Lotte Reiniger's version of the Star of Betlehem story..

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The first time the screen exhales, you do not see the Star—you hear it: Barbara Ruick’s wordless cadence sliding through the orchestral hum like warm wax slipping down a wine bottle. Only then does the heavenly compass appear, a trembling snowflake of back-lit cardboard, and every subsequent silhouette feels magnetiz...


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Lotte Reiniger

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" The first time the screen exhales, you do not see the Star—you hear it: Barbara Ruick’s wordless cadence sliding through the orchestral hum like warm wax slipping down a wine bottle. Only then does the heavenly compass appear, a trembling snowflake of back-lit cardboard, and every subsequent silhouette feels magnetized to that tremor. Lotte Reiniger, high priestess of scissor-craft, never allows her figures to merely move; they migrate, refugees of negative space, across a sky inked so deeply ..."


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