Word: mise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SYBERBERG'S VISIONS of the Hitler phenomenon are tied together from part to part by the wanderings of Amelie Syberberg--the director's child--through the mise-en-scene. Cuddling a stuffed dog with swastika tags, hurrying from corpse to corpse, the rubble of the bombed Reichstag. She begins and ends each part of Our Hitler, and she leads us to Hitler's last stand, where the ventriloquist approaches his Hitler dummy and puts him on trial. "You are to blame for the successful imperialism of Moscow, Adolph Hitler. You are to blame for the eternal Jew, wandering, for homes...
...course it all takes patience, years of it--days of drawing the same tiny figures on the same background until the artist gives up and changes his mise-en-scene with the flick of his Bic. It is almost incomprehensible how many thousands of drawings must be transferred to celluloid for one short animated film. Michaelangelo might have preferred to paint the ceiling of Madison Square Garden rather than make an animated short...