Wednesday | November 15, 2000 9:45 pm

Ludwig Requiem for a Virgin King
(Ludwig–Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König)

Screening on Film

Directed by Hans Jürgen Syberberg.
With Harry Baer, Peter Kern, Ingrid Caven.
West Germany, 1972, 16mm, color, 134 min.
German with English subtitles.

In this wildly eclectic meditation on Ludwig the Second of Bavaria—mad visionary and aesthetic recluse—inconoclastic filmmaker and stage director Syberberg (Our Hitler, Parsifal) fuses a panoply of Germanic cultural and political allusions into a visually arresting, intellectually challenging film work. Constructed in twenty-eight tableaux, the film melds modern German history with Wagnerian stagecraft, high German art with Nazi kitsch, into a hybrid style that is Syberberg’s hallmark.

November 1 – December 12, 2000

New German Cinema: Alternative Visions and Utopian Designs

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil