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Mahagonny
Mahagonny
7.0
/10
6 Ratings

MAHAGONNY

Directed by Harry Smith
United States, 1980
Avant-Garde, Animation

Synopsis

With Allen Ginsberg, Jonas Mekas, Patti Smith and images of Robert Mapplethorpe installations. “A mathematical analysis of Marcel Duchamp’s The Large Glass, expressed in terms of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.”

Synopsis

With Allen Ginsberg, Jonas Mekas, Patti Smith and images of Robert Mapplethorpe installations. “A mathematical analysis of Marcel Duchamp’s The Large Glass, expressed in terms of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.”