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fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week agoAndres Veiel on the documentary "Riefenstahl"
Riefenstahl's archival estate reveals both groundbreaking cinematic innovation and persistent self-deception about knowledge and complicity in Nazi atrocities.
The year was 1964, and motorcycle clubs - packs of bikers with names like "Road Rebels" and "Argonauts" - were enjoying a surge in popularity in the U.S. Motorcyclists like Robertson gathered at rallies, where riders swerved around curved racetracks, their speeding bodies tilting toward the dusty ground. Blank went to the desert to film one of these rallies. He left with 45 minutes of footage but never finished making the film.