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Volker Via Lewandowsky «Report – Commentary on a Commentary – Titus»
Volker Via Lewandowsky, «Report – Commentary on a Commentary – Titus», 1987
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Categories: Film

Keywords: GDR | Surveillance


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 Volker Via Lewandowsky
«Report – Commentary on a Commentary – Titus»

The film's opening credits explicitly refers to Heiner Müller's 'Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome, ein Shakespeare-Kommentar' (Anatomy of Titus Fall of Rome, a Shakespeare Commentary). Lewandowsky's 'Report' is a collage on the eroticism of power. The film consists of 4-5 basic motifs that repeat themselves in cyclic montage. Television images of politicians, ecclesiastical dignitaries, the East German army, military combat jets, and wrecking balls are cut against each other, underlaid with martial industrial music. Again and again, an image is faded in of a woman exposing her breasts. Among the Auto-Perforation Artists, it was the Dresden artist Via Lewandowsky who, since 1985, primarily worked with film.