The Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts features Daniel Schwartz, "Between Sound and Silence."

The city symphony is typically considered a classic silent film genre. Notable examples include Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927) and Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929). This talk examines the underexplored sonic legacy of these films. The city symphony, I argue, is part of a wider tendency that sought to treat urban space as a sonic medium.

Daniel Schwartz is an associate professor in Russian and German Cinemas at McGill University.

This event is open to the public and part of AIR.

Arts Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) is a holistic research center and forum for creative and scholarly research across the arts that includes cutting-edge colloquia, exploratory seminars, lecture demonstrations, launches of research publications and creative works, reading groups, faculty talks, and stand-alone conferences initiated by the faculty of the Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts.