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EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions 2009
Casting a Shadow. Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film
January 29 to June 14, 2009
Alfred Hitchcock always presented himself as the sole author of his films and audiences may gain the impression that every formal detail, regardless how small, originated from his visionary creativity. In fact, Hitchcock was a deeply collaborative filmmaker, who worked intensively with actors, producers, camera teams, scriptwriters, costume designers, production designers and composers, in order to do justice to an audience’s expectations for an “Alfred Hitchcock film.” He described the creation of his films as a slow process, which came about “from discussion, arguments, random suggestions, casual, desultory talk and furious intellectual quarrels.”
Born outside of London on August 13, 1899 – just a few years after the invention of film – Alfred Hitchcock directed 53 movies over the course of six decades. He seamlessly made the transition from directing silent films to making sound films. Throughout his career, his movies embraced the possibilities of the medium. By always taking on new technical and artistic risks, he remained innovative up to an advanced age and became a seminal influence for generations of filmmakers. Hitchcock’s films were an expression of his personal vision, but this vision was a collective one, which the director and his collaborators jointly developed. An individual, artistic, signature style – the “Hitchcock Style” – arose from this working process.
Following an excursus about Hitchcock’s relationship to Berlin, the exhibition devotes itself to the various fields of work involved in film production. The most diverse documents are used to illustrate the individual developmental stages in a film’s realization – ranging from those related to content and the aesthetic conception to a film’s concrete scenic conversion.
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Hitchcock and Berlin
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Production Design
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Screenwriting
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Studio Production
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Cinematography
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Sound Design
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Costume Design
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