2022. 12. 18 Sun

Surrealist jaunt continues as we watch the 2005 restored version of Nosferatu from the original 1922 tinted nitrate print - which means the film is 100 years old. Few but effective colours (to show day and night, suspense and so on) with crisp outlines of glasses, mouldings, trees etc. The storytelling is surprisingly coherent with some nice details.

Now with a fresh provision we visit the anniversary show at the Scharf-Gerstenberg collection. Many interesting references that may well have influenced the conception of the movie like Max Klinger and Alfred Kubin & nostalgic objects such as the ticket from the premier at the Marble Hall, first pamphlets and so on. As we move into the collection we see more of Klinger and Kubin but also Ernst, Magritte, Schwitters etc. Fascinating was a small hologram at the end of a metal pole in the middle of the rotunda, with which a french artist animated the Angel of Hearth and Home. I think it was my first time seeing a real hologram in life & the effect was quite surreal.

Kept a mug from the WM at the Charlottenburg Palace. The brass band which was playing Deck the Halls was also on it. The mulled wine gave me a slight headache and I dozed off in the Sbahn on the way home.