minutes, but also to a cinematographic revolution that is still considered the basis of the connection between cinema and eroticism. The film brings together the aesthetics of the avant-garde with traditional narrative forms, thereby uniting a wide variety of artistic movements of the late 1920s, from classical modernism to art deco to surrealism. Only many years after its premiere could Machatý's work be restored in the form actually intended. The “film tamed by censorship” only truly lives up to its title when it is completed. A homage to the moment, to love in passing and yet also to longing.« (Daniel Kothenschulte)
As a regular guest at the FMF on the piano: Daniel Kothenschulte , film critic, film curator and silent film pianist.
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