


There are films you watch; then there are films that watch you. Fasching belongs to the latter tribe—an unblinking kohl-rimmed eye that follows you long after the final iris-in. In the detritus of 1919 Berlin, carnival was not mere revelry but a scalpel sliced across the gangrenous body politic. Directors Fanny Carls...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Frederic Zelnik

Frederic Zelnik
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" There are films you watch; then there are films that watch you. Fasching belongs to the latter tribe—an unblinking kohl-rimmed eye that follows you long after the final iris-in. In the detritus of 1919 Berlin, carnival was not mere revelry but a scalpel sliced across the gangrenous body politic. Directors Fanny Carlsen and Paul Oskar Höcker understood this innately: their camera glides through confetti like a coroner’s hand through viscera, cataloguing every sequin of hope pinned to the lapel ..."
Fanny Carlsen, Paul Oskar Höcker
Germany

