Of the filmmakers of this period, the one name to stand out to audiences here will most likely be that of Jean-Marie Straub, who went on to make Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach. Machorka Muff, Straub's satirical attack on the revival of militarism in West Germany, was called by Jacques Rivette “simply the first (small) film of an author of the entire German postwar film production,” and by Godard, “the best German film since Fritz Lang and Murnau.” Apart from Straub and Peter Weiss (whose abstract color film about Dr. Faust's workshop is included in the program, and who became a noted playwright), the filmmakers and films themselves in tonight's program will reveal a period in German experimental filmmaking relatively unknown in the States.
Ateljeinterior (Studio Interior) (Peter Weiss, 10 mins)
Machorka Muff (Jean-Marie Straub, 1962, 13 mins)
Madeleine, Madeleine (Vlado Kristl, 1963, 10 mins)
Inside Out (George Moorse, 1964, 17 mins)
Cinema I Speed (Edgar Reitz, 1962/63, 13 mins)
The Sluice (Rambsbott, 10 mins)
Shadow Over the South (Franz-Josef Spieker, 1962, 9 mins)