In the 1920s Horacio Coppola studied modern languages, photography and film, set up the first cinema club in Buenos Aires, and travelled to Italy, France, Spain and Germany, where he trained with the Bauhaus photographer Walter Peterhans. After visiting Vienna, Budapest and Prague, still hotbeds of secessionist art, Coppola returned to Berlin and made the experimental film Traum (Dream, 1933) with the theatre director Walter Auerbach, a nice short influenced by the French and German surrealists.
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Is this for you? If you want a straightforward story, look elsewhere. You will probably hate this if you need dialogue, or, you know, things that make logical sense. But if you're the type who likes to stare at 1930s art house experiments while drinking cold coffee at 2 AM, this is exactly the right kind of weird. Tra...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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"Is this for you? If you want a straightforward story, look elsewhere. You will probably hate this if you need dialogue, or, you know, things that make logical sense. But if you're the type who likes to stare at 1930s art house experiments while drinking cold coffee at 2 AM, this is exactly the right kind of weird. Traum feels like it was put together in a basement while the world outside was getting ready to change forever. It’s got that jittery, sharp energy you see in old European surrealist ..."
