Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und Anderen Utopien plot
For more than half a century, filmmaker Edgar Reitz, a signer of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narrative, has explored the rules and boundaries of cinema as a practitioner and theorist, always trying to break and expand it. in new ways. The documentary “Der Film Verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und Other Utopien” examines how the Geschichten vom Kübelkind, now rediscovered and restored, actually came about. Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge and other filmmakers and contemporaries look back on the circumstances that made this and other visionary projects possible 50 years ago. They are all concerned with the question: what does the future of moving images look like?