Screening Date: Sun. Nov. 12, 2023
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Bryant Lake Bowl
Cost: $15
Run Time/Year/Country: 65min, 1927, Germany
Director: Walther Ruttmann

This film will feature a live score performed by Katie Condon

Co-presented by Racket, Bryant Lake Bowl

Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis is a shining example of the “city symphony” film genre. Through a series of images and visual impressions organized into five “acts”, filmmaker Walter Ruttman captures a day in the life of late 1920s Berlin. Ruttman’s footage also serves as a visual archive of pre-World War II Berlin, including imagery of many buildings that were destroyed in the war. Ruttman’s other most notable work was the audio montage Wochenende (Weekend). This groundbreaking work strongly influenced the development of an avant-garde musical subgenre called “musique concrète” and audio plays/radio drama.

Katie Condon

Katie Condon is a pianist, percussionist, teacher, and composer based in Minneapolis. Past performance work includes improvising live scores at the Trylon Cinema,  Minnesota Film Arts, the Heights Theater, and the Sound Unseen Film festival.   Other performance experience includes the composition several children's musical theater productions, work with Landmark Center, Zenon Dance Company, and Salon Saloon. During the day, she works for YourClassical MPR, MacPhail Center for Music, and the Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra.