Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt

Stewart, Janet C.

doi:10.1353/oas.2013.0027

Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt

Stewart, Janet C.

Authors

Professor Janet Stewart janet.c.stewart@durham.ac.uk
Executive Dean

Abstract

Raúl Ruiz’s 2006 movie Klimt offers a sophisticated attempt to translate the visual art theory of Klimt’s Vienna into cinematic form. Reading this film alongside Ruiz’s reflections on film theory, this article explores how Ruiz employed key ideas from this period about ornament, spatiality and “surface effects,” reproducibility, and optic and haptic visuality in his search for a new cinematic language that might offer an alternative to mainstream cinema and the cinema of the “classical” avant-garde.

Citation

Stewart, J. C. (2013). Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt. Journal of Austrian studies, 46(2), 49-79. https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2013.0027

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jun 1, 2013
Deposit Date	Jan 10, 2014
Journal	Journal of Austrian Studies
Print ISSN	2165-669X
Electronic ISSN	2327-1809
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	46
Issue	2
Pages	49-79
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2013.0027