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Szeemann and Lenin Crossing the Alps

Rudolf Herz | Germany | 2020 | 19' | | IFFR 2020

In 2003, Harald Szeemann invited Rudolf Herz to an exhibition. Herz then challenged Szeemann to join him in the driver’s cabin during the long transport of his monumental sculptures, and to express his thoughts on Lenin. These recordings were lost for a while, but now make for a amusingly clever posthumous portrait of Szeemann (who died in 2005).

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Film details

Country of production
Germany
Year
2020
Festival edition
IFFR 2020
Length
19"
Medium/Format
DCP

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