A series of documentary films about the challenges and triumphs met by our city’s older residents. Films made my UWM students.
Call (414) 289-5973 to register
10am – St.John’s On the Lake
1840 North Prospect Avenue
presented LCT: Let’s Take Care – Connecting Caring Communities
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UWM Union Theater
7pm *FREE*
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
(Walter Ruttmann, Germany, 106 min., 16mm 1927)
“During the many years of my movement studies drawn from abstract means, I have never been able to escape the urge to create from living materials, from the millions of movement-related energies that actually exist in the organism of the big city, a film symphony”- Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttman's Berlin : Symphony of a Great City celebrates it 80 th anniversary this year. The progenitor of the “city symphony” form, Berlin documents the city from early morning to midnight, exploring a cross section of the metropolis and its citizens. Through innovative cinematography and rhythmic montage, Ruttman created a grand, enduring work of cinema, allowing viewers to experience the velocity of a city in the throes of modernity.
The film is silent with an accompanying score performed by MiLO, the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra.
