Film Beyond Cinema The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

For over half a century the filmmaker Edgar Reitz one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration has explored as a practitioner and theoretician the rules and limits of cinema which he always seeks to break and extend in new ways One example of his tireless search and research are the Geschichten vom Kübelkind which he codirected with Ula Stöckl in 196970 22 absurdly funny subversive and anarchistic short films of different lengths which consciously oppose all conventions with incredible success The films remain unrivalled in their Dadaistic inventiveness