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Silent films transport us into a unique and flickering world: the world of the first film with images in black and white and actors with great gestures and strong facial expressions, but still silent. Her camera angles capture what fascinated artists and audiences at the time - technology, architecture, people in all their diversity. The films equally showed comedy and reality. They documented current events and wrote flourishing stories. What is it about silent film that excites us, the moviegoers spoiled by technology and effects? Together with Murat Parlak, who applied his imagination and musical empathy to set the documentary film "Berlin - the Symphony of a Big City" by Walter Ruttmann from 1927 to music on the grand piano in a new composition, the guests of the Stadtstadel experienced urban life in Berlin in the 1920s in five chapters - an exciting trip of the time of our grandparents, for some, even great-grandparents. At the same time, the film shows the diversity of the metropolis across all levels of society, their professions, the poverty and the wealth of the city. With interesting editing, fast image and scene changes, the documentary film becomes an exciting day trip that begins early in the morning and ends with the nightly hustle and bustle of the glittering city. The eye and ear were highly challenged, especially for the pianist and composer Murat Parlak, whose composition only filled a post-it sheet as the basis for 90 minutes of "great cinema".
Photographer: Bernhard Simon