Stephan Graf von Bothmer interprets Berlin film in a completely new way at the CineTronium. Contemporary music with loops and beats blends with the 100-year-old images. Graf Bothmer resurrects the Berlin of the 1920s: intoxicating and overwhelming, a dance on a volcano. And a magnificent hymn to the city of Berlin.
Image gallery
Rich and poor, commerce and mercenary love, excess and labor, people and machines stand side by side. Far removed from all conventions of 1920s feature films, "Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis" is simultaneously a documentary, avant-garde, experiment, and vision.
The camera sees morning rolls on a baking tray and the glowing iron of the steelworks, shows people's feet striding to work, and loses itself in the traffic at Potsdamer Platz until the machines stop in the evening and neon signs cast their light on shopping streets, revues, theaters, and the evening gambling. [Walther Ruttmann, Germany 1927]
For the past 20 years, the DISTEL was a cinema in one of Europe's largest entertainment venues. In addition to moving images, Roman baths, an ice rink, cafés, and restaurants attracted visitors to the now listed building complex at Friedrichstraße station.
Additional information
Participating artists
Stephan Graf v. Bothmer
Dates
October 2025
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