DORIAN GRAY IN THE MIRROR OF THE YELLOW PRESS + BERLINFEVER – WOLF VOSTELL

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FRIDAY, 09.12.2016, 19:30

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DORIAN GRAY IN THE MIRROR OF THE YELLOW PRESS
(DORIAN GRAY IM SPIEGEL DER BOULEVARDPRESSE)

“Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him. Frau Dr. Mabuse, boss of an international media empire, has devised an unscrupulous plan for further expansion”, says Ulrike Ottinger in DORIAN GRAY, her epic, mesmerising and ultimately fun adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel, featuring former topmodel Verushka (BLOW UP) in an unforgettably gender-bending performance as Dorian Gray.
“From the panoramic, historical revue of the many faces of social prejudice and ostracism, Ottinger turns her attention to the mechanism of exclusion invested with the necessary power to make or break people. Frau Dr. Mabuse, whose illustrious precursor is Fritz Lang’s psychopathic, counterfeiting boss of the underworld, derives her power from the fabrication of reality based on the seduction of images and words. Her perfect object and victim is the Bauhaus-dandy Dorian, whose relation to Oscar Wilde’s prototype is as marginal as his relation to power. The fairy-tale framework of Ottinger’s feature compositions asserts itself strongly in this film as Dorian replaces the evil tycoon and becomes king of the media conglomerate.” (http://www.ulrikeottinger.com)

Ulrike Ottinger, D 1984, 150 min
Geraman with English subtitles

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BERLINFEVER – WOLF VOSTELL
(BERLINFIEBER – WOLF VOSTELL)

Ulrike Ottinger’s documentary short about a happening by German painter, installation artist, performer Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) that involved cars, an interactive audience and some very specific instructions: http://www.ulrikeottinger.com/index.php/text.337.html

Ulrike Ottinger, D 1973, 12 min

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