• SCREENINGLars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema Lars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema
  • SCREENINGAlexander Sokurov, Cinematic Chimera: Russian Ark / Image: courtesy of Seville Pictures Alexander Sokurov, Cinematic Chimera: Russian Ark / Image: courtesy of Seville Pictures
  • SCREENINGLars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema Lars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema
  • SCREENINGLars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema Lars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema
  • SCREENINGAlexander Sokurov, Cinematic Chimera: Russian Ark / Image: courtesy of Seville Pictures Alexander Sokurov, Cinematic Chimera: Russian Ark / Image: courtesy of Seville Pictures
  • SCREENINGLars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema Lars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema
  • SCREENINGLars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema Lars von Trier, Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark / Image: courtesy of New Line Cinema

Cinematic Chimera

Cinematic Chimera presents works that strive for a radical synthesis of artistic genres, reviving the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork. United by their integration of theater, dance, music, architecture, literature, and visual art, these films also realize the Gesamtkustwerk’s technological imperative by making use of advanced cinematic techniques.

Cinematic Chimera: Russian Ark

Thursday, October 28, 7:30 PM | Theater

Filmed as a 90-minute uninterrupted and uncut shot though the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russian Ark subtly interweaves dance, opera, theater, and music in a poetic meditation on the flow of history.

Cinematic Chimera: Dancer in the Dark

Thursday, November 18, 7:00 PM | Theater

An assault against escapism in film, Dancer in the Dark is an agonizing and unrelenting narrative of cruelty, hardship, and human nature, punctuated with sequences of song and dance.


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