Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1934): Nazism versus cinematic aesthetics

Abstract

The documentary Triumph of the Will of Leni Riefenstahl (1934) projects the antagonism between the horror of a doctrine and the essence of cinematographic art! How do you combine advertising and art, ideology and the camera, the horror and beauty? How does art dominate the horror and the horror require the collaboration of art? How do power, bloody madness and immanence, the creative thickness and the aesthetic route of the cinema cohabite? Is she Cain or is she Abel? How is the struggle between Nazism and cinematographic aesthetics? A journey through Triumph of the Will and not only...