IDEAS, ARTISTS, ISSUES

City Scherzos & Huang Weikai’s Disorder

March 9th, 2011 by Colin Beckett

The “City Symphony” is not a coherent cinematic tradition, but a syncretic notion cradled at the intersection of three films made between 1926 and 1929: Alberto Cavalcanti’s Rien que les heures (1926), Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), and Dziga Vertov’s Man...