Fascinating Fascism

2023

Video installation

5 min, loop

Fascinating Fascism is a video essay assembled from fragments of films by Arnold Fanck and Leni Riefenstahl. Inspired by Susan Sontag's essay of the same title, the work examines how bodies, landscape, spectacle, and ideals of strength are organized within fascist aesthetics. By recombining these cinematic fragments, the video traces how this visual language was taking shape in German cinema before the Second World War.

Audience viewing Fascinating Fascism in the exhibition space — Installation view

Audience seated in front of the Fascinating Fascism projection — Installation view

Video still from Fascinating Fascism — Poster

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