Lola Montez in Berlin, 2015
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Duration 03:58 min
For this work, Gonzalez-Foerster draws on the 1955 film Lola Montez, in which its director Max Ophüls envisioned the life of a minor historical character mostly known for her amorous exploits with famous men. The film represents her as a woman caught in the exploitative machinery of a sensationalist public and poignantly visualizes this exploitation through the figure’s display as scandalous beast in a circus.
Photo © Andrea Rossetti