Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt

Stewart, Janet C.

Abstract

Raúl Ruiz’s 2006 movie Klimt offers a sophisticated attempt to translate the visual art theory of Klimt’s Vienna into cinematic form. Reading this film alongside Ruiz’s reflections on film theory, this article explores how Ruiz employed key ideas from this period about ornament, spatiality and “surface effects,” reproducibility, and optic and haptic visuality in his search for a new cinematic language that might offer an alternative to mainstream cinema and the cinema of the “classical” avant-garde.

Citation

Stewart, J. C. (2013). Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt. Journal of Austrian studies, 46(2), 49-79. https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2013.0027

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Jan 10, 2014
• Journal: Journal of Austrian Studies
• Print ISSN: 2165-669X
• Electronic ISSN: 2327-1809
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 49-79
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2013.0027
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1473239