Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique, 2016

Taro Shinoda and Uriel Barthélémi
Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique, 2016
Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation

Overview

Sharjah Art Foundation launches Re|sound, a biannual event for musical experimentation in dialogue with the medium of film. The foundation has invited three locally based musicians to prepare original live sets, which they will perform simultaneously with a projected film.

This first edition of Re|sound features Walter Ruttmann’s 1927 film Berlin: Symphony of a Great City and electronic experimental artists Astral LXXXII, João Menezes and Karim Sultan.

All Sharjah Art Foundation events are free and open to the public.

About the film

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
[original German title: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt]
Directed by Walter Ruttmann
Germany | 1927
65 minutes | Silent | Black & White

Chronicling daily life in Berlin following WWI, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is an innovative film that vividly depicts the historical atmosphere of the city. The rhythms and patterns of city life are portrayed through the use of montage, which juxtaposes images of the rich and the poor, animal and machine, to create a visually dramatic representation of the city in motion.

With the different energies accumulating as the day progresses, the German capital takes on a life of its own and itself becomes a character of the film—a harmoniously organic, industrious machine, unaware of the Great Depression and WWII on the horizon.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
1927

[original German title: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt]
Directed by Walter Ruttmann
65 minutes, silent, black & white
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